Doctoral graduate Rajesh Buch is a practice lead with the Sustainability Solutions Extension Service, organizing students and faculty members into consulting groups for private and public sustainability projects.

Bruno Sarda, consultant for the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, writes that climate change alleviation can come from leaders who inspire, set concrete goals, and instill a sustainability strategy.

Mike Pasqualetti writes in an opinion piece that coal is losing its fight nationally and Arizona has a chance to lead the change towards clean energy with more solar projects.

Research and development of cleaner sources of energy is becoming increasingly more important in our society. Last week, President Barack Obama announced new measures to tackle climate change which included

School of Life Sciences professor Ferran Garcia-Pichel's international team of scientists found that higher temperatures can alter the abundance of microbial species with unknown consequences to erosion protection and soil fertility.

Oceanographer and Sustainability Scientist Susanne Neuer leads National Science Foundation research on phytoplankton's role in climate change mitigation and how the algae can permanently bury organic carbon.

Sustainability Scientist Quentin Wheeler's new book hopes to show that sustaining Earth's biodiversity can ensure our survival and the resiliency of ecosystems to future stressors.

Senior Sustainability Scientist Emily Talen edited "Charter of the New Urbanism," a book for design professionals and citizen activists that advises on urban sprawl mitigation and built sustainable communities.

A Thought Leader Series Piece By Patricia Reiter Note: As the Director of the newly established Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, Patricia Reiter is responsible for overseeing the

School of Sustainability community-university liaison Katja Brundiers uses Living Learning Labs to turn research into campus and community projects that apply and teach sustainability.

China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.

Citizen science volunteers expanded on past Wrigley Lecture Series lecturer and climate scientist Naomi Oreskes' survey of climate journal articles in hopes of lessening the misconceptions behind climate change.