On Saturday, February 27, 2016, the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes participated in ASU’s Night of the Open Door. CBO student workers and volunteers designed a table where enthusiastic guests classified

At an annual keynote hosted by Decision Center for a Desert City, the directors of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and Arizona Department of Water Resources agreed that the ample water supply in the two states is the result of careful planning and conservation, and should not be taken for granted.

Ted Pavlic Ted, a Sustainability Scientist and Scholar and Professor at the School of Sustainability, has looked to nature to solve the complex problems of today. He found that nature

Janet Franklin  The health of terrestrial plant communities are critical for human survival not only because we depend on them for food and resources, but because they provide necessary ecological

In this March 2016 lecture, Dr. Wally Broecker discusses the changes that global warming will bring to our planet. Broecker, whose research has focused mainly on defining the ocean’s role

A Thought Leader Series Piece By James Hansen Note: James Hansen is the former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is an adjunct professor at Columbia

The Sustainability Solutions Festival returned to Phoenix in February 2016, extending programming to two weeks of events that brought together global sustainability thought leaders and organizations to celebrate and award entrepreneurs, designers and creative thinkers.

Pitu Mirchandani, School of Sustainability Pitu was named as a fellow to the Insinstitute For Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for his fundamental research contributions about various aspects of transportation and

ASU's Wrigley Institute is developing an ‘Introduction to Circular Economy’ program that will introduce students to circular economy principles and implementation strategies. Students will be able to pursue a professional certification

Arizona State University was announced as a Pioneer University of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's prestigious international Circular Economy 100 (CE100) network. ASU is the first university to join with a

James Hansen, renowned for seeing the threat of catastrophic climate change during his long career as NASA’s chief climatologist, delivered a February 2016 Wrigley Lecture about recent climate change developments and how we can fix the problem.

Rolf Halden  Chemicals and pesticides used within homes, agriculture and industries pour into our environment. Unfortunately, the poor effects of these compounds on the human and ecological environments are often