Sustainability scientist contributes to Royal Society resilience report

A recent Royal Society resilience report - informed in part by CAP LTER Director Nancy Grimm - advises that communities take steps to prepare for extreme weather events, which are expected to increase in frequency as the earth warms.

Integrating sustainability education into K-12 schools

A recent article, published in The Journal of Environmental Education, details the findings of a study produced by the ASU Wrigley Institute's Sustainability Science for Sustainable Schools program. The study, conducted by School

Six lessons to boost your climate vocabulary

Right now, political-types from virtually every country in the world are gathering in Peru to talk about climate change. They're working toward a major international agreement about how every nation

Klinsky: How policy can help mitigate climate change

During the first two weeks of December, representatives from virtually every country in the world will gather at a United Nations convention to talk about climate change. They're developing an

CBO receives external support for collaboration with US Fish and Wildlife Service

CBO and partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Mission:Wildlife and the University of Maryland were awarded support from the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) to develop new

Urban Sustainability Best Practices Class, Presentations

Over the course of the last 15 weeks, the School of Sustainability senior and graduate students have been applying their textbook knowledge to real world scenarios. Several municipalities and other

Ray Jensen: Thought Leader Series

Ray Jensen is ASU’s Associate Vice President for Integrated Business Relationships and an advocate for disability services, equity and inclusion. In this essay, Jensen advocates for a new, collaborative model

Regarding Inclusion – Do We Leave Anyone Behind?

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Ray Jensen Note: December marks eight years since the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted at the United Nations headquarters

ASU-Nigeria partnership to generate waste-related solutions

Through a partnership with the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network - an effort between ASU’s Global Sustainability Solutions Services and the City of Phoenix - RISN Nigeria was established to improve sanitation infrastructure in the rapidly growing city of Lagos.

Sustainability course views green buildings as embedded in ecosystems

Inspired by the Living Building Challenge, a new course called Creating Living Buildings - offered through ASU’s School of Sustainability - encourages students to view green buildings as doing "more good" rather than "less bad."

ASU partners with international network to improve lives worldwide

The Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives is the newest of 23 internationally renowned members belonging to Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) – a nonprofit committed to improving life through the development and implementation of USAID-funded programs focused on energy, water, agriculture and economic development across the globe.

Carbon Farming: Healthy soil and ecology go hand in hand

When we think about the main sources of greenhouse gases, we don’t typically consider dirt as being one of them. But, it’s true. Just by plowing their fields, farmers have