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Sustainability science and practice master's student Kaitlyn Sanchez spent the summer with Auckland Council, a local government body in New Zealand, as part of an internship through the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. She researched approaches to economic development within a changing climate and environment while learning about climate issues and initiatives in the region.
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Join us on Oct. 27 to hear James C. Liao, president of Academia Sinica, discuss Taiwan's role in entrepreneurship and sustainability in the 21st century.
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Stanford economist Shanjun Li models how policy choices in the U.S., China, and around the world shape the energy transition and give rise to clean energy leaders.
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The chemical engineering professor was granted the award for his advances in recovering valuable materials from wastewater.
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Delta Electronics leader Yancey Hai and energy efficiency expert Amory Lovins shared advice for companies, countries, and students in Stanford’s Big Ideas in Sustainability series.
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Kiara Fufunan, a student intern at the Natural Capital Project, shares what she has learned about science communication and her aim to pass along her love of environmental science as she embarks on her next chapter.
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Wildfires are threatening lives, infrastructure, and public health systems across the West. Bay Area fire management officials are implementing effective prevention measures – from prescribed burns to home-hardening rebate programs – yet crucial research gaps remain.
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Founded by two Stanford postdoctoral scholars and supported by an Innovation Transfer Grant from the TomKat Center, startup Electroflow Technologies converts abundant saltwater brines in the U.S. into a key material needed for batteries.
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A decade ago, the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm was established after years of student advocacy. Today, it thrives as a hub for teaching, research, and campus life.
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Eva Scheller designs and plans spacecraft instruments, including Mars rovers and satellites, and analyzes the data to understand the formation, evolution, and habitability of planetary bodies.
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Political science and economics undergraduate student George Hasnah spent the summer at Jacobs as part of an internship through the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Jacobs is a global engineering and professional services firm focused on delivering sustainable solutions for industrial, commercial, and governmental clients.
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The 2025 recipients of the Natural Capital Young Leaders Prize recently came to Stanford from across the globe to share their stories, inspiration, and how nature and community are the threads connecting it all.
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The TomKat Center’s Innovation Transfer Program has awarded grants to 12 new Stanford teams creating technologies and business that address sustainability challenges.
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With early support from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Matías Castillo, MBA/MS ’20, Juan Cristóbal Ruiz-Tagle, and Cristian Bartolomé, MS '19 co-founded Pulsar to help manufacturers to operate smarter with quality data.
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Jennifer Burney combines physics, economics, and on-the-ground data to understand how practical, local solutions and better policies can help improve access to food, support farmers, and drive down planet-warming emissions.
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Stanford marine biologist Steve Palumbi uses fundamental science to find practical solutions to pressing questions about ocean life and its future. His lab’s work on the effects of heat waves on marine life has implications for the environment, economies, health, and culture.
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At a recent conference, investors, entrepreneurs, and academics convened to discuss challenges and strategies for scaling innovation in sustainability.
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At the Sustainability Conference on Capital Finance co-sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, researchers examined the changing nature of sustainability investments, insurance markets, and government incentives.
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Four hundred experts in policy, academia, business, and science met to explore greater collaboration between the U.S. and Southeast Asia to fulfill the fast-growing region’s competing promises of economic growth and greater sustainability.
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Stanford-led industry roundtables in Washington D.C. highlighted the urgency in addressing China’s 95% control of global battery-grade graphite supply by reducing the costs of U.S. graphite manufacturing.
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Ettore Biondi uses fiber sensing technologies and dense seismic sensor networks to understand the underlying mechanisms and subsurface structures driving geophysical processes such as volcanic system dynamics and earthquake physics.
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The latest awards enable development and implementation of cross-disciplinary projects tackling real-world sustainability challenges in food and agriculture, industry, water, electricity, and biology.
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Six students have received fellowships to help translate their research into solutions that address real world energy and environmental challenges.
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This year’s Big Ideas for Oceans seed grants support research on seagrass ecosystems, carbon dioxide in seawater, kelp for climate mitigation, and women’s experiences working in fisheries and aquaculture.
