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Call for applications: Knowledge Exchange for Resilience

The mission of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is to support Maricopa County, Arizona by sharing knowledge, catalyzing discovery, and exchanging responses to challenges together, in order to build community

Making Sense of Complexity: A webinar series and explainer video

Trying to understand complexity and the concept of Complex Adaptive Systems? Learn from your colleagues in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, College of Global Futures. Their webinar series, Making

Sept. 2: Food. Nature. People.

ASU’s Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems is a partner in this international, virtual and free event, which will provide actionable scientific evidence to fundamentally transform agriculture and land management.

Sept 7: Workshop on Reimagining Climate Futures

Workshop participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to create their own narratives on climate-policy interventions, focusing on issues including climate migration and displacement, advocacy and coalition-building and transforming institutions and industries.

Sept. 1-2: Advancing Women, Peace and Security in the Indo-Pacific

Global Futures scientists Pamela DeLargy and Laura Hosman are participating on behalf of ASU in a two-day conference hosted by Pacific Forum International. Topics include cultivating a culture of allyship in security, building bridges between CSOs and local government, WPS in the defense sector, gender and preventing/countering violent extremism, and gender and climate security in the Indo-Pacific.

Entrepreneur Magazine: These are the reasons why you will return to your desk

In a piece for The Conversation and republished in Entrepreneur magazine, Global Futures Scientist Deborah Salon and colleagues talk about the future of the office after the coronavirus lockdown. Entrepreneur has a readership of over 3 million.

The Conversation: Organic food has room to grow

Significant Figure: 82%. This is the share of Americans who buy some organic food on a regular basis. Although organics have gone mainstream, Kathleen Merrigan says the sector still has room to grow. Read more in her most recent piece for The Conversation, which to date has been republished 37 times.

Rethinking resources and conservation

Bryan Leonard says laws regarding natural resources on public land are antiquated and prevent voluntary conservation. “Use-it-or-lose-it requirements ... can preclude environmental groups from participating in markets for natural resources," he said.

Announcing GFORS, the Global Futures Office of Research Services

GFORS is your one-stop virtual shop for research development, research advancement, proposal support, analytics, events, communications, business operations and human resource services. Each GFORS “department” has its own intake form to request services; find them on the GFL website.

California wildfires make underground utilities an infrastructure priority

Trenchless technology expert Samuel Ariaratnam talks about the plans of California’s largest electricity provider's to start burying power lines in fire zones.

Sept. 1-2: Advancing women, peace and security in the Indo-Pacific

To further the implementation of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) that advances a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, Pacific Forum International, in partnership with USINDOPACOM Office of WPS, is organizing the

Entrepreneur Magazine: These are the reasons why you will return to your desk

The future of the office has become an open question after the coronavirus lockdown forced billions of people to work from home. Will office workers return to their cubicles with