Sustainability Solutions Festival in full swing
During February, the Sustainability Solutions Festival convenes the planet’s top sustainability events and organizations to discover and explore how we can individually and collectively reimagine our lives and our planet. The festival will close with the annual GreenBiz event, February 26-28.
Sustainability professor starts term as president of commons community
This month Marco Janssen, a professor in the School of Sustainability and director of the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, started his two-year term as president of the
Board member pens op-ed for New York Times
An op-ed by Bob Litterman, titled "The Very High Costs of Climate Risk," was published by the New York Times. Litterman used the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's demise as an example of how climate change impacts business, and discussed a carbon tax can as a climate change solution.
Building a better future
The Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 7, designed by architect firms Architekton and Grimshaw, will serve as a new gateway to ASU's Tempe campus. The high-performance facility will foster an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge generation and leading-edge research, including innovative endeavors focusing on the sustainability of food, water and energy.
In pursuit of happiness
ASU Now asked several Arizona State University professors about how our relationships with each other, the world around us and ourselves can make us happy. One faculty member they interviewed
Building a better future
cfo.asu.edu The Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 7 will serve as a new gateway to the ASU Tempe campus. The approximately 258,000 gross-square-foot, high-performance research facility will foster an interdisciplinary
Next board meeting coming soon
The next meeting for the Board of Directors of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability will be held February 25-26 in Phoenix, Arizona. Meeting materials will be available on the board website shortly. Should you have questions, please reach out to Emma Hopson via email at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing many of you soon!
Sustainability scholar presents at Davos
Amanda Ellis, executive director of Hawaii and Asia Pacific in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, was part of a panel discussion at the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland.
Natural Capital Protocol for the Oceans Workshop
The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is partnering with the Natural Capital Coalition, Conservation International, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to develop a Natural Capital
Alumna lands job as sustainability manager
Congratulations to Arizona State University School of Sustainability alumna Debbie Namugayi, who in early 2019 started work as Eastern Kentucky University’s new sustainability manager. Namugayi earned her master's degree in
The role forests play in poverty alleviation
ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Associate Director for Conservation Evidence Samantha Cheng was the lead author of a paper titled “A systemic map of evidence on the contribution of forests to poverty alleviation.”
Conservation through conversation
Written by Katie Surrey-Bergman Three thousand miles by plane, two and a half hours by car over the high-altitude mountain ranges of Quito, an additional six and half more hours