Carbon Nation director talks cows, soil and carbon capture

In a recent GreenBiz article titled "The rise of the soil carbon cowboys," sustainability scientist and film director Peter Byck discusses the climate-mitigating benefits of adaptive multi-paddock grazing, as well as an opportunity for collaboration between ranchers and oil companies.

Through features like streamlined navigation, a mobile-friendly layout and a new expert search function, the latest version of the ASU Wrigley Institute website serves as a portal to all things sustainability at ASU while offering increased visibility to its numerous units and initiatives.

Thanks to a new $4.5 million National Science Foundation award, Decision Center for a Desert City researchers can expand their studies to other cities in the Colorado River Basin and better explore the transformational changes necessary to sustain Southwest water supplies.

Using his background in both finance and biology, sustainability scientist Shade Shutters has developed an algorithm that can determine which industries fit best in a particular city, as well as whether a city has the right makeup to become a “green” economic hub.

A video titled "How to apply resilience thinking" featured in a recent Stockholm Resilience Center newsletter illustrates the seven principles of resilience-building as outlined in a Cambridge publication authored in part by Micheal Schoon - a sustainability scientist and assistant professor in the School of Sustainability.

In response to the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the National Science Foundation has awarded a transdisciplinary team of ASU scientists and their international sustainability research network $12 million to produce a suite of tools that support resilient, culturally appropriate and safe-to-fail urban infrastructure.

In this guest piece, Decision Center for a Desert City outreach coordinator Katie Peige shares the features of her sustainability-themed wedding to fellow School of Sustainability graduate Brad Baker, including second-hand dining ware, glasses crafted from old wine bottles and a zero waste goal that landed backyard chickens with the reception's leftovers.

A recent article in Fortune magazine, titled "Phoenix's $13 million plan to turn trash into cash," highlighted the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network - established by the City of Phoenix's Reimagine Phoenix initiative and ASU's Walton Initiatives to create economic value while driving a sustainable circular economy.

ASU and Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany - institutions with a history of successful research partnership - are pioneering a path in international academic cooperation through the new Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation, founded in part by sustainability scientists.

A nation with the potential to be an “economic tiger," Pakistan struggles to provide 70 to 80 percent of its population with steady electricity. On June 3, leaders from ASU joined a ceremony in Islamabad to launch a five-year, $18-million energy studies partnership with two leading universities in that nation.

In an effort to capture items that were previously landfilled - such as coffee pods, cosmetic containers and water filters - the team behind ASU Recycling now offers the blue bag program, currently used in more than 52 buildings on ASU's Tempe campus.

There has never been a more important time to educate and train the leaders of the future to deal with the threats of instability. Current world leaders are discussing climate