Early on the morning of June 18th before the heat had set in, Zach Yohannes arrived at the old cold storage facility on his family’s farm near Visalia, California. This large building once stored and refrigerated produce, but since the farm has moved its packing elsewhere and it has been [...]
Americans drive a lot. In fact, we drive twice as much as Europeans (Shell, 40). This disparity is attributed to urban sprawl, the dominant US land development practice of the last century. The idea behind urban sprawl is sustained growth away from a city center into cheaper rural land. This created [...]
Stanford news has recently run two stories on possible new ways of mitigating carbon dioxide. One explains the work of Jennifer Wilcox who co-authored a recent paper concluding that chemically scrubbing carbon from our atmosphere, while feasible, is simply too expensive. The other, is more optimistic, recounting Sally Benson’s research on sequestering [...]
If you’d asked me four years ago what an environmentalist’s job is, I would have been quick to tell you that their main responsibility is preserving nature. Environmentalists are charged with the noble task of keeping the Sierra Nevada, the Amazon rainforest, and countless other natural landforms in the world, [...]
A few months ago, I posted a picture of a mulberry leaf I had found on Flickr to Urbanter, the student blog of Stanford’s Program on Urban Studies. The Flickr user, mpclemens, called his picture “Mulberry Leaf #4” and wrote, “This reminds me of an aerial map of my suburban [...]
Lecturer Sara Brownell and assistant professor of biology Tadashi Fukami were part of an ambitious overhaul of Stanford’s core biology lab courses. Students learn more about research and experimental methods when they pursue more open-ended field research, rather than doing cookbook style lab work. You can read more about the [...]
