Sharing is not only caring, it's how we thrive

Small acts of kindness – something as simple as lending a neighbor a cup of sugar – not only bind us together, but are critical to our survival as a species, according to anthropologist and Senior Sustainability Scientist Amber Wutich in her November 2017 KEDtalk.

Ryan Johnson, Executive Director of Sustainability Education and Training for ASU's School of Sustainability, has been appointed as a member of the Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council for a term

Satellite measurements indicate that the ozone hole is about 1 million miles smaller than a year ago – a positive trend that "suggests that we can achieve the solution to a large global environmental problem," according to Senior Sustainability Scientist Kevin Gurney.

Carbon-dioxide removal could be a trillion-dollar enterprise because it not only slows the rise in CO2 but reverses it. Many companies are vying to prove that carbon removal is feasible, but

Shirley-Ann Augustin-Behravesh, a lecturer with the School of Sustainability, won the Decision Sciences Institute's conference paper competition for her outstanding thesis research paper titled "Uncovering Sustainable Business Practice Bundles." Augustin-Behravesh's

A Thought Leader Series Piece by Alan AtKisson When it comes to sustainability as it is practiced today, I helped get a number of things started, from the use of

"If the United States wants to pull out of the accord, it will have to file this in writing in November 2019,” explains School of Sustainability Professor Sonja Klinsky, who told ASU Now that our country's willingness to cooperate may affect its ability to promote its interests.

Sustainability scientists from ASU's Global Drylands Center are among those researching the effects of climate change on vegetation communities and ecosystem processes across three deserts in the western U.S. Their findings will be used to manage Department of Defense drylands.

During her November 2017 Wrigley Lecture at ASU, Google's Sustainability Lead Kate Brandt detailed how the tech giant is working to embed circular economy principles into its infrastructure, operations and culture – letting its success speak for itself. Watch Brandt's lecture.

During an inaugural Army Reserve Mission Resilience and Sustainability conference hosted by ASU, over 150 military personnel, Department of the Army civilians and contractors were given the mandate to change the “sustainability DNA” of their organizations.

With a new source of funding following a five-year National Science Foundation grant, the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance – a unit of the ASU Wrigley Institute – grows to nine member organizations committed to tackling the phosphorus problem in our global food system.

Not everyone in our highly-connected world is a text or tweet away. For those in off-grid locales like Samoa, lack of information access means fewer educational opportunities. That’s where ASU’s