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Big Earth Hackathon Wildland Fire Challenge (CEE 265H, EARTH 165H, EARTH 265H)

Participate in Stanford's Big Earth Hackathon challenge on wildland fires by finding an innovative solution to wildland fire prediction, prevention, and/or evacuation. Students work in self-organized diverse teams of 2-4 students in weeks 1-8, with a final presentation of the work on...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring
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Sustainable Innovation for Disaster Resilience (SUSTAIN 101D)

Disaster resilience embodies two concepts: adaptation and recovery. As climate change exacerbates the occurrence and intensity of environmental disasters, innovators and decision makers must collaborate to help vulnerable communities and the build environment adapt to and recover from shocks and stresses in a sustainable way without compromising long-term development.
  • Entrepreneurship: Partial Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall
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Leading Organizational Change for Sustainability (SUSTAIN 120)

The Living Lab Fellowship in campus sustainability brings together a talented group of advanced undergraduates to doctoral-level students to make meaningful progress toward achieving Stanford University's operational sustainability goals. Leading Organizational Change is a two-unit, one-quarter elective course offered Autumn quarter. The course constitutes the academic component of the Living Lab Fellowship Program. This course is only open to students who have applied and been accepted to the Living Lab Fellowship Program
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Living Lab Fellowship Program for Sustainability

The Living Laboratory Fellowship Program for Sustainability provides Stanford students real-world sustainability leadership and project management opportunities that meaningfully advance Stanford’s operational sustainability goals. Offered in partnership with the LBRE Office of Sustainability, the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, the program collaborates widely with schools, departments, and operational units across Stanford, including the O'Donohue Family Educational Farm, Residential & Dining Enterprises, and Business Affairs.
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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Integrative Design, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital for Sustainability (SUST 234)

This course aims to empower students with knowledge, orientations, and skills to evaluate pressing sustainability challenges and design entrepreneurial solutions that advance sustainability and deliver lasting positive change. Through case studies, frameworks, and hands-on projects, students learn about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of start-ups and venture capital, nonprofits and philanthropy, and other business models that can achieve co-benefits and sustainable outcomes....
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring
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Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions (COLLEGE 106)

The course will survey our planet's greatest sustainability challenges, and some of the possible ways that humankind might overcome each. The course material will include introductory-level science, social science, and business studies material, and...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP)

The Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP) is intended to provide next stage funding (up to $500k) to PIs to move existing interdisciplinary environmental research projects toward actual solutions implemented by public stakeholders and private market actors. To be considered, projects should demonstrate both significant progress in identifying solutions and strong potential by private market or public end users...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Environmental Venture Projects (EVP)

The Stanford Woods Institute EVP program provides seed grants from $10,000 to $200,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing problems of the environment and sustainability. Research projects are evaluated for their intellectual merit, potential to solve critical problems, the integration of the disciplinary strengths...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Other

Big Ideas for Oceans

This new program provides seed grants totaling from $10,000 to $150,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to promote new understanding of ocean processes and marine life, and to inform solutions for ocean health and sustainability...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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Policy Practicum: Structuring Effective Carbon Markets (LAW 809B)

This policy lab project builds on Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center (STC) and Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) research and analysis on structuring effective carbon markets. It leverages related work and resources on campus, and engages with clients in the US government working to design effective US and International carbon markets...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring

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