The Stanford Sustainability Accelerator speeds the translation of research into scalable technology and policy solutions to address urgent global sustainability challenges.
About us
Converting sustainability challenges into opportunities
Building a sustainable, prosperous future requires innovations in policy, markets, business, and technology. Based in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the Accelerator identifies, funds, and supports projects with transformative potential, positioning them to scale beyond Stanford within three years.
Flagships
The Accelerator selects project teams led by Stanford faculty and provides them with funding, mentorship, and connections to experts outside the university. Each project team joins a cohort working toward one or more ambitious sustainability targets, or “flagship destinations,” where the Accelerator has identified high potential for impact on a global scale.
Projects
The Accelerator currently supports over 90 interdisciplinary projects, helping teams de-risk ideas, secure advisors across and beyond campus, and connect with investors, practitioners, and other scaling partners.
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Farmers in Senegal are welcoming fish into their rice paddies. A team supported by the Accelerator hopes the fish will fertilize the crop, serve as a source of food, and eat the snails that carry parasitic worms.
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Stanford researchers supported in part by the Accelerator developed an AI tool that creates novel burger recipes optimized for individual preferences. The implications for science go well beyond food.
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The chronic disease schistosomiasis wreaks havoc on more than 220 million people around the world. New research shows how introducing fish into rice fields could help reduce disease incidence and poverty in a hot spot for the disease
