Navy technician graduates in engineering, sustainability
School days for Carl Harris were not the routine experience they are for most college students. Harris has been on active duty or reserve status for the U.S. Navy for
ASU expertise in analytics helps bring major international conference to Phoenix
“Among featured speakers will be ASU professors George Poste and Edward Prescott. Poste is an ASU Regents’ Professor, chief scientist of the university’s Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative and the Del
UREx and International Institute of Tropical Forestry collaborate on post-hurricane efforts
The UREx SRN has been highlighted for its collaborative effort with The International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) to support hurricane recovery in urban areas. This effort is focused on San
Meet the Disruptors: Disrupt/Create/Sustain
As the largest university in the country Arizona State University inevitably makes quite a bit of waste. Sure we have a Zero Waste initiative, and we recycle and compost, but
Board website updated
In preparation for the upcoming meeting in Washington DC, your board website has been recently updated. Please use the password “board” to access meeting materials.
Points of pride for 2017
At the fall board meeting, we rolled out a fiscal-year 2017 edition of our annual accomplishments magazine in a new, smaller format. Find out what else happened in 2017 in the latest edition of sustainability@asu, just released.
Future Cities podcast episode 9: What IS resilience?
We hear the term used all over the place: in music, on TV, in books– but what IS resilience? In this episode, we discuss resilience from the Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS)
Watch convocation live online
School of Sustainability holds its spring convocation ceremony in Gammage Auditorium on Thursday, May 10. Watch live at 4:30 p.m. Arizona time.
ASU-Conservation International celebrate promising year, plan for the second
The ASU-Conservation International annual retreat was held April 23-26, 2018 at the ASU Tempe campus. The retreat celebrated the successful first year of the partnership and outlined priorities for subsequent
Global urbanization issues addressed in new book
Two staff members at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability are editors of a new book, “Urban Planet: Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities,” released by Cambridge University
Global funding for biodiversity conservation
On April 25, 2018, the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and the Global Drylands Center hosted Daniel Miller, an assistant professor in Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at
Training the next generation of conservation leaders
The ASU and Conservation International partnership continues to advance one of its three main goals, which is to train the next generation of conservation leaders. A recent article by CI’s