How to activate an AASHE account

Arizona State University faculty and staff are already members of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. AASHE is home to the STARS rating sytem, offers

Standardizing species recovery efforts

Graduate students from the ASU School of Life Sciences’ Conservation Innovation Lab, which Professor Leah Gerber leads, published a paper today titled “Aligning actions with objectives in endangered species recovery

Decision science and data tools

Science is not enough. We need to translate knowledge into action to produce positive outcomes in biodiversity conservation. That is why one of our main goals at the ASU Center

How to activate an AASHE account

Arizona State University faculty and staff are already members of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Here's how to activate your account.

Helping each other to avoid and recover from disaster

What can we learn from developing societies around the world about mitigating risk and sharing resources during a disaster? When disasters happen, we often have to rely on others to

Faculty spotlight: Al Brown

We are pleased to highlight one of the network’s outstanding faculty members, Mr. Al Brown. Al is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Environmental Research Initiatives at ASU’s Polytechnic campus.

SCN Steering Committee appoints new chair and co-chairs

Early this Spring, ASU’s Sustainable Cities Network (SCN) Steering Committee appointed new city leadership to help guide the collaborative community network into the next year. Serving as the new chair

Seeking admin and communications intern

The ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is currently seeking an enthusiastic, sustainability-minded intern to support its daily administrative and communication projects. Through this opportunity, interns will enhance transferable skills such

SCN Steering Committee appoints new chair and co-chairs

Early this Spring, ASU’s Sustainable Cities Network (SCN) Steering Committee appointed new city leadership to help guide the collaborative community network into the next year. Serving as the new chair

COVID-19: A one-year review

As COVID-19 threatened the lives, livelihoods and mental well-being of people worldwide, Arizona State University met the unprecedented challenges with speed, agility and, most of all, teamwork. As part of

New paper: Sustainable consumption communication

The paper by sustainability scientists Daniel Fischer, Tyler DesRoches and co-authors provides a review of sustainable consumption communication (SCC) as a field of research. Analyzing 67 papers, the authors describe 4 types of SCC research that conceptualize and relate the terms very differently.

June 9-11: IASC conference on knowledge commons

Topics include: innovation spaces; digital resources like Wikipedia and Stack exchange; open-source software development; the future of science and education; the archival of existing knowledge; cultural commons; and citizen science.