Status of sustainability in the Colorado River Basin

At an annual keynote hosted by Decision Center for a Desert City, the directors of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and Arizona Department of Water Resources agreed that the ample water supply in the two states is the result of careful planning and conservation, and should not be taken for granted.

In this March 2016 lecture, Dr. Wally Broecker discusses the changes that global warming will bring to our planet. Broecker, whose research has focused mainly on defining the ocean’s role

A Thought Leader Series Piece By James Hansen Note: James Hansen is the former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is an adjunct professor at Columbia

The Sustainability Solutions Festival returned to Phoenix in February 2016, extending programming to two weeks of events that brought together global sustainability thought leaders and organizations to celebrate and award entrepreneurs, designers and creative thinkers.

James Hansen, renowned for seeing the threat of catastrophic climate change during his long career as NASA’s chief climatologist, delivered a February 2016 Wrigley Lecture about recent climate change developments and how we can fix the problem.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo will begin offering a certificate in energy science in fall 2016, a program made possible through collaboration with ASU's School of Sustainability, which provided courses, syllabi and rationale from its own undergraduate certificate in energy and sustainability.

A summit hosted by Dave White – director of ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City – and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton gathered mayors from seven western cities to discuss the actions they are taking to address urban water supply and demand issues in an era of changing climate.

School of Sustainability professor Joshua Abbott is among the authors of a study, published in February 2016 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that calculates the value of natural capital with the same economic principles used to value traditional assets.

Ecologists who are motivated to achieve real impact in nature conservation should consider engaging with the corporate sector, say sustainability scientists Leah Gerber and Sheila Bonini, who are among the authors of a February 2016 editorial that makes this case.

ASU sustainability experts, including Global Sustainability Solutions Services Practice Lead Rajesh Buch, provided international best practices and shared knowledge at the first-ever gender and climate change conference, held in Jordan in February 2016 by the USAID Takamol- Gender Program.

ASU researchers, including senior sustainability scientist and lead principal investigator Alex Maholov, are developing a physics-based model utilizing weather and farming data to predict environmental, economic and socio-economic impacts of increased urban agriculture.

For the first time in its history, the International Union for Conservation of Nature will host its World Conservation Congress on U.S. soil in September 2016 – a bid secured with the assistance of ASU. The WCC will feature three events sponsored by the ASU Wrigley Institute, as well as a subcommittee chaired by board member John DeFries.