ASU offers an exciting, new opportunity for students to apply for funding by proposing projects that make any of the ASU campuses more sustainable.

City of Phoenix Cool Urban Spaces Project Urban forestry and cool roofs: Assessment of heat mitigation strategies in Phoenix Prepared by the Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges at

Rick Heffernon, former senior writer/editor at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and lead author of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy’s groundbreaking report “Sustainability for Arizona,” has served as an Arizona Trail steward for over 15 years. In this Park and Recreation Month-inspired essay, he examines how trails sustain the physical, emotional and economic well-being of our communities.

Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems: the sustainability wheel Published online in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management on July 11, 2014. Authors Flurina Schneider (a,b,e), Mariano Bonriposi

James Collins, a senior sustainability scientist and evolutionary ecologist at ASU, leads an interdisciplinary research team examining the scientific, ethical and regulatory issues that could arise from the use of a genetic engineering technology called gene drives.

In Fall 2013 CAP's Ecology Explorers program began a partnership with Homeward Bound, an organization that provides transitional housing, employment services, and other forms of support to low-income families with children

James Collins discusses a call for rapid adaptation and leadership in research and educational institutions. Leadership and Change in Twenty-First Century Higher Education. BioScience. 5, June 2014.

Ben Minteer reflects on the importance of acknowledging our limited ability to right our wrongs. "Is it right to reverse extinction?". Nature. 14, May 2014.

The report on the results of the World Wide Views on Biodiversity Project Global mediation. The mediation took place worldwide on September 15, 2012. Meetings in the United States were

This year's Forum for Sustainable Health served as a kick-off for “Project HoneyBee,” an endeavor to develop wearable sensors that improve patient outcomes while reducing costs yet present technological challenges, according to distinguished sustainability scientist and forum speaker Lee Hartwell.

The McDowell Sonoran Conservancy has received private funding to support one Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Fellow per year for three years, beginning Fall 2015. Contact us for application information.

Chemistry professor Petra Fromme and two distinguished sustainability scientists, Tom and Ana Moore, are among the authors of a study recently published in Nature, which obtained images of water split into protons, electrons and oxygen using the world's most powerful X-ray.