ASU sports sustainability prowess during Final Four Tournament

In April 2017, Arizona welcomed the NCAA’s Final Four Tournament – a college basketball championship that spanned three days in downtown Phoenix. With over 70,000 fans in attendance, the event was

At a Case Critical discussion about the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, panelists Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, School of Sustainability Assistant Professor Sonja Klinsky and ASU economist William Boyes expressed differing opinions about the best next steps.

Explaining to ASU Now why Phoenix residents have to bear extreme temperatures every summer, Distinguished Sustainability Scientist Randy Cerveny said, "We have a large upper-air ridge of high pressure centered over

An ASU team took the overall prize in the "Make the Ala Wai Awesome" challenge, an international student design competition that asked contestants to rehabilitate a critical Oʻahu watershed containing one of the nation’s most polluted bodies of water.

Announced in June 2017 by the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network, the RISN Incubator – a business development and accelerator program – is seeking early-stage ventures that focus on solutions to waste-related challenges and work toward a circular economy.

Arizona State University is playing a leadership role in the Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes (GCSO). GCSO is an international consortium of universities that collaborate to implement and scale solutions

With the involvement of ASU's Biomimicry Institute, a 2017 exhibit at the Tempe Center for the Arts titled "Biomimicry: Nature Inspired Design" shows visitors an approach to problem-solving that harnesses both the practicality and beauty of nature's designs.

Beginning in fall 2017, Project Cities will pair faculty and students from ASU’s School of Sustainability and other departments with a city in the greater Phoenix area. The entities will collaborate for 12 to 24 months, co-creating strategies for better environmental, economic and social balance in that community.

ASU is partnering with the Center for Carbon Removal and institutions like Iowa State University, Purdue University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with the aim of creating a market for

The ASU Wrigley Institute is pleased to announce the promotion of Anne Reichman to director of the Sustainable Cities Network. Anne has been program manager of SCN since its inception

ASU LightWorks Program Coordinator Samson Szeto has been named to the 2017 GreenBiz "30 Under 30," the second year in a row that a School of Sustainability graduate has made the list of young professionals striving to make both their workplace and the world a better place.

After President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, School of Sustainability Assistant Professor Sonja Klinsky went over the possible ramifications with ASU Now.