Skip to:

News

  1. To promote adoption of household health technologies, think beyond health
    News
    PESD associate director Mark Thurber and research collaborators at Stanford have found in a review of the medical and public health literatures that health improvement is rarely the principal reason why households adopt health-improving technologies like insecticide-treated nets, point-of-use water treatments, and improved biomass cookstoves. These findings, which appear in the American Journal of Public Health, suggest that wider health impact can be...
  2. Thurber featured on CSIS podcast
    News
     
  3. Thurber speaks in DC on coal-gas competition
    News
    Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) Associate Director Mark Thurber was a panelist at the 2019 Energy Security Workshop in Washington, D.C., where he spoke about why LNG (liquefied natural gas) struggles to compete with coal.
  4. Thurber launches book, talks coal in Germany
    News
    In no other developed country is the role of coal in the energy mix more hotly debated than in Germany. The country has been a leader in renewable energy development, but it also continues to mine and burn substantial quantities of coal, which has thus far blunted its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  5. Thurber: Why it's difficult to reduce gas flaring
    News
    Flaring of natural gas that can't be utilized represents both an economic loss and a major environmental problem.
News Archive