One degree: Icing the heat island effect

Global Futures Thought Leader Series

One degree: Icing the heat island effect

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Mick Dalrymple Note: Mick Dalrymple is a LEED-accredited professional and co-founder of the Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. He is the ASU

Low-carbon fuels from sunlight and waste carbon dioxide: It is possible, is it practical?

A network of issues buried beneath the strategic and economic importance of petroleum and the increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide is complex; however, until addressed, no measure of global sustainability will be obtainable.

Growing in the context of climate change

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Sunita Narain Note: Sunita Narain is the director general of The Centre for Science and Environment. She will be speaking at the next Wrigley

Sustainable consumption: Creating standards to deliver better products

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Kara Hurst Note: Kara Hurst is the CEO of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), a joint initiative between Arizona State University and the University of

Wicked problems: How systems thinking, technology and new partnerships can tackle sustainability’s challenges

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Bruno Sarda Note: Bruno Sarda is the director of global sustainability operations at Dell, a consultant for the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives,

Business + University: Tomorrow's Jobs Require Sustainability

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Hunter Lovins Note: Hunter Lovins is a past Wrigley Lecture Series speaker at ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability and was a keynote speaker at

Living like the future matters: Inspiring urban sustainability

ASU and Phoenix have collaborated on numerous big projects through the years, including development of the ASU campus in the heart of downtown. More recently, ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability and Phoenix teamed up to win a $25 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to launch Energize Phoenix, a sustainable energy efficiency program that creates green jobs and reduces carbon emissions while transforming energy use in diverse neighborhoods along a 10-mile stretch of the Metro light rail.

Corporate sustainability: The challenge of achieving more with less

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Kasper Rorsted Note: ASU and Henkel have a long relationship on issues of sustainability, beginning with ASU’s collaboration with the Dial Corporation, now a

Practicing sustainability: From measurement to progress

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Ralf Wilde Note: ASU and TÜV Rheinland in 2009 established a commercial joint venture in Tempe, Arizona – the TÜV Rheinland Photovoltaic Testing Laboratory.

Sustainable army: Creating a net zero bootprint

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Richard Kidd Note: ASU was selected by the Army National Guard to partner in the development and delivery of an online Graduate Certificate in

Sustainability waits: Doomsday clock ticks forward

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Lawrence M. Krauss Shortly after the end of World War II, Albert Einstein uttered his now famous warning about the new global danger of

Sustain what? Exploring species for a sustainable future

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Quentin Wheeler Several centuries of species exploration have taught us that a vast number of Earth’s plants and animals are extremely limited in their