A Thought Leader Series Piece By Patricia Reiter Note: As the Director of the newly established Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, Patricia Reiter is responsible for overseeing the

School of Sustainability community-university liaison Katja Brundiers uses Living Learning Labs to turn research into campus and community projects that apply and teach sustainability.

China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.

Citizen science volunteers expanded on past Wrigley Lecture Series lecturer and climate scientist Naomi Oreskes' survey of climate journal articles in hopes of lessening the misconceptions behind climate change.

Sustainability Scientist Sharon Harlan says Phoenix is a perfect living lab to study urban heat island effects on vulnerable populations and that cool, green parks can help counteract increasing temperatures in cities.

Bruce Rittman, director of ASU's Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, is a leader in water quality research having developed the membrane biofilm reactor that uses bacteria to clean polluted water sources.

On May 1, 2013, Hank Foley, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate school at Pennsylvania State University, visited the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability to discuss the

This summer, two PowerParasol solar systems will be installed near the Memorial Union and on the Gammage Parkway medians. The PowerParasol systems are designed by Strategic Solar Energy, the same

Sustainability Scientist and School of Sustainability professor George Basile says more businesses are realizing that sustainability is not just good for the environment, but great for long-term profit as well.

Osvaldo Sala says he is proud to join a group that cares for the stewardship of the planet and admires the ESA for not only its growth in fellows, but also the breadth of sciences the fellows represent.

Board of Directors member Bob Litterman writes that because of climate change's uncertainty, it is in our best interest to price carbon emissions now at a price well above today's value of expected future damages.

This case study applies the theoretical concepts of frame and framing processes to identify and describe the diagnostic and prognostic frames for water sustainability expressed through an environmental decision support system.