Private sector, climate change impacts

ASU-Conservation International Professor of Practice David Hole, recently co-authored a paper in Nature called, “The private sector’s climate change risk and adaptation blind spots.” Abstract: The private sector is already

Fischer appointed to board of sustainable consumption organization

Assistant Professor Daniel Fischer from Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability has been appointed as a board member to SCORAI, the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative. Fischer is a

Meet sustainability senior Sawyer Treese

School of Sustainability senior Sawyer Treese is a proud Sun Devil. Since both of his parents are Arizona State University alumni and he’s lived in Arizona his whole life, it’s

Building resilience in Maricopa County communities

All communities experience stresses. They can be sudden shocks (floods, earthquakes) or they can be long-term, constant stresses. In each instance, how well the community survives the stress or shock

Natural Capital Protocol for the Ocean Workshop

On Friday, December 7, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST in Washington, D.C., the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes will join other organizations in discussing how businesses depend

Are co-ops the business model of the future in Arizona?

Workshop event on co-ops aims to take a step toward an inclusive, sustainable statewide economy. If the word “co-op” makes you think of a group of hippies sitting around unable

Using stormwater as a resource

On December 5, Arizona State University’s Decision Center for a Desert City, a unit of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, hosted a panel discussion called "Innovative Stormwater

Future cities episode 16: Safe-to-fail adaptation

In this episode, Dr. Yeowon Kim explains the difference between “fail-safe” and “safe-to-fail” infrastructure and how shifting towards this new “safe-to-fail" design paradigm could help cities prepare for extreme events

Meet Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership alumna Julie Hopwood

You might think that a mostly-online graduate program would be impersonal. But, as Arizona State University alumna Julie Hopwood tells it, that’s far from the case with the Executive Master

GLI at the Entomological Society of America Meeting, Vancouver 2018

It was great to see so many Global Locust Initiative members and friends at the November 2018 joint ESA, ESC and ESBC meeting in Vancouver. There were excellent talks highlighting

Sustainability scientist leads Geography 2050 symposium connecting geography and energy

This year’s Geography 2050 symposium, hosted by the American Geographical Society, went off without a hitch. According to the AGS Chief Executive Officer John Konarski, that’s because of the hard

Big power from a small container

With a $2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research, an Arizona State University professor is working to improve on his solar-powered, electrical grid-in-a-box for use in far-flung corners