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

Devoney Looser, Foundation Professor, Department of English

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.

Arizona State University Wins the 2016 Global Procurement Award for Sustainability

Under the leadership of Nichol Luoma – ASU associate vice president for University Business Services, University Sustainability Operations Officer and Chief Procurement Officer – the Arizona State University procurement team

Microalgal biomass production in testbeds using wastewater in Mexico

In June 2016, Thomas Dempster, Research Professor and Laboratory Manager for the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI), traveled to Queretaro, Mexico to install the two open-raceway ponds

ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes announces new Professors of Practice

As part of the recently established Knowledge Partnership with Conservation International (CI), ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes (CBO) is thrilled to announce six of CI’s leading scientists will join ASU