Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Turns Brownfield to Greenfield
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) is turning a former Brownfield site into an Environmental Education Demonstration Garden. The site, formerly called the Beeline Gravel Pit, was a raceway-turned-disposal
Biodegradable plastics made from bacteria
By employing cyanobacteria – a photosynthesis-happy bug – Senior Sustainability Scientist Taylor Weiss is making environmentally-friendly bioplastics that dissolve in a matter of months.
Linked food systems affect global governance
School of Sustainability Associate Professor Hallie Eakin is the lead author of a new article in the Ecology and Society journal. The article, titled "Transforming governance in telecoupled food systems," uses case studies
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Pest management in coupled human-natural systems in developing countries
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with training in resource economics, quantitative human geography, land systems science, or similar. The Fellow will develop an innovative research program in
Marine reserves connectivity and global warming
ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber and Faculty Associate Maria del Mar Mancha-Cisneros recently co-authored a publication led by Jorge Alvarez Romero and other conservation scientists around
Future Cities podcast episode 5: Green gentrification and urban agriculture
UREx SRN researchers Jason Sauer and Marissa Matsler talk with Portland State University associate professor of urban studies and planning, Nathan McClintock, about green gentrification in the context of urban
Water management in Brazil
One of the most pressing global challenges for sustainable development in the era of the Anthropocene is freshwater management. Water is a fundamental human necessity and essential to improve social
Future Cities podcast episode 4: Scenario workshops
In our first Spanish episode, we talk about one of the most important activities in the Urban Resilience to Extreme Events Sustainability Research Network (UREx-SRN). Experts from the network talk
Here's to another year enabling better lives through sustainability
Thank you for being part of the world's most innovative sustainability laboratory and supporting our effort to advance solutions, engagement, education, research and the U.N. Sustainability Development Goals – both around
Student makes huge impact with wine and butterflies during undergraduate internship
Christine Carmazzi, an undergraduate student pursuing her Bachelor’s in the international development track, was able to obtain the highly sought after Sustainability and Harvest internship at the Patton Valley Vineyard.
Direct air capture of CO2 engineered design
The world can no longer postulate a scenario that maintains global temperature rise at or below 4 degrees C, without significant removal of existing CO2 from the air. Based on
Sneak peek inside ASU's Biodesign C expansion under construction
Biodesign C, the $120 million building expansion of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, continues to rise along Rural Road at ASU’s Tempe campus. Much of the building is