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Stanford’s Sustainability Accelerator convened more than 300 researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and alumni on campus to learn about greenhouse gas removal and how 18 teams are seeking to enable it on a large scale. Explore highlights from the event.
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Ten new postdoctoral scholars will expand and enrich the range of topics for potentially high-impact, scalable energy research in this unique postdoctoral program.
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Environmental challenges, such as preparing for extreme weather and ensuring access to clean water, are too complex for one discipline to solve. As part of a unique program, Stanford students with expertise from fields as diverse as engineering, biology, business, and law. are learning how to make policy impacts.
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As the Stanford-based Natural Capital Project prepares to roll out new tools and features in the coming months, software team lead Doug Denu shares about his background, role, and what’s next for InVEST.
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A new centralized package system aims to streamline and address sustainability concerns regarding package delivery on campus. The system was informed by research from Yuan Molly Tian, a Sustainable Stanford Fellow who studied package trash and emissions on campus.
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Rising electricity use is normally very welcome, reflecting economic growth, but it could overwhelm the United States’ sclerotic power grid.
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Ten new grants from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will support knowledge-driven fundamental research that deepens our understanding of Earth, climate, and society.
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Stanford marine scientists are using innovative projects to broaden the public’s appreciation for the ocean and inspire action to protect it.
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Bits & Watts, a Precourt Institute for Energy initiative, has launched a new research effort on powering artificial intelligence and machine learning sustainably.
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In a new program from Stanford University and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, business executives and senior leaders will gain insight into the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability to drive business value.
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The 2024 Environmental Venture Projects and Realizing Environmental Innovation Program grants foster interdisciplinary solutions.
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The new interdisciplinary hub seeks to address the interconnected challenges of health and environmental sustainability.
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Amid growing pressure to report on nature-related risks and impacts, an open-source footprinting tool offers a scientific and transparent approach.
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences-based Natural Capital Project researcher discusses efforts to assess the effects of urban nature on mental health and wellbeing.
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The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment marks two decades of transformative impact. The institute’s innovative approach to bringing together experts from disparate fields to tackle pressing environmental challenges has redefined the relationship between science, policy, and real-world solutions.
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The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment recently hosted a first-of-its-kind “boot camp” in which congressional staffers got a crash course from experts in climate, forestry, fire science, utilities, insurance, and other wildfire-related topics.
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The energy-centered postdoctoral research program is nurturing a global community of future leaders to realize sustainable, affordable, secure energy for the world.
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The Sustainability Accelerator’s new postdoctoral fellowship program kicks off fall quarter with four entrepreneurial fellows who will pursue individual research on greenhouse gas removal.
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Through programs offered by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, undergraduate students from Stanford and institutions across the U.S. worked on projects that tackled pressing environmental challenges and advanced fundamental knowledge about our planet. Here’s an inside look at their experiences.
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New Stanford program works to better understand connections between the environment and human health, and to pursue ecological solutions to public health challenges.
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Seed grants awarded under the Big Ideas for Oceans program will enable work on high-risk, potentially high-reward projects designed to conserve the ocean and address climate change.
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The center’s move from the Precourt Institute for Energy will enable TomKat-funded student projects to compete for space and funding in the Accelerator, while the Accelerator will benefit from TomKat’s experience empowering students, researchers, and entrepreneurs to develop and launch solutions to energy and sustainability problems.
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Sculptor and installation artist Mark Baugh-Sasaki will work with ocean scholars as the first visiting artist in a new Stanford program exploring how art and science can join forces to advance sustainability.
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The first group of scholars supported under the new Sustainability Accelerator Fellowship program will focus on the challenge of removing billions of tons of greenhouse gases annually from Earth’s atmosphere by the middle of this century.
