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ASU commits to zero waste challenge with people power

Sustainability practices director Nick Brown says eliminating waste requires a deep cultural transformation.

Decision Center for a Desert City at AAAS 2013

A contingent of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students from the Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) at Arizona State University will present their research at a special poster

Survey results on water resource and land use planning in the Phoenix metropolitan area

In the report, Views and Activities among Municipal Water Managers and Land Planners: Stressors and Strategies for Resource Management in Metropolitan Phoenix, AZ, DCDC Co-PI Kelli Larson presents 2010 survey

Grant to fund innovative student capstone course in sustainable manufacturing

Building on CTI's iProjects program, the School of Sustainability will share faculty and scientists to educate on the social and environmental impacts of business and manufacturing process.

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Event: Valentine’s Day at the Tempe campus Farmers Market

Tuesday, February 12, 20139:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.Orange Mall, west of the MU fountainArizona State University, Tempe campus At the Farmers Market @ the Tempe campus, guest vendors will have

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The Sustainability Consortium launches Electronics Delphi Panel

The Electronics Delphi Panel consists of experts who will develop metrics for the ideal electronics takeback program, which currently does not exist.

Spotlight on ASU Research at ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) is hosting its fourth annual Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D.C. on February 25-27, 2013. The event is designed to collect esteemed

Event: Using Project-Based Learning to Teach Sustainability

Mark Henderson Director, GlobalResolveCo-Founder, InnovationSpace Micah Lande Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering The sustainability movement is gaining momentum, but to keep the momentum going, it is important to prepare future

DCDC research highlights from recent poster symposia

DCDC researchers shared their research at several conferences and meetings in the first half of the 2012-2013 academic year. From topics ranging from The Social Ecology of Residential Land Management

Your Warming World from New Scientist Magazine

New Scientist Magazine was launched in 1956 "for all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery, and in its industrial, commercial and social consequences". In an interactive

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Innovation, patenting fuels economy

A Brookings Institution report, co-authored by Sustainability Scientist José Lobo, finds Phoenix among the top 20 for U.S. patents from 2007 to 2011.