Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Mary Y Lee
Cardinal Crew, Marketing & Fan Experience
Student Tour Guide, VIS
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Student Employee, Woods Research Natural Capital ProjectBioMary Lee is an undergraduate student at Stanford majoring in Earth Systems within the Human Development track and minoring in Political Science.
At Stanford University, Mary is a Research Assistant in the Deliberative Democracy Lab at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her research includes conducting experiments and evaluations focused on citizen deliberation on the topic of the United Kingdom’s Economic Inequality. Mary is also a Research Assistant for the Natural Capital Project at Stanford Wood’s Institute for the Environment. Her current research focuses on studying literature about urban green spaces and how nature exposure (e.g., residential green space, park visits) in cities can improve both mental and physical health outcomes.
Outside of Stanford University, Mary is the CEO & Founder of ImpactZ, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating youth and community members on environmental education and stewardship. She enjoys working with schools and young students to build community gardens, create take-home planting kits, and learn about how to take care of the environment.
Mary has experience within policymaking and governmental operations through her numerous internship experiences with California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Office, California State Assembly Member Mia Bonta’s Office, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s Office. During these internships, she has conducted research on state reforms, reviewed legislative case studies and proposals, and interacted with constituents throughout California to hear their opinions on short-term and long-term policies. Mary was also elected onto the Keep Oakland Beautiful Organization's Youth Advisory Board and worked in the Community Engagement and Events subcommittee to coordinate sustainability projects across the Bay Area.
Mary is drawn to environmental science and her work inspires others to understand the world through intentional practices and stewardship. -
Mike Lin
Lecturer, ChangeX
BioMike Lin is an investor, engineer and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in design thinking, startups and venture capital. Mike is a Lecturer at Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability where he teaches SUST 234: Systems Transformation and Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Impact.
Mike is also co-founder and General Partner at Dangerous Ventures, a seed stage fund investing in startups that are building a more sustainable and resilient future. Dangerous focuses on scalable solutions that empower people, the planet and society to be more resilient and thrive in a rapidly changing environment. -
Charles Litchfield
Sr Assoc Dean Fin and Admin, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability - Dean's Office
Current Role at StanfordSenior Associate Dean, Chief Operating Officer - Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Zac Yung-Chun Liu
Research, Hopkins Marine Station
BioZac Yung-Chun Liu specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence applications, remote sensing imagery processing, and geospatial analysis. His deep learning work includes computer vision, image classification, segmentation, object detection, and natural language processing, related to disease ecology and shark conservation.
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Mao-wei Lo
Doctor of Laws Student, Law
Other Tech - Graduate, Center for Ocean SolutionsBioMao-wei Lo is a J.S.D. Candidate at Stanford Law School. He received his J.S.M. (2019) from Stanford Law School; and his LL.B. (2012) and LL.M. (2015) from National Taiwan University (NTU), with the honor of 2011 and 2012 Presidential Awards (awarded to students with academic performance in the top 5% of their class). In 2016, he was also awarded a Ministry of Education Scholarship to study International Organizations and International Law.
Before coming to Stanford, Mr. Lo served as the Senior Officer at Department of Legal Affairs, Mainland Affairs Council (Taiwan’s government agency responsible for research, planning, review, and coordination of Mainland China policies and affairs) from 2015. He also worked as Teaching Assistant at NTU College of Law and Research Assistant at Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy. In addition, he served as the Chief Editor of the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy in 2014.
Active in legal academia, Mr. Lo has presented at numerous conferences and seminars. His legal scholarship has appeared in journals and edited collections, including Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, and Global Arbitration Review. -
Amory B Lovins
Adjunct Professor, Atmosphere and Energy
BioPhysicist Amory Lovins (1947– ) is Cofounder (1982) and Chairman Emeritus, and was Chief Scientist (2007–19), of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org), with which he continues to collaborate. He has designed numerous superefficient buildings, vehicles, and industrial plants, and synthesized an "integrative design" method and practice that can make the energy efficiency resource severalfold larger, yet cheaper, often with increasing returns. Since 1973 he has also advised major firms and governments in >70 countries on advanced energy efficiency and strategy, emphasizing efficiency, renewables integration, and the links between energy, resources, environment, security, development, and economy. He is a Scholar of the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Lovins has received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards, many other energy and environment recognitions, and Germany’s highest civilian honor (the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit). A Harvard and Oxford dropout, former Oxford don, honorary US architect, Swedish engineering academician, and 2011–18 member of the US National Petroleum Council, he has taught at ten universities (most recently the US Naval Postgraduate School and Stanford (spring 2007 MAP/Ming Visiting Professor, then half-time 2020– Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in his teaching terms)—teaching only subjects he hasn’t formally studied, so as to cultivate beginner’s mind. In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. His most recent books, mostly coauthored, include Natural Capitalism (1999), Small Is Profitable (2002), Winning the Oil Endgame (2004), The Essential Amory Lovins (2011), and Reinventing Fire (2011). His avocations include fine-art landscape photography (the profession of his wife Judy Hill Lovins, www.judyhill.com), music, writing, orangutans, great-ape language, linguistics, and Taoist thought.
COURSES: Lovins and Dr. Joel Swisher PE, as CEE Adjunct Professors in teaching quarters, cotaught in 2022 iterations 6–7 of their flagship course applying whole-system thinking and integrative design for radical energy efficiency and profitable climate solutions: CEE 107R, CEE 207R: "E^3: Extreme Energy Efficiency." They will next offer it in Winter and Spring Quarters 2023.
PUBLICATIONS
Lovins has authored 31 books and over 800 papers in a wide range of disciplines. His recent peer-reviewed papers include:
"How big is the energy efficiency resource?," Env. Res. Ltrs., Sep 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad965
"Recalibrating climate prospects," coauthored, Env. Res. Ltrs., Dec 2019, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab55ab
"Can a virus and viral ideas speed the world's journey beyond fossil fuels?," with K. Bond, Env. Res. Ltrs., Feb 2021, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc3f2
"Reframing automotive fuel efficiency," SAE J-STEEP, Apr 2020, https://doi.org/10.4271/13-01-01-0004
His Aug/Sep 2020 Electricity Journal interview on the future of electricity is at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2020.106827.
His 11 Nov 2020 Precourt Institute for Energy seminar on "Integrative Design for Radical Energy Efficiency," with Dr. Holmes Hummel, is at https://energy.stanford.edu/events/special-energy-seminar-amory-lovins-holmes-hummel.
Profitably abating heavy transport and industrial heat: https://www.rmi.org/profitable-decarb/ and ($6.95 paywall) https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/decarbonizing-our-toughest-sectors-profitably/, both 2021.
“US nuclear power: status, prospects, and climate implications,” El. J., 6 May 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2022.107122. -
Maxine Lym
Senior Manager - Strategic Energy Alliance Programs, Precourt Institute for Energy
BioMaxine Lym is a senior program manager for the Strategic Energy Alliance (SEA) and the Precourt Institute for Energy. She helps to manage the efforts of SEA researchers and the engagement of SEA members. She also coordinates the Institute’s internal and external outreach programs. Prior to this role, she served as the communications manager for Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project, a pioneering collaboration between academia and industry. Maxine worked in Bay Area television, where she was honored with two Emmy awards. She graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley with a B.A. degree in Mass Communications.
