By adding sustainability to its disciplinary profile, ASU's InnovationSpace - a yearlong product-design and -development program intent on tackling societal challenges - provided this year's students will an even broader set of skills with which to transform dry-erase board sketches into environmentally conscious, economically viable and life-changing prototypes.

In her new role, Distinguished Sustainability Scientist and Regents’ Professor of Law Rebecca Tsosie will help the Arizona State University community further understand and learn how to address complex issues associated with race, gender, ethnicity and other forms of diversity.

The new Conservation Research Training Program (PZSoLS CRTP) - created through a partnership between the Phoenix Zoo and School of Life Sciences (SoLS) at Arizona State University (ASU) - promotes

Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist Rebecca Tsosie is appointed vice provost for Inclusion and Community Engagement.  Her expertise will help the university continue to grow in the areas of

Article by sustainability scientists Shade Shutters, Rachata Muneepeerakul and Jose Lobo is featured in Palgrave Communications - a social science journal by the publishers who produce Nature.

NRG Energy, Inc. and Arizona State University are working together to develop a working prototype of a containerized solar and batterystorage solution designed to be deployed for disaster relief or

Determined to find solutions to current phosphorus concerns, sustainability scientists Jim Elser and Helen Rowe were among more than 40 other scientists, engineers, technical experts and policymakers from around the world to convene in Washington, D.C. at this May's "The Future of Phosphorus" event.

CBO Partner, The Earth Genome, recently released an exciting year one progress report. Earlier this year, the Earth Genome partnered with CBO and a team of ASU researchers to develop a series of

In their article in the current issue of Nature Climate Change, researchers Mikhail Chester and Matthew Bartos say that unless steps are taken to upgrade systems and technologies, power stations will be particularly vulnerable to projected increases in extreme heat and drought events.

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The National Environmental Education Foundation recently announced the appointment of George Basile - a sustainability scientist and professor in the School of Sustainability - to its Board of Directors, where his leadership in the field of sustainability within business and academic enterprises will serve as a great asset.

In an effort to capture items that were previously landfilled - such as coffee pods, cosmetic containers and water filters - the team behind ASU Recycling now offers the blue bag program, currently used in more than 52 buildings on ASU's Tempe campus.