Donkeys dig deep in the desert, benefiting overall ecosystem

An Arizona State University doctoral candidate has discovered that horses, donkeys and other equine species, which are seen as “invasive,” actually help shape desert ecosystems, fulfilling the same function long-extinct

ASU project receives first place in 2021 Microgrid Greater Good Awards

Led by sustainability scientist Nathan Johnson and the Laboratory for Energy and Power Solutions, ASU’s ATLAS Containerized Microgrid has won first place in the 2021 Microgrid Greater Good Awards. The

June 12-15: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021

Sustainability scientist Julianna Gwiszcz is co-facilitating two sessions at this year’s SRI Congress, hosted June 12-15, 2021, online and in Brisbane, Australia. The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021)

Registration now open: Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Ed 2021

Registration for this year’s virtual Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE) has officially opened. Attendees can register today to reserve their spot for a virtual event that saw

June 24: Match yourself and your students to real projects in Peoria

Scientists and scholars are invited to join Project Cities and the City of Peoria to co-develop class projects for the 2021-2022 academic year. Peoria staff from 9 departments will join

ASU engineering experts reframe infrastructure security

Sustainability scientists Mikhail Chester and Brad Allenby and their faculty peers believe broader perspectives need to be part of the current debate about improving America’s infrastructure systems.

Ariaratnam receives Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award

Ariaratnam is among the leading experts in the development of trenchless construction methods and technologies used in underground construction. He will deliver the Bechtel Lecture at the 2021 ASCE Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute Pipelines Conference.

June 15-16: Earth Archive LiDAR conference

The Earth Archive is an international, interdisciplinary initiative to create an open-access, high-resolution, digital archive of the earth's surface compiled from LiDAR scans, which can be used for a wide range of social and natural science, as well as environmental policy work.

Donkeys dig deep in the desert, benefiting overall ecosystem

According to a new study, equine species, which are seen as "invasive," actually help shape desert ecosystems, sniffing out water and digging wells that are used by other wildlife.

ASU project receives first place in 2021 Microgrid Greater Good Awards

The system powers a 40-foot container that was converted by an ASU team into a medical clinic in Northern Uganda that provides primary care to over 200 Sudanese refugees per day.

June 12-15: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021

The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 is the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability – it will be a space of fierce advocacy for sustainability scholarship, innovation, collaboration and action.

New paper: Collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus

The social network analysis revealed challenges to collaborative governance of FEW nexus stakeholders, but the authors found that by leveraging bridging there are opportunities to increase collaborative governance between sectors.