Introduction Students for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS) is a project-based student group concerned with addressing sustainability in all its forms on Stanford’s campus, with sub-groups dedicated to water, waste, climate, and environmental justice issues. With President Obama set to approve or reject the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline by [...]

Palo Alto, arguably one of the most progressive cities in the United States, still uses a dirty incinerator to destroy its sewage sludge.  On Tuesday, Palo Alto voters have the opportunity to vote for a ballot initiative that will clear the road for the construction of a new, cleaner waste [...]

This post is a continuation of a series on Dwell on Design.  To view the preceding entry, click here. My last post focused on products on the showroom floor of the Dwell event.  But in addition to the booths on display, the exhibition included a program of panel speakers who [...]

Imagine waking up one morning to discover that the entire human race had vanished overnight. How long would it take for all traces of mankind to disappear? This is the scenario journalist Alan Weisman explored in his book The World Without Us (2007) which became a surprise best seller. Last [...]

I am an environmentalist. I am also a feminist. As I read the description for Carolyn Merchant’s talk on ecofeminism, I thought I might be an ecofeminist as well.  Interested—as I usually am by the joining of “isms”—I went to hear Merchant’s lecture titled “Capitalism and Sustainability are Fundamentally Incompatible?” [...]