Sustainability alum is geared for a greater good

School of Sustainability alumna Christa Brelsford returns home after dominating her division in the Paraclimbing World Championships, but the mission that inspired her to study sustainability and travel to Haiti in 2010 remains unchanged: to do good in the world.

Andrew Krause, a School of Sustainability alumnus and U.N. Foundation Global Accelerator delegate, has developed a smartphone app that uses social interaction and gamification to promote sustainable action.

Bolstering rural Costa Rican farmers' ability to cope with limited market access and frequent drought, a School of Sustainability doctoral student's research has contributed to a multi-organizational effort to reshape agricultural water management policy.

Now working to bring renewable surface water from the Colorado River to Central Arizona, School of Sustainability graduate Jessica Fox has a long-standing interest in Western water planning.

​ In a recent early online edition of Nature Chemistry, ASU scientists, along with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory, have reported advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf. Designing an artificial

The Arizona Solar Summit brings together people and organizations to advance the solar industry on both the regional and national levels, creating a network to propel Arizona to national prominence

ASU sustainability scientist and professor of geography Janet Franklin is working to understand the changes in plant and animal life that have occurred since the end of the last ice age on the oceanic islands of the West Indies.

The recently released 2013 Sustainability Initiatives Revolving Fund (SIRF) annual report chronicles $5.6 million in investments that support Arizona State University.

Health Services is the second ASU building to receive LEED platinum certification, the highest USGBC green building ranking. The building is also the 38th ASU building to be LEED certified.

Research led by ASU's Matei Georgescu explores the relative effectiveness of common adaptation technologies – such as cool and green roofs – aimed at reducing warming from urban expansion.

ASU engineering professors will lead two research teams developing technologies that use the full spectrum of sunlight to produce inexpensive power, part of a $30 million U.S. Department of Energy program.

ASU is the first host of the GreenBiz U forum, a special simulcast of the annual GreenBiz forum, which provides an in-depth look at today’s sustainable business challenges and opportunities.