Center News and Notes

  • Happenings
On Friday, Feb. 16 at 8:00 a.m., Bill Lane Center Associate Director Kate Gibson joined Jon Cousins on KZSU's "The Great British Breakfast," a morning show featuring interviews with various accomplished members of the Stanford community.
A charged partnership between the Bill Lane Center and the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development plans to speed up the build-out of EV charging stations by addressing permitting delays.
Demand for lithium and other metals like cobalt, copper and nickel is soaring as the world increases manufacturing of green energy components like batteries and solar panels. But can these minerals, situated on Indigenous lands, be mined without…

A tram approaches a stop near the Genève-Cornavin railway station in Switzerland. Photo by Tim Adams via Flickr.

 

  • Center News
  • Happenings
The Bill Lane Center co-hosted a recent event by Seamless Bay Area during which transit leaders from the South Bay presented findings from studying Switzerland's famously efficient public transit system.
  • & the West
Regenerative ranching, a practice that began at least two decades ago, is gaining popularity in the West. Its goal is to "create the marriage between livestock production and grass production,” according to rancher Bill Milton, in an attempt to mend…