Posted on 05/04/2022 11:42:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability.
The gift, which Doerr is making with his wife, Ann, is the largest ever to a university for the establishment of a new school, and is the second largest gift to an academic institution, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Only Michael Bloomberg’s 2018 donation of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, ranks higher.
The gift establishes the Doerrs as leading funders of climate change research and scholarship, and will place Stanford at the center of public and private efforts to wean the world off fossil fuels.
“Climate and sustainability is going to be the new computer science,” said Doerr, who made his estimated $11.3 billion fortune investing in technology companies such as Slack, Google and Amazon. “This is what the young people want to work on with their lives, for all the right reasons.”
The school, to be known as the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, will be a home to traditional academic departments related to topics such as planetary science, energy technology and food-and-water security. It will also feature several interdisciplinary institutes and a center focused on developing practical policy and technology solutions to the climate crisis.
Arun Majumdar, who was named the school’s inaugural dean and has advised the Obama and Biden administrations on energy issues, said the school would provide context and analysis around climate change issues, but would stop short of advocacy.
“We will not go into the political arena,” he said. “That’s a very slippery slope for us.”
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Climate hoax is quiet a racket for filthy libtards 🤪
I saw him speak at a tech event in 2006. He talked about being refocused on that. But 16 years ago, he said it was almost too late, even back then. So what happened?
““We will not go into the political arena,” he said. “That’s a very slippery slope for us.””
Total dis- and mal- information.
A fool and his money....
Maybe they will actually do some real research and find out that their whole Climate change/global warming premise is based upon and built upon utter BS?
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/clip_image0021.jpg
Seems like some folks have more money than brains. If they REALLY cared they’d use the money build a solar/wind farm to power the school. 😂🙌🌋
Goebbels Warming pays well.
I’d rather they got $1.1 bil for a lawnmowing school from John Deere.
Arun Majumdar, the school’s inaugural dean: “We will not go into the political arena. That’s a very slippery slope for us.”
Arun would seem to be a pretty stupid guy for being so well educated. Good luck pulling that off.
Money would have been better used giving free I-Phones to crack whores
It is the Sun!
I’ll thank you for my $500,000,000
I was confused. I thought the headline said Stanford got the money from John Denver.
There goes 1.1 billion dollars down the crapper.
This is why it is hard for a rich man to get into Heaven.
They can’t pass the IQ test.
He used to be a nice guy who made a pretty decent wine
Bunch of grifters.
In Palo Alto today and can say with certainty they don’t need any more money.
Just a write-off to offset taxes...
“We will not go into the political arena,”
BS ...the whole thing is a bloody political racket.
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