Green infrastructure is a unifying theme across the UREx SRN network cities, given its potential for stormwater management along with other benefits like heat mitigation and aesthetic improvements. Green infrastructure

Comprising only some 8% of political leaders globally, women have accounted for an estimated 40% of the most successful responses to COVID-19. Women-led countries have a six-times lower death rate than those led by male counterparts in similar countries.

Sustainability scientist Deirdre Pfeiffer explains the history of the AFFH, what she views as its strengths, her concerns about its repeal, and how local municipalities can continue making progress toward creating inclusionary and equitable neighborhoods despite the repeal.

Flooding impacts more people than any other natural disaster. Bessie Schwarz, a grassroots environmental and community organizer by training and at heart, is the CEO and Co-founder of Cloud to

During our week-long immersion trip to Washington DC, we had the pleasure of meeting with Kevin Concannon, a man with an incredible history of public service, and who most recently served for nearly eight years as President Obama’s USDA Under Secretary of Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services.

Gary F. Moore, assistant professor in Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and scientist in the ASU Biodesign Institute Center for Applied Structural Discovery, was awarded a grant from

All are invited to attend a conversation with acclaimed historian Carol Anderson, human and civil rights advocate, expert on African American history and 20th-century politics and the author of the critically-acclaimed "White Rage." The event is sponsored by ASU's Institute for Humanities Research.

"We need to fundamentally reassess what our systems need to be able to deliver, and under what conditions," said sustainability scientist Mikhail Chester in an August 8 article in the Washington Post.

Convergence Lab/ASU in Mexico is hosting an online event with sustainability scientist Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, and Alexandra Zapata, a researcher, activist, and former deputy director of the prestigious think tank Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad.

Jessica Lerner, a recent graduate of the Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL), sees sustainability as starting on an individual level and expanding outward. “Global issues...can feel overwhelming, but things

ASU ShapingEDU hosted Learning(Hu)Man, a summer camp experience in which over 2,600 registered education changemakers pushed the creative envelope for how to serve students and advance learner success. Campers explored best practices in learning design, edtech tools, and emergent thinking around the art of the possible.

View the latest newsletter from the Sustainable Cities Network: SCN INFO OF INTEREST: 8/5/2020 (PDF)