Quest for clean energy comes with complexities
Sustainability Scientist Mikhail Chester comments about artificial photosynthesis as a means for supplying energy and the complex "hidden costs of energy" in a recent Cosmos Magazine article.
Center for Environmental Security to research water contamination sources
Rolf Halden, director of ASU's new Center for Environmental Security, says researchers must first identify the way we pick and produce chemicals for our daily needs and then educate the consumers.
ASU recognized for its dedication to sustainable construction
ASU received two awards from the Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and has the highest number of LEED-certified buildings in Arizona.
ASU-Intel collaboration challenges students to imagine brighter sustainable futures
The Tomorrow Project USA writing competition, "Green Dreams," is an effort to focus on the positive side of sustainability, instead of spreading messages of what we shouldn't do.
Wicked problems: How systems thinking, technology and new partnerships can tackle sustainability’s challenges
A Thought Leader Series Piece By Bruno Sarda Note: Bruno Sarda is the director of global sustainability operations at Dell, a consultant for the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives,
Conservation Alliance initiative receives grant to study Phoenix mountain preserves
The Alliance, which includes ASU's CAP LTER program, plans to use the $300,000 grant to begin several projects this winter focusing on open land conservation and recreation opportunities.
The Sustainability Consortium featured in Scientific American
In a piece called "World Changing Ideas 2012," The Sustainability Consortium details its Ultimate Sustainability Index; a system that forces corporations to clean up all stages of the supply chain.
Team advances their hunger-fighting venture at national competition
Student team FlashFlood earned the Best in Showcase award at the YUM! Global Sustainability Challenge and says they learned how to improve their mobile app service that coordinates leftover food distribution.
Clean energy, the great convener: Director Peter Byck says we are not as polarized as we think
Last month, film director Peter Byck visited ASU Tempe campus to speak to an audience about lessons learned from touring and filming his documentary Carbon Nation. Byck toured the nation
Professor sets high goals in supporting urban and crop sustainability
Sustainability Scientist Soe Myint received funding for three proposals that utilize satellite imagery to estimate crop resiliency and climate variations.
Colorado River high flow experiment
via USGS Science Features on November 14, 2012By Jack Schmidt and Barbara Wilcox More than 16 years of USGS science will come to fruition next week in the Grand Canyon
ASU adds composting program, joins EPA Food Recovery Challenge
To celebrate America Recycles Day, ASU now has composting bins at the Hassayampa and Barrett, The Honors College dining halls that compost all food and paper food-service items.