Can carbon-dioxide removal save the world?
Carbon-dioxide removal could be a trillion-dollar enterprise because it not only slows the rise in CO2 but reverses it. Many companies are vying to prove that carbon removal is feasible, but
Sustainability lecturer awarded for paper on sustainable business bundles
Shirley-Ann Augustin-Behravesh, a lecturer with the School of Sustainability, won the Decision Sciences Institute's conference paper competition for her outstanding thesis research paper titled "Uncovering Sustainable Business Practice Bundles." Augustin-Behravesh's
20th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting
Save the date! CAP LTER will be holding its 20th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting on January 5th, 2018 at ASU's SkySong facility in Scottsdale. Weiqi Zhou, Professor
Wild Freedom: The Border and its Environmental Impact [film]
On November 15, 2017, The ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society hosted a film screening of “Wild Freedom: The Border and its Environmental Impact,” followed by a
Growing a plant-based brand in the world of 'Big Food'
In a November 2017 interview with Nil Zacharias on his One Green Planet podcast #EatForThePlanet, Sweet Earth Enlightened Foods CEO Kelly Swette discusses her decision to sell the company to food giant Nestlé, as well as the future of plant-based foods in general.
From #COP23: Why does carbon pricing matter?
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development and ASU LightWorks® believe that carbon pricing is one of the most efficient means of driving the transition to a low-carbon world. As
Small donations helped save an endangered species
ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Faculty Affiliate Jan Schipper led an online PitchFunder campaign to save the Atelopus varius last year. Through this successful initiative and philanthropic support, these harlequin
Alan AtKisson: Thought Leader Series
What lessons can the U.S. Army impart on a sustainability movement in need of momentum? More than a few, according to this Thought Leader Series essay – titled "Seeing the
Seeing the mission through: growing an army for sustainability
A Thought Leader Series Piece by Alan AtKisson When it comes to sustainability as it is practiced today, I helped get a number of things started, from the use of
Ecosystem Services and Key Biodiversity Areas
The Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) working group on Ecosystem Services and Key Biodiversity Areas, co-led by Penny Langhammer and Leah Gerber of the ASU Center for Biodiversity
UREx researchers highlighted on PECS II blog
Recently, several researchers from the UREx SRN attended the Program on Ecosystem Change and Society II (PECS) Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico where they detailed the importance of green infrastructure. UREx
The Conversation features article by the Knowledge Systems Innovation Task Force
Three UREx SRN researchers of the Knowledge Systems Innovation Group – Clark Miller, Thaddeus Miller, and Tischa Muñoz-Erickson – recently authored an article featured on The Conversation. The article comes