Visiting Speaker and Documentary Film Sally Smith Greenspan of The Enterprise Foundation,  New York + “Designing Healthy Communities”  Dr Richard Jackson, MD, Chair of UCLA’s School of Environment and Public Health.  New documentary film. Thursday February 16, 2:15-4:05 PM.  Location:  Meyer Forum 124. Urban Studies students, faculty and Program friends [...]

Welcome to SUSSingSustainability@Stanford, a blog coordinated by the Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars (SUSS).  This is our first blog post, so a few words of explanation are in order. SUSS is an initiative coordinated by Mark Feldman and Kimberly Moekle and sponsored by the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) and the [...]

It is Wednesday evening, a problem set is due at 11 tomorrow. Time to buckle down. The life of a Stanford student, or rather, the life of anyone these days, is hectic. Your light is on. You are not thinking about it, but there is a power plant somewhere, supplying [...]

While the Stanford campus teems with bikes there’s one thing that always saddens me: seeing row upon row of bicycles exposed to the winter rains.  This isn’t simply an anthropomorphic projection, like worrying about birds getting cold in the winter.  Rather this is a real if admittedly quirky environmental concern. [...]