Joining forces with private sector for sustainability outcomes

Two representatives from ASU joined nearly 400 sustainability professionals from the world’s leading companies at a 2017 World Business Council for Sustainable Development meeting that focused on critical opportunities to advance sustainable development.

In March 2017, doctoral students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) joined NEPTUNE student veterans on ASU's Polytechnic campus for a week-long, intensive microgrid boot-camp. Over a 40-hour period, boot

The Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence initiative has grown to a $3 million, three-year program providing funding to four universities, including ASU, to improve energy technology within the Navy and Marine Corps.

In June 2016, Thomas Dempster, Research Professor and Laboratory Manager for the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI), traveled to Queretaro, Mexico to install the two open-raceway ponds

Global capacity of microgrids is expected to grow by 500% over the next ten years for applications such as the military, remote villages, telecom, campuses and industrial parks, mines, communities,

Tempe, AZ (June 30, 2016) – The U.S. Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment awarded $941,469 to Arizona State University and the City of Surprise to fund the creation of

Leonardo Beltrán Rodríguez, undersecretary for planning and energy transition under Mexico’s Secretary of Energy, is managing the most significant reform of Mexico’s energy sector in more than 70 years –

In May 2016, over 100 attendees and project members participated in the NEPTUNE fair at Arizona State University's Tempe campus. With representation from six universities – ASU, Purdue, M.I.T., UC

At a 2016 Legislative Breakfast hosted by Valley of the Sun and Tucson Regional Clean Cities Coalitions, ASU Wrigley Institute and LightWorks Director Gary Dirks was recognized as someone making a significant contribution to the Department of Energy's goals of clean air and energy security.

Environmental humanities is a rapidly growing field focused on the study of human imagination, perception, behaviors and the relationship with their surrounding environments, both social and natural. Arizona State University humanist

Green chemicals and biofuels are projected to become major players in the economy. This is incredibly important as CO2 levels rise and fossil fuel use becomes a liability. Dr. Willem

While the focus has been on algal biofuel, sustainability scientist Milton Sommerfeld – co-director of the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation – says the most immediate impact of algae will be in bioremediation, which uses the organisms to remove or neutralize pollutants from a contaminated site.