Conservation Alliance initiative receives grant to study Phoenix mountain preserves
The Alliance, which includes ASU's CAP LTER program, plans to use the $300,000 grant to begin several projects this winter focusing on open land conservation and recreation opportunities.
The Sustainability Consortium featured in Scientific American
In a piece called "World Changing Ideas 2012," The Sustainability Consortium details its Ultimate Sustainability Index; a system that forces corporations to clean up all stages of the supply chain.
Team advances their hunger-fighting venture at national competition
Student team FlashFlood earned the Best in Showcase award at the YUM! Global Sustainability Challenge and says they learned how to improve their mobile app service that coordinates leftover food distribution.
Clean energy, the great convener: Director Peter Byck says we are not as polarized as we think
Last month, film director Peter Byck visited ASU Tempe campus to speak to an audience about lessons learned from touring and filming his documentary Carbon Nation. Byck toured the nation
Professor sets high goals in supporting urban and crop sustainability
Sustainability Scientist Soe Myint received funding for three proposals that utilize satellite imagery to estimate crop resiliency and climate variations.
Colorado River high flow experiment
via USGS Science Features on November 14, 2012By Jack Schmidt and Barbara Wilcox More than 16 years of USGS science will come to fruition next week in the Grand Canyon
ASU adds composting program, joins EPA Food Recovery Challenge
To celebrate America Recycles Day, ASU now has composting bins at the Hassayampa and Barrett, The Honors College dining halls that compost all food and paper food-service items.
ASU groups seek to collaborate, construct interdisciplinary energy narrative
The Energy, Ethics, Society, and Policy research community meets to combine stories that capture the realities of clean energy and show how energy interacts with us on a daily basis.
Embracing diversity and fostering access to science for all
In an ASU News op-ed piece, Sustainability Scientist Tirupalavanam Ganesh asserts that women are needed in the hard sciences to enhance research enterprises and share creative perspectives.
Wastewater recovery research earns NASA grant
Sustainability Scientist Mary Laura Lind is set to use the $200,000 grant to develop anti-corrosion polymer membranes fortified against highly acidic solutions and salts to be used for water filtration.
ASU appoints Halden as director of new Center for Environmental Security
Sustainability Scientist Rolf Halden says the Center will use a proactive approach to examine chemical and biological threats in the environment locally and globally and develop mitigation strategies.
Valley mayors discuss sustainability in the midst of urban growth
Arizona's desert cities face many unique challenges associated with planning and achieving sustainability, particularly in urban areas. The downturn in the economy coupled with environmental changes and shifts in population