Sour orange harvest puts squeeze on sustainability

More than 100 volunteers – including ASU students, faculty, staff and alumni – converge each February to collect oranges from 140 trees on the Tempe campus. Though the ASU community may

Assigning a dollar value to natural capital

School of Sustainability professor Joshua Abbott is among the authors of a study, published in February 2016 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that calculates the value of natural capital with the same economic principles used to value traditional assets.

Addressing the need for ecological expertise in business

Ecologists who are motivated to achieve real impact in nature conservation should consider engaging with the corporate sector, say sustainability scientists Leah Gerber and Sheila Bonini, who are among the authors of a February 2016 editorial that makes this case.

Center for Biodiversity Outcomes to lead events at 2016 World Conservation Congress 

Three Arizona State University faculty and Center for Biodiversity Outcomes affiliates will be leading events at the September 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in

Recognition: Sustainability scientists named Regents' Professors

Five of the seven newest Regents’ Professors are sustainability scientists: Janet Franklin, Petra Fromme, Edward Kavazanjian, Robert Page Jr. and Billie Turner II. Regents’ Professor is the highest faculty honor and goes to full

A conference on climate change, from a gender perspective

ASU sustainability experts, including Global Sustainability Solutions Services Practice Lead Rajesh Buch, provided international best practices and shared knowledge at the first-ever gender and climate change conference, held in Jordan in February 2016 by the USAID Takamol- Gender Program.

Professor’s work sustains global respect

B. L.Turner II, Professor of Environment and Society in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of Sustainability Named as a Regents’ Professor, the highest faculty honor at Arizona State University

Publication - A Paradox of Plenty: Renewable Energy on Navajo Nation Lands

Mike Pasqualetti's paper "A Paradox of Plenty: Renewable Energy on Navajo Nation Lands" is published in the journal Society and Natural Resources. ABSTRACT - A persistent paradox in the global boom

Sustainability Solutions Festival: (re)imagine our Home!

Arizona will once again be on the spotlight as it hosts the Fourth Sustainability Solutions Festival, organized by ASU Walton Sustainability Solution Initiatives. Everyone is invited to the #Sustival to

Long-term study shows impact of humans on land

Michael Barton Now researchers from Arizona State University are reporting on a 10-year project that studies the long term effects humans have had on the land - and the consequences

New tool helps corporations apply analytics to water use

ASU's Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is behind a revolutionary Green Infrastructure Support Tool that helps corporations like Dow Chemical apply analytics to their water use, simultaneously supporting water conservation, habitat restoration and the bottom line.

Studying the effects of neighborhood gardens

ASU researchers, including senior sustainability scientist and lead principal investigator Alex Maholov, are developing a physics-based model utilizing weather and farming data to predict environmental, economic and socio-economic impacts of increased urban agriculture.