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For their final project in a natural capital course, students Megan Chen and Zoe Rehnborg created a “zine” on the many values of public parks.
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EARTHSYS 177: Environmental Storytelling teaches students to translate research into stories that reach beyond Stanford’s campus – starting with a farm 25 miles away in Fremont.
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Diego Gutierrez, Earth Systems '25, is betting on a humble legume to help rebuild the island's fragile food system – starting in backyard farms.
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Living Laboratory for Sustainability, offered in collaboration with the Doerr School of Sustainability, immerses students in the university’s real-world energy, water, waste, land management, and food systems.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Anushka Vijay, a senior who built both academic knowledge and practical experience through the Environmental and Policy Internship (EPIC) program.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos integrated academic insight with real-world applications as a Forum for Undergraduate Environmental Leadership (FUEL) fellow focused on sustainability of agriculture and dairy in California.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Alice Heiman, a junior who bridged academic knowledge and real-world practice through the Mentoring Undergraduates in Interdisciplinary Research (MUIR) program.
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Stanford’s EPS 5 field course immerses students in the geological history of the Bay Area through a two-day excursion to ancient beaches, landslides, and earthquake sites, revealing the many ways people are tied to Earth’s shifting landscape.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Woods Institute for the Environment. We talk with Evan Ludington, a senior who who cultivated academic and practical expertise through the Environmental and Policy Internship (EPIC) program.
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Ninety years of tidepool observations in Monterey Bay have taught Stanford researchers about climate change impacts on the ocean and the evolution of science.
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Stanford students are getting a head start on careers with education and leadership programs offered by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. In the first of a new student spotlight series, we talk with Aria Grossman, a junior who gained valuable research and on-the-job experience through the Mentoring Undergraduates in Interdisciplinary Research (MUIR) program.
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A culmination of the efforts of the Undergraduate Sustainability Education Working Group, a new report recommends a multifaceted approach to integrate sustainability-related learning across the undergraduate curriculum and support students with varying motivations and needs.
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Stanford researchers are working to create a unique, interdisciplinary curriculum to help students better understand both the physical and biological ocean systems and the human relationship with them.
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Since its founding two decades ago, the Bill Lane Center has become a thriving community of students and researchers who examine the American West in all its complexities.
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The introductory course brings together passionate alums and seasoned lecturers to explore how Earth works and the ways humans impact it, with a focus on climate change, oceans, sustainable food, energy science, and more.
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Aboard the same fishing vessel Steinbeck used for his 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition, undergraduates studied science and literature while gaining a deeper appreciation for the ocean.
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A new working group will make recommendations for how every Stanford undergraduate can participate in sustainability education, whether through courses, degree programs, or extracurricular experiences.
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In two courses during winter and spring quarters, student groups developed policy reports with the goal of informing government decisions about how to incorporate fisheries and aquaculture into Indonesia’s national development strategy.
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The culminating project for the design-build seminar CEE32H: Responsive Structures is a 23-foot-high outdoor contemplation space installed in front of the Anderson Collection.
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The alliance equips future architects, engineers, and builders with the necessary tools and empathy to address the challenges of managing responsible construction projects.
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Two courses in the SUSTAIN 101 series use nontraditional approaches to teach complex climate data and community-focused sustainable design.
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A Bing Overseas Studies Program summer global seminar highlights gifts of global significance forged from the ancient interplay between indigenous communities and local ecosystems.
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A spring-quarter course taught by Stanford professors William Barnett and Chris Field asked students to consider solutions to global predicaments.
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With science fiction as inspiration, James Jones encouraged students in the course Imagining Adaptive Societies to imagine a future where people thrive in a sustainable and equitable world.
