STANFORD Magazine: SAGE

Get answers to your sustainability questions from SAGE, a Stanford project dedicated to providing sound environmental advice and information to alumni and other members of the Stanford community. Students from environmental communications course IPER 200 look forward to answering your questions—and bridging the gap between scientific understanding and public awareness. More about SAGE »

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We're sorry to say that, due to a technical glitch, questions submitted to SAGE over the summer went astray. If you sent a question before September 5, please accept our apologies for the inconvenience, and resubmit your question below. The fall-quarter SAGE students are standing by, ready and eager to provide responses.

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Given home heating choices of electric heat generated by a natural gas-fired power plant, propane, or wood burning in a woodstove (no live trees cut, all downed wood), which option creates the least total environmental damage?

Asked by Barbara James
Why can't we install windmills in our backyards and trap the power individually for our personal use? Is the limitation how to store it and feed it into my electrical circuits, or what? Is it cost, or sound pollution to my neighbors, or has a household system just not been developed yet?

Asked by Maria Schmidt
Is there a link between our plastic use and climate change?

Asked by Raul Nava
On all the recycling bins at our waste facility and in the information we get from the people who pick it up, we are told that we can't recycle styrofoam. What do we do with it?

Asked by Joe Bates
Given an appropriate location, how large a solar array would it take to power the entire United States, assuming present efficiency levels? How much CO2 would be released to the atmosphere in producing those panels? What other harmful byproducts would be produced, and how much?

Asked by Paul Hayne
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