777 Tower is first building in Novus to earn LEED Gold certification

Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

777 Tower is first building in Novus to earn LEED Gold certification

The 777 Tower, a six-story, 16,907 square-foot mixed-use office building in the Novus Innovation Corridor on ASU's Tempe campus has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building

10 AZ Mayors Unite to Honor Earth Day 2021 and Advance Regional Sustainability Efforts

Ten Arizona Mayors pledged to partake in a statewide celebration of Earth Day this April. Their video message, as well as an extensive list of Earth Day events and activities,

New online community for the Global Locust Network reaches 100 members

At the beginning of 2021, the Global Locust Network launched an online professional community using a software called Mobilize. The platform functions like a “LinkedIn for locusts” where Network members

Mayors Across Arizona Join Together to Celebrate Earth Day AZ

Press Release: April 19, 2021 Mayors Across Arizona Join Together to Celebrate Earth Day AZ Ten Arizona mayors are joining together to celebrate Earth Day AZ, a new statewide collaboration

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Impacts of tourist conservation awareness on whales

Faculty and students from the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and the Conservation Innovation Lab co-authorized a paper published yesterday in Frontiers in Marine Science, presenting their pilot study conducted

Global Locust Initiative hosts second stakeholder workshop on locust and grasshopper management: Australia edition

The Global Locust Initiative Lab hosted a virtual workshop on locust governance with Australian stakeholders on February 16-17, 2021. This workshop was part of a project supported by the Foundation

DeFi, NFTs, Cryptos: What really is Blockchain?

Written by: Rutva Patel, a masters student working withASU LightWorks on the Digital Carbon WarehouseAdvised by: Todd Taylor, blockchain expert, Thunderbird School of Global Management A blockchain is essentially a

STAR Metric to prevent species loss

Newcastle University (UK) Research Associate Louise Mair, PhD, published a paper titled “A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets” in Nature Ecology & Evolution. According to the

Estimating the true size of public procurement to improve sustainability

Originally published in The London School of Economics and Political Science. Governments have the power to leverage their sizeable purchasing power to encourage widescale production of sustainable products and services,

Do multiple sustainability objectives affect the speed of local procurement processes?

Published orginally in ICMA. Researchers at Arizona State University share results on public procurement efficiency. By By Yifan Chen, Nicole Darnall, Justin Stritch, and Stuart Bretschneider of Arizona State University

ASU is among the leaders in patents granted, startups launched

Arizona State University, through SkySong Innovations, continues to achieve high rankings in technology transfer metrics. With 129 patents awarded in FY19, ASU is No. 4 out of 58 universities and colleges in this peer group.

Project Cities Student Highlight: Keith Morphis

To highlight some of Project Cities’ star students, we interviewed Keith Morphus. Keith graduated from ASU in December 2020 with a Master’s in Urban and Environmental Planning. Keith has worked