Slowing down fashion: Sustainable clothing and goods with Ethic Attic

Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

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Slowing down fashion: Sustainable clothing and goods with Ethic Attic

“Our goal is to be a one stop place for design conscious products that are sustainable and made with least negative impact on the ecology.”Rema Sivaram Rema Sivaram – Co-Founder

Project Cities celebrates five years with the President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness

ASU Project Cities has been awarded the President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness, a university-wide initiative to recognize the work of ASU faculty, staff, and programs for their work in social embeddedness. As part of ASU’s charter and design aspirations, social embeddedness encompasses the university’s commitment to serving its surrounding communities by sharing its resources and knowledge networks through mutually beneficial community partnerships.

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Clean, Safe Mukuru Clean Stoves: An economic opportunity for women

Mukuru Clean Stoves replace traditional stoves with improved cookstoves that reduce exposure to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), have lower fuel consumption and reduce

Mona Itani

Shabab Lab: Revolutionizing technologies to promote social change in Arab communities

Mona Itani – CEO & Founder of Shabab Lab – Lebanon 2021 WE Empower finalist, Middle East and North Africa Transforming Arab youth into changemakers in their community is the

Telisa Daughtry

Fly Technista: Providing tech opportunities for women around the globe

With over 1.4 million tech-related jobs available and only 3% of these roles filled by women, Fly Technista, a revolutionary mobile app, bridges the access gap for women within

Yetunde Oyalowo, founder of Market Doctors, Nigeria

2022 WE Empower Awardee, Sub-Saharan Africa Healthcare has become a critical focus in recent years, especially in Nigeria. Access to simple checkups and medicine is infeasible for millions of Nigerians

SPRI contributes research and writing to UNEP Sustainable Public Procurement: 2022 Global Review

ASU's SPRI was heavily involved in both the research and writing for the UN Environment Programme's 2022 Global Review on Sustainable Public Procurement.

Paul Coseo

Meet affiliated faculty Paul Coseo

Read on for an interview with Paul Coseo, Senior Global Futures Scientist at Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and Assistant Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

NaTakallam Team

NaTakallam, a pathway forward and upward for refugees

Aline Sara – CEO & Co-Founder of NaTakallam- United States of America 2021 WE Empower Awardee, Europe and North America Dignity, Prosperity and International Opportunities The

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Selva Nevada: Empowering Indigenous communities through biodiverse products

Catalina Alvarez has worked for over fourteen years on various projects that seek to improve the economic conditions of small rural producers in Colombia. Alvarez helped to

Locust researchers represent at Entomological Society of America conference

The Global Locust Initiative Lab team attended the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting in Vancouver November 12–16th, 2022, along with a great showing of fellow locust and grasshopper researchers, many of whom are students recently brought into the fold of locust research through the Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (BPRI).

New summary report released: Community Engagement Strategies

Community engagement is a critical component of ensuring that a community has input and is receiving information from its local government. Cities have used a variety of engagement strategies to gather feedback on its services, as well as inform future planning.