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

Morrison Institute launches new center for water policy

With a mission of reaching consensus for wise water policy and lasting solutions in Arizona, the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy was launched on Nov. 14.

First ASU charter serves as model for higher education

Presenting a paradigmatic shift in the way a university can act as a force for good, ASU announces its first official charter, a document that focuses the university’s mission on the inclusion and success of all its students, and on a responsibility to the communities it serves.

Sustainability scientists aid national effort to improve water quality

With the goal of eliminating water contaminants that present challenges to communities worldwide, engineers Kiril Hristovski and Paul Westerhoff will work as part of a new, EPA-funded center where they will develop and test sustainable, purifying technologies.

Students build sustainable communities through fellowship program

In its new phase within the ASU Wrigley Institute, the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family continues its tradition of advancing inexpensive, safe and sustainable housing through a new student fellowship program.

Walton Initiatives further Albania's transition to sustainable education

Assisting Albania’s transition to sustainable national education, Walton Initiatives’ Global Sustainability Solutions Services will harness ASU’s extensive resources to complete a cost-benefit analysis of energy efficiency in the country's public schools.

CBO affiliates support call for inclusion in conservation

As CBO prepares to celebrate it's launch this week with the arrival of Dr. Georgina Mace, Nature publishes a call for broader participation in conservation. The call is signed by