A sustainability ‘Olympics’: Stanford hosts inaugural Global Sustainability Challenge’s Americas final

Two years ago, Arun Majumdar, dean of the Doerr School of Sustainability, was moderating a panel of university presidents from around the world when a question was raised: “What can we do together that we cannot do alone?”

In pursuit of an answer, Majumdar began to conceptualize what would become the Global Sustainability Challenge (GSC) — an “Olympics” of real-world sustainable solutions. Friday marked the Americas final for the inaugural GSC. 23 finalist teams from across North and South America competed...