Sustainability scientist Ariel Anbar to receive 2019 European science innovation award

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Sustainability scientist Ariel Anbar to receive 2019 European science innovation award

Arizona State University President’s Professor Ariel Anbar has been selected to receive the 2019 Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG). This award recognizes scientists who have

Carbon-capture technology moves to commercialization

ASU Now Arizona State University and Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) have announced an agreement to deploy carbon-capture technology developed by Professor Klaus Lackner, director of ASU’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions. The

ASU–Wells Fargo Earth Day broadcast reaches more than 1.7 million people

The ASU Wrigley Institute celebrated Earth Day with an around-the-clock documentary broadcast highlighting projects and people making an impact for a sustainable tomorrow. The successful “24 Hours of Sustainability” broadcast reached 1.7 million Facebook users in 45 countries.

Watch Alice Waters's Wrigley Lecture about slow food culture

Alice Waters — famed chef, author and founder/owner of Chez Panisse restaurant — visited ASU to deliver the year's first Wrigley Lecture, "We Are What We Eat: Teaching Slow Food Values in a Fast Food Culture." This lecture was co-sponsored by the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems.

WE Empower holds inaugural Changemaker Series event in Washington

The WE Empower UN SDG Challenge celebrated Habiba Ali, the competition’s 2018 winner. The evening before, Ali was awarded the 2019 Economic Empowerment Award through Vital Voices’ Global Leadership Awards Honoree Program.

The politics of climate change

As the world attempts to shift away from fossil fuel use, the need for alternative forms of energy is growing. But this transition does not come without major growing pains

ASU students gamify sustainability education with Kahoot! quizzes

As part of ASU’s efforts to advance K–12 sustainability education, a student group led by School of Sustainability professor Stephanie Pfirman created a suite of Kahoot! quizzes to teach sustainability concepts including environment, food, social justice and energy.

ASU students gamify sustainability education with Kahoot! quizzes

ASU Now As part of Arizona State University’s efforts to advance sustainability education for K–12 students, a faculty-led student group created a suite of Kahoot! games to teach sustainability concepts. Kahoot! is a

Sustainability scholar supporting sustainable development in Hawai’i

Hawai’i was recognized in late 2018 by the United Nations as a Local2030 hub — the first island and first place in Asia Pacific to be named a hub. Hawai’i Green Growth (HGG) coordinates the hub activities and the ASU Wrigley Institute serves on the hub’s board, drawing on ASU expertise to help support practical implementation of U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainability scientist serves on new environmental economics advisory committee

ASU faculty helps establish research organization to strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to assess social benefits and costs of environmental policies Policies on air pollution, climate change and water

Streamlining the study of nature in cities

Nancy Grimm, an Arizona State University professor in the the School of Life Sciences and a senior sustainability scientist, won an award for being part of a team that created

To save life on Earth, here’s the $100 billion-a-year solution

Greg Asner, director of the new ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, is one of 19 international authors with a bold new science policy proposal — "A Global Deal for Nature" — to reverse the tide of Earth's first human-made biodiversity catastrophe.