Many contributors across the PLuS Alliance partner universities – executives, advisers, researchers, academics, educators, students and professional staff – bring expertise, passion and a collaborative spirit to help make PLuS Alliance a success.

Laundry and dishwasher pods: The simplicity of grabbing a pod and tossing it into a washing machine or dishwasher has made them a popular choice for many consumers for nearly

Transforming Women’s Leadership Pathways, an initiative of the PLuS Alliance, has been selected as a case study for the SDSN’s Accelerating Education for the SDGs in Universities to be showcased in the upcoming SDSN International Conference on Sustainable Development, set for Sept. 20-21. The case study is a joint submission between ASU, UNSW and King’s College.

The spaces between fields—or the “borderlands” between disciplines—represent unique opportunities for social inquiry. Scholarly Borderlands, an initiative of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), invites proposals for interdisciplinary working groups

Sustainability scholars Iveta Silova and Adriene Jenik believe our future survival depends on a paradigm shift in our relationship with nature. They will present climate action and ecological justice flashcards for education futures at the UN conference in Glasgow this November.

Scholarly Borderlands, an initiative of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), invites proposals for interdisciplinary working groups that ask novel questions, develop new frameworks, rethink methodological approaches, and find innovative answers. Deadline: Sept. 13.

Sustainability scientist Jennifer Vanos has been studying the searing heat of Tokyo Olympic venues for more than two years, publishing a suite of papers on subjects including planning for spectator thermal comfort, a climatological analysis and the need for integrated heat management planning.

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A resilience researcher and blogger compares sustainability scientist Shade Shutters to a wise forester, looking not at what makes trees fall, but what makes them stand. It's an interesting take on a new piece out in the journal Sustainability.

Read on for an interview with Chase Farnsworth, Senior Sustainability Fellow, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation and Senior Project Development Manager, Phoenix Office, Mortenson.

On Aug. 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its report on the physical science basis of climate change. Please tell us how your work ties to this topic. Take our four-question survey.

The Tokyo Olympics, starting July 23, will be remembered for three things: a complete lack of spectators, being postponed a year because of a pandemic and searing heat. Sustainability scientist