What's in a Name? Everything! Put on Your Thinking Caps and Send Us Your Most Creative Program Names!

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What's in a Name? Everything! Put on Your Thinking Caps and Send Us Your Most Creative Program Names!

We need your help naming a new program at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability!  The program brings ASU students and faculty together with a local city government

Regional Tree & Shade Summit 2.0 - Branching Out One Community at a Time

March 9th, 2016 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM AE England Building ASU Downtown Campus See the schedule of events here! Find the presentations from this event here. Urban forestry is

Low Impact Development Toolkit

Low Impact Development Toolkit The Cities of Mesa and Glendale, with a grant from the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona (WIFA), have partnered to develop this Low Impact Development

SCN Steering Committee Member Now Peoria's Economic Efficiency and Sustainability Manager

Thanks to her enthusiasm for sustainability, Lisa Estrada, Peoria’s representative on SCN’s Steering Committee, has recently changed titles. Previously the Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator, her new title is now Economic Efficiency

Resource Innovation and Solutions Network

Resource Innovation and Solutions Network A new paradigm focused on integrated resource management is emerging in response to the current unsustainable pace of resource consumption, waste production, and the increasing

Sustainable Cities Network Convenes Climate Scientists, Municipal Leaders

By Saritha Ramakrishna January 21, 2015 On January 8, ASU’s Sustainable Cities Network (SCN) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) convened municipal and nonprofit leaders in order to discuss the

Call for Internship Proposals

ASU’s School of Sustainability seeks local partners to host sustainability focused internships. Interns can be at the graduate or undergraduate level and are available for approximately 10-12 hours a week

Flagstaff Considers Bag-Free Future

Past the mountains of buried trash at Flagstaff’s Cinder Lake Landfill, 25-foot-high fences stand guard to catch flyaway trash picked up by northern Arizona’s whipping winds. Everything from dog food

Call for Community Challenges, SOS 321

Class Descripion and Projects Desired Professor Michael Schoon of ASU’s School of Sustainability is teaching a class in the upcoming spring semester (Jan-May 2015), SOS 321 in which he will

Urban Sustainability Best Practices Class, Presentations

Over the course of the last 15 weeks, the School of Sustainability senior and graduate students have been applying their textbook knowledge to real world scenarios. Several municipalities and other

Duct Tape and Planters inspire a City!

By Tracy Stevens, Director, Development & Engineering Services, City of Avondale On Saturday, October 11, 2014, the City of Avondale Development and Engineering Services Department transformed 5th Street using temporary

Employing sunlight: Taking a rour of Tempe's largest Solar project

By Gabrielle Olson, ASU LightWorks On March 27, 2014, Tempe’s South Water Treatment Plant hosted their first public solar tour. The tour highlighted the implementation of more than 3,000 solar