Helping sustain the future of dates
ASU's date grove is the No. 2 collection in the U.S., full of rare varieties sold to the ASU community and the public. ASU students, staff and community volunteers work to
Male mutations are driving evolution. How’s that working out?
The word mutation conjures many images in the popular mind, virtually all of them negative. Mutations in the human genome cause crippling birth abnormalities and are the source of innumerable
Prospective sustainability leaders offered a financial boost
Through funding provided by the Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation, ASU will award a limited number of scholarships of up to $15,000 to professionals seeking to accelerate their careers through the Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership program.
Anthology "Everything Change" imagines future of Earth
The 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest challenged writers around the world to create short stories that imagined possible futures for Earth and humanity transformed by climate change. More than 700
Tonto National Forest Public Meetings
The U.S. Forest Service is hosting a series of upcoming meetings in Arizona and want to make sure the larger community is aware of the public involvement opportunity to lend
Make It Rain Campaign
ASU partners with the Change the Course campaign to replenish water all around the world. By using the hashtag #MakeItRainASU on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, social media users can help ASU restore up
Visioning Sustainability in Rio Claro, Brazil by 2020
Saurabh Biswas, a PhD student in Sustainability, spent his summer visioning sustainability in Rio Claro, an agricultural village of the Delfim Moreira municipality, in Minas Gerais, Brazil as part of
Publication: Addressing the Anthropocene
A paper authored by sustainability scientists Ariel Anbar and Braden Allenby, along with sustainability fellow Wally Broecker, looks at the Anthropocene as an evolutionary transition to an epoch in which
ASU Poly Gardens cultivates sustainability
From producing citrus trees and carrots to pumpkins and watermelons, ASU’s Poly Gardens envelops both a passion for growing food and a connection to surrounding nature. Poly Gardens extends past ASU and into
Mobilizing to address national security risks of climate change
Responding to a recent report by the Department of Defense warning of the security risks of climate change, ASU’s Global Security Initiative is building a new program to serve as the hub for resilience-enhancing research and enable adaptation to climate risks globally.
Closing the loop on an essential but finite element
By collecting phosphorus – the element at the foundation of our food system – before it reaches waterways, ASU's Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance hopes to extract it from waste and sell it back to fertilizer companies, eliminating the reliance on a dwindling supply from other countries.
Sustainability scientists serve as panelist at Preparedness Symposium
Nalini Chhetri, assistant Director, was one of the two panelists at the whole day Preparedness Symposium organized by AZ Department of Emergency and Military Affairs, DEMA, on 21 September 2016 at the Sheraton Crescent hotel in Phoenix. The other panelist was Dr. Nancy Selover, State Climatologist.