A study published in Science and co-authored by School of Sustainability Professor Marty Anderies indicates that social norms may have a greater effect on individual behaviorial changes than policy alone – a finding reinforced by other sustainability scientists at ASU.

What makes communities successful in managing their shared resources, such as forests and water? This was a central question addressed by the late Elinor Ostrom, the founding director of Arizona

Christopher Frettoloso, a senior sustainability major and co-founder of BetR-Blok, LLC, talks about his company’s sustainable building material in a recent State Press article. BetR-Bloks are created using recycled paper and

Tackling a myriad of subjects, from the dropping levels of water in Lake Mead to the merits and pitfalls of measures like desalination, a three-part series published in ASU Now captures the breadth of work ASU sustainability scientists are undertaking to protect water in the arid West.

ASU's date grove is the No. 2 collection in the U.S., full of rare varieties sold to the ASU community and the public. ASU students, staff and community volunteers work to

The word mutation conjures many images in the popular mind, virtually all of them negative. Mutations in the human genome cause crippling birth abnormalities and are the source of innumerable

Through funding provided by the Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation, ASU will award a limited number of scholarships of up to $15,000 to professionals seeking to accelerate their careers through the Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership program.

The 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest challenged writers around the world to create short stories that imagined possible futures for Earth and humanity transformed by climate change. More than 700

The U.S. Forest Service is hosting a series of upcoming meetings in Arizona and want to make sure the larger community is aware of the public involvement opportunity to lend

ASU partners with the Change the Course campaign to replenish water all around the world. By using the hashtag #MakeItRainASU on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, social media users can help ASU restore up

Saurabh Biswas, a PhD student in Sustainability, spent his summer visioning sustainability in Rio Claro, an agricultural village of the Delfim Moreira municipality, in Minas Gerais, Brazil as part of

A paper authored by sustainability scientists Ariel Anbar and Braden Allenby, along with sustainability fellow Wally Broecker, looks at the Anthropocene as an evolutionary transition to an epoch in which