Government purchasing: sustainability’s best kept secret?

Archimedes once observed that with a long enough lever he could move the world. In the case of moving the world to a more sustainable place, government purchasing could be

Why sustainability should be part of your business model

Our March newsletter features an invitation to our upcoming USAID/RTAC virtual workshop, inspiring articles about sustainability in business, and relevant events. Read about Nike's 2025 sustainability goals and learn why

YouthMappers has created an academy to build capacity for open humanitarian mapping

Sustainability scholar Patricia Solis is co-founder and director of YouthMappers, a rapidly-growing consortium of student-led chapters on more than 264 university campuses in 58 countries who create and use open spatial data for humanitarian and development needs

ASU retains top US spot for efforts toward UN sustainability goals

With sustainability long held as a core value across the entire university and home to the nation's first comprehensive Global Futures Laboratory, ASU was again ranked by Time Higher Education as the top US institution when it comes impacts made addressing 17 specific goals aimed at achieving a better world for 2030, known as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

New book: Resilient Urban Futures

A new open access book, Resilient Urban Futures, addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change.

Future Cities episode 48: Scenario Analysis for Resilient Urban Futures

Doctors Marta Berbes, Nancy Grimm, Robert Hobbins, and Timon McPhearson join Robert Lloyd to talk about how scenarios of future city transformations are analyzed and turned into products that can

New pillars of education to serve community in multiple ways

Broadening access to higher education, advancing research that helps people, and taking responsibility for the communities we serve are the three “pillars” around which the university will organize its efforts going forward.

The Sustainability Consortium releases 2021 impact report

The consortium's THESIS tool helps consumer goods companies have a positive impact: Manufacturers' scores improved 38% from 2016 to 2020.

Pursuing the goal of safe-yield isn't saving our groundwater

A new report by the Kyl Center for Water Policy explores what stands in the way of safe-yield and the limits of safe-yield. It offers new strategies and actions that should be considered to secure the long-term sustainability of groundwater in some of Arizona’s most populous regions.

Sefair secures half-million NSF CAREER award

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes facul affiliate Jorge Sefair, an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career

Housing is Health Care: New Morrison Institute report

It's considerably less costly to provide permanent supportive housing to people with chronic mental illness than if they experience frequent homelessness, a Morrison Institute report released May 12 concludes.

Johnson joins USEA board of directors

USEA's mission is to enhance energy access and energy security for developing countries, and the relationship with ASU will allow both organizations to provide greater innovation to the energy sector and increase solutions research delivered globally.