June 12-15: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021

Global Futures Scientists-Scholars

June 12-15: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021

The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 is the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability – it will be a space of fierce advocacy for sustainability scholarship, innovation, collaboration and action.

New paper: Collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus

The social network analysis revealed challenges to collaborative governance of FEW nexus stakeholders, but the authors found that by leveraging bridging there are opportunities to increase collaborative governance between sectors.

Registration now open: Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Ed 2021

Attendees can register today to reserve their spot for a virtual event that saw over 6,800 registrants last year, bringing together more than 400 institutions from 36 countries.

June 24: Match yourself and your students to real projects in Peoria

Scientists and scholars are invited to join Project Cities and the City of Peoria to co-develop class projects for the 2021-2022 academic year. The program is designed to support most class formats and work across disciplines.

How to activate an AASHE account

Arizona State University faculty and staff are already members of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. AASHE is home to the STARS rating sytem, offers

How to activate an AASHE account

Arizona State University faculty and staff are already members of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Here's how to activate your account.

New paper: Sustainable consumption communication

The paper by sustainability scientists Daniel Fischer, Tyler DesRoches and co-authors provides a review of sustainable consumption communication (SCC) as a field of research. Analyzing 67 papers, the authors describe 4 types of SCC research that conceptualize and relate the terms very differently.

June 9-11: IASC conference on knowledge commons

Topics include: innovation spaces; digital resources like Wikipedia and Stack exchange; open-source software development; the future of science and education; the archival of existing knowledge; cultural commons; and citizen science.

2022 AAAS annual meeting call for proposals for sessions and workshops

The theme of the 2022 AAAS Annual Meeting— Empower With Evidence—focuses on science literacy, evidence-based decision making, and the use of validated knowledge to drive public policy for the benefit of all. Propose a session by June 17!

May 25: Open discussion with the Competitive Intelligence Working Group

The Competitive Intelligence Working Group (CIWG) is open to anyone who is currently performing strategic and competitive intelligence activities, or interested in learning more about this growing area in research development.

"Everything Change" anthology discussed in KJZZ podcast

The discussion includes Joey Eschrich, one of the editors, Jules Hogan whose work is featured in the anthology, and Kelly Lydick who served as a judge of the contest that shaped the collection.

Student-led course: Intersectional environmentalism and sustainability

The course examined how identities such as race, class, and gender create different realities for different people and how those people navigate the world around them.