Future Cities Episode 52: Nature-based solutions and you

Green infrastructure (GI) and nature-based solutions (NBS) are relatively new concepts in expert circles, at least by those terms. In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Cook and Clair Cooper join first-time

Swette Center comments on USDA meat processing investments

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment regarding the investments and opportunities for meat and poultry processing infrastructure. We at the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Arizona State University applaud the attention to meat processing as a key strategy to build back better.

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Sept. 2: Food. Nature. People.

ASU’s Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems is a partner in this international, virtual and free event, which will provide actionable scientific evidence to fundamentally transform agriculture and land management.

Sept 7: Workshop on Reimagining Climate Futures

Workshop participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to create their own narratives on climate-policy interventions, focusing on issues including climate migration and displacement, advocacy and coalition-building and transforming institutions and industries.

Sept. 1-2: Advancing Women, Peace and Security in the Indo-Pacific

Global Futures scientists Pamela DeLargy and Laura Hosman are participating on behalf of ASU in a two-day conference hosted by Pacific Forum International. Topics include cultivating a culture of allyship in security, building bridges between CSOs and local government, WPS in the defense sector, gender and preventing/countering violent extremism, and gender and climate security in the Indo-Pacific.

Entrepreneur Magazine: These are the reasons why you will return to your desk

In a piece for The Conversation and republished in Entrepreneur magazine, Global Futures Scientist Deborah Salon and colleagues talk about the future of the office after the coronavirus lockdown. Entrepreneur has a readership of over 3 million.

The Conversation: Organic food has room to grow

Significant Figure: 82%. This is the share of Americans who buy some organic food on a regular basis. Although organics have gone mainstream, Kathleen Merrigan says the sector still has room to grow. Read more in her most recent piece for The Conversation, which to date has been republished 37 times.

Rethinking resources and conservation

Bryan Leonard says laws regarding natural resources on public land are antiquated and prevent voluntary conservation. “Use-it-or-lose-it requirements ... can preclude environmental groups from participating in markets for natural resources," he said.

Announcing GFORS, the Global Futures Office of Research Services

GFORS is your one-stop virtual shop for research development, research advancement, proposal support, analytics, events, communications, business operations and human resource services. Each GFORS “department” has its own intake form to request services; find them on the GFL website.

California wildfires make underground utilities an infrastructure priority

Trenchless technology expert Samuel Ariaratnam talks about the plans of California’s largest electricity provider's to start burying power lines in fire zones.

TNF Superfamily Arming and Leukocyte Based Delivery of Oncolytic Myxoma Virus in a Syngeneic Murine Lung Metastasis Model

Presented by John Christie, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy Viroholics is a weekly seminar series hosted by the Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy. Join via Zoom from Pc, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://asu.zoom.us/j/88240683626