ASU Wrigley Institute launches climate change story video contest

In recognition of Global Climate Change Week during Campus Sustainability Month, the ASU Wrigley Institute has launched the Climate Story Video Contest. The contest invites ASU students to examine how the

During CNN's October Democratic presidential debate, Master of Sustainable Solutions student Anna Bettis appeared in a pre-recorded video expressing her concern about climate change and asking what candidates would do to address it.

Carbon Roots International - a company co-founded by School of Sustainability graduate Ryan Delaney and dedicated to helping rural Haitian farmers develop more efficient agricultural practices - was highlighted as a "Great Energy Challenge" grant-winner in the October issue of National Geographic magazine.

Arianne Cease, an assistant professor in ASU’s School of Sustainability, was named among Popular Science's 2015 "Brilliant 10" for her investigations into the locust swarms that devastate crops and threaten livelihoods, and for her work in identifying strategies to stop the insects from swarming.

In an effort to encourage consideration of the many ways climate change may affect us, ASU's Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative, in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Council, invites writers to submit stories that explore possible futures in its first Climate Fiction Short Story Contest.

According to Leah Gerber - founding director of ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes - a compromise with whaling nations that allows them to legally hunt under regulations and monitoring might break a current stalemate centered on the ethics of killing whales.

With the aim of transforming Ethiopia into a carbon-neutral middle-income country by 2025, ASU LightWorks is one of three institutions to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with AORA Solar to promote the development and advancement of renewable energy technologies in that country through academic cooperation.

In his essay, "Seeing the full picture: save nature, live better," M. Sanjayan seals the perceived separation between humans and the natural world, demonstrating how conservation is actually in our own enlightened best-interest. Sanjayan's essay is accompanied by a condensed video of his Earth Month Wrigley Lecture.

School of Sustainability lecturer and anthropologist, Milan Shrestha, has joined an interdisciplinary team of scientists working on an NSF-funded study of the risk posed by an engorged Himalayan glacial lake to the centuries-old settlements positioned downstream.

A Nature article following the latest annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America shares CAP LTER Director Nancy Grimm's sentiment that urban ecology's findings are increasingly important as the world's growing population urbanizes, and as cities seek resilience to the effects of climate change.

Students interested in careers that entail communicating sustainability science can now obtain a dual Master of Mass Communications and Master of Sustainable Solutions from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Sustainability.

In a recent opinion piece in the Arizona Republic titled "Our Turn: Hotter Arizona must find sustainability," the directorate of the ASU Wrigley Institute discusses the global rise of sustainability, its significance for our collective future and the need for sustainability solutions.