Event: Valentine’s Day at the Tempe campus Farmers Market
Tuesday, February 12, 20139:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.Orange Mall, west of the MU fountainArizona State University, Tempe campus At the Farmers Market @ the Tempe campus, guest vendors will have
The Sustainability Consortium launches Electronics Delphi Panel
The Electronics Delphi Panel consists of experts who will develop metrics for the ideal electronics takeback program, which currently does not exist.
Spotlight on ASU Research at ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) is hosting its fourth annual Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D.C. on February 25-27, 2013. The event is designed to collect esteemed
Event: Using Project-Based Learning to Teach Sustainability
Mark Henderson Director, GlobalResolveCo-Founder, InnovationSpace Micah Lande Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering The sustainability movement is gaining momentum, but to keep the momentum going, it is important to prepare future
DCDC research highlights from recent poster symposia
DCDC researchers shared their research at several conferences and meetings in the first half of the 2012-2013 academic year. From topics ranging from The Social Ecology of Residential Land Management
Your Warming World from New Scientist Magazine
New Scientist Magazine was launched in 1956 "for all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery, and in its industrial, commercial and social consequences". In an interactive
Innovation, patenting fuels economy
A Brookings Institution report, co-authored by Sustainability Scientist José Lobo, finds Phoenix among the top 20 for U.S. patents from 2007 to 2011.
Discovering how cities can be smarter, safer, and more sustainable
Q&A with José Lobo Note: José Lobo is a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability, associate professor of research at the School of Sustainability, and faculty associate
ASU partners with the Netherlands on new center to solve sustainability challenges
The Global Sustainability Solutions Center in Haarlemmermeer is planned to become a 'Silicon Valley of innovation and sustainability' in Europe.
Faculty spotlight: Nicole Darnall
Before joining Arizona State University, Nicole Darnall was an associate professor of management and public policy at George Mason University and an assistant professor of public administration at North Carolina
Getting outside the water box: The need for new approaches to water planning and policy
DCDC founding director, Patricia Gober, writes in the January 15, 2013 editorial for the journal Water Resources Management, that North American water systems are inadequately prepared to deal with an
Urban heat island research featured in International Innovation magazine
CAP co-PI Sharon Harlan and the research team on the National Science Foundation-funded "Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change" project are featured in a special issue of International Innovation that focuses on making