Using his background in both finance and biology, sustainability scientist Shade Shutters has developed an algorithm that can determine which industries fit best in a particular city, as well as whether a city has the right makeup to become a “green” economic hub.

CBO and a team of partners assembled this summer at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara to discuss biodiversity and water conservation in business.

A video titled "How to apply resilience thinking" featured in a recent Stockholm Resilience Center newsletter illustrates the seven principles of resilience-building as outlined in a Cambridge publication authored in part by Micheal Schoon - a sustainability scientist and assistant professor in the School of Sustainability.

A newly-established Sustainable Research Network called the Urban Water Innovation Network - supported by a $12 million grant from the National Science Foundation - seeks to address challenges that threaten urban water systems around the world and features an ASU team led by sustainability scientist Matei Georgescu.

For many of us, it can be easy to let the relationship we share with our environment go unnoticed. Let’s get back to basics. Every time you take a breath,

In his essay, Reimagining Phoenix by Pitching Waste, John Trujillo explains how the city's transition from a linear to circular economy centers on a critical shift in the way trash

A Thought Leader Series Piece By John Trujillo Note: John Trujillo is the director of Public Works at the City of Phoenix and heads the City's Reimagine Phoenix initiative. In January

An international team featuring researchers from ASU's School of Life Sciences has determined how bees immunize their offspring against specific diseases - a discovery that could play an important role in helping to combat colony collapse disorder and improve global food security.

CBO is please to congratulate Helen Rowe on her new position as Director for the McDowell Sonoran Field Institute (MSFI). MSFI is the research center of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy

School of Sustainability professor Sonja Klinsky recently returned from a United Nations meeting in Bonn, Germany, where she helped fine-tune a draft of a global climate pact. Klinsky discusses what occurred at that meeting and the goals of the pact in this interview on Arizona Horizon.

In response to the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the National Science Foundation has awarded a transdisciplinary team of ASU scientists and their international sustainability research network $12 million to produce a suite of tools that support resilient, culturally appropriate and safe-to-fail urban infrastructure.

In this guest piece, Decision Center for a Desert City outreach coordinator Katie Peige shares the features of her sustainability-themed wedding to fellow School of Sustainability graduate Brad Baker, including second-hand dining ware, glasses crafted from old wine bottles and a zero waste goal that landed backyard chickens with the reception's leftovers.