If you are concerned about sustainability, love the outdoors, and would like to meet awesome alumni and other amazing Stanford Students then consider working this summer at Stanford Sierra Camp. On the shores of Fallen Leaf Lake, just south of Lake Tahoe, Stanford Sierra Camp is an idyllic camp for Stanford alumni [...]

In the summer of 1869 John Muir ventured into the Sierra Nevada. While helping a shepherd and his flock reach the headwaters of the Merced River, Muir recorded his daily activities. He later compiled these entries to create My First Summer in the Sierra. Each entry reveals Muir’s conversion experience [...]

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 [...]

This is the sixth of Sabrina Bedford’s posts about her arts internship in Houston, Texas and seventh of her columns for the Stanford Arts Review. This post is not explicitly about environmental sustainability, but takes us into social sustainability through the arts. Sabrina has been working with Dan Phillips – [...]

This is the fifth of Sabrina Bedford’s posts about her arts internship in Houston, Texas and sixth of her columns for the Stanford Arts Review. Sabrina has been working with Dan Phillips – an artist, a builder of houses largely made out of recycled and salvaged materials, and the founder [...]

Last week, my roommate invited me to a lecture about constructing livable spaces out of storage units. Of course the image that came to my mind involved a large lecture room, with rows of uncomfortable seats and retractable desks and possibly a long slide-show with insane pictures. I should have [...]