A new project housed at VAIL is using a process similar to lightning that makes fertilizer as nature does; combining electricity, water and air to dissolve nitrates in water. The clean fertilizer is customizable and the unit can operate on site at the farm which reduces labor and transportation costs.
Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School find that more and more established companies are overcoming the obstacles to innovation with corporate explorers - managers who build new and disruptive businesses inside their companies.
In a recent paper, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Charles Jones argues that excessive taxation reduces incentives to develop new ventures and respond to promising ideas, which ultimately makes everyone-not only those with higher incomes-poorer.
Students in Stanford's Hacking for Climate and Sustainability class are seeking solutions to complex climate and sustainability challenges through deep analysis, innovative thinking, and careful collaboration with those most affected.
Panelists in the Advancing Technology for a Sustainable Planet workshop examined how AI can help advance environmental solutions, improve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting, and also better understand AI’s impact on the environment.
In this Future of Everything episode, computer science professor Omar Reingold explains how we can create definitions of fairness that can be incorporated into computer algorithms.
Chemists from Stanford, UC-Berkeley and Texas A&M, have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and possibly vehicles. An inexpensive polymer called melamine is used as a carbon capture material which could potentially be scaled down to capture emissions from movable sources.
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is awarding $1.65 million to 10 innovative projects. One of the projects funded is mitigating a source of lead in South Asia - informal recycling of lead acid batteries from 3-wheeled EVs. The trial will measure the project's effect on lead emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, profits and livelihoods.
Stanford researchers work to solve the mysteries of battery degradation, reveal the true environmental toll of battery production and disposal, and improve the performance of next generation batteries.
In this interview, Londa Schiebinger, international expert on gender in science and technology discusses tools she developed to help achieve inclusive design, and her recommendations for making inclusive design a part of the product development process.
