Works
September 16, 2017 | Image Gallery
Sophomore college students toured the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, one of the seven civil engineering wonders of the U.S., according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
May 18, 2017 | Video
Presentations from the ArtsWest symposium at Stanford University: the world seemed on the brink of catastrophe when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Today we are confronted with our own cataclysmic moment in time.
May 15, 2017 | Video
A keynote address opening the conference "World War II and the West It Wrought"</a> at Stanford University. The author and New York Times columnist Timothy Egan spoke about the role the war played in shaping the contemporary American West.
April 28, 2017 | Video
Attendees and organizers talk about the vital conversations about the future of rural western health and health care that took place in Santa Fe at the Eccles Family Rural West Conference on March 23-25, 2017. Full video of the conference.
April 21, 2017 | Video
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada addressed an audience of Stanford students, faculty, and staff on April 18, 2017.
March 27, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
A wet winter is easing water strains in the Southwest, but the longer-term outlook is generally hotter and drier. States now have that in mind in water bargaining.
March 14, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
Electric utilities are seeking a new power mix, as shifts in precipitation diminish the role that dams have long played for western states.
March 11, 2017 | Report
Anakaren Cervantes, Ryan Gaertner, Kaya McRuer, Alex Robinson, Caleb Smith
The following memorandum presents five key potential financing strategies for a north-south bicycle/pedestrian path connecting the member cities of the Managers’ Mobility Partnership or MMP (Redwood City, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Mountain View).
March 3, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
In the Southwest and beyond, irrigation technology and other steps such as planting 'cover crops' to enrich the soil are making a difference.
March 1, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
The second article in a series on solving water challenges in the American West.
February 23, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
With climate change affecting water supplies already strained by urban growth, states in the Colorado River basin are being forced to innovate and adapt.
February 15, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
Safety concerns at the Oroville Dam center on engineering and maintenance. But dams also face new challenges in managing water in an era when rains can be heavier, and less precipitation is falling as snow.
February 10, 2017 | Video
At the Knight-Risser Prize Symposium on Jan. 25, Ian James, an environment reporter for the Palm Springs based Desert Sun, talked about a growing crisis in groundwater supplies.
February 10, 2017 | Video
Water may be one of the most critical environmental issues for reporters to cover in years to come, said western water experts and journalists at the 2017 Knight-Risser Prize Symposium at Stanford University.
January 19, 2017 | Article
Tammy Frisby
For the fourth January in a row, we asked Californians to reflect on the state’s government, public policy, and politics, and what they think a Trump administration could mean for the Golden State.
January 19, 2017 | Audio
Bruce Cain and the Hoover Institution's Bill Whalen look at the contentious relationship between Donald Trump and California and analyze a Hoover Golden State Poll that gauged Californians’ attitudes toward various aspects of the Trump agenda.
December 22, 2016 | Book
This analysis of governmental roles in water markets, alongside qualitative studies of California and Spain, offers valuable guidance to understand environmental markets and the challenges presented by water management in drought-prone regions.
December 14, 2016 | Video
December 11, 2016 | Report
Casey Danielson, Matthew Decker, Sarah Hirshorn, Gabriella Johnson, Mark Verso
This report proposes two alternatives for a North-South (N-S) central corridor bikeway in the Mid-Peninsula area that promotes cross-community integration and increased bike mode share.
November 10, 2016 | Video
What does this historic election mean for democratic norms and institutions in America? A post-election panel discussion with Stanford political scientists and legal analysts.
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