Sustainability Highlights

Bay area board meeting to focus on scaleable solutions

The fall meeting of the Board of Directors for Sustainability at ASU will be held in San Francisco next month. The meeting will begin at 12 p.m. on Monday, October 5, and end by 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 6. The agenda will be distributed to meeting participants later this month. Please contact Vanessa Davis (v.davis@asu.edu) for further details.

M. Sanjayan: Thought Leader Series

In his essay, Seeing the full picture: save nature, live better, M. Sanjayan seals the perceived separation between humans and the natural world, demonstrating how conservation is actually in our own enlightened best-interest. Sanjayan's essay is accompanied by a condensed video of his Earth Month Wrigley Lecture.

Arizona needs sustainability now, writes institute directorate

In a recent opinion piece in the Arizona Republic titled "Our Turn: Hotter Arizona must find sustainability," the directorate of the ASU Wrigley Institute discusses the global rise of sustainability, its significance for our collective future and the need for sustainability solutions.

ASU named nation's most innovative campus in annual rankings

In its newly-released college rankings for 2016, which compare more than 1,500 institutions on a variety of metrics, U.S. News and World Report placed Arizona State University at the top of its “most innovative schools” list before both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ASU Wrigley Institute offers improved experience to web visitors

Through features like streamlined navigation, a mobile-friendly layout and a new expert search function, the latest version of the ASU Wrigley Institute website serves as a portal to all things sustainability at ASU while offering increased visibility to its numerous units and initiatives.

ASU offers dual masters of journalism and sustainability

Students interested in careers that entail communicating sustainability science can now obtain a dual Master of Mass Communications and Master of Sustainable Solutions from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Sustainability.

DCDC to expand scope, impact of water research with NSF award

Thanks to a new $4.5 million National Science Foundation award, Decision Center for a Desert City researchers can expand their studies to other cities in the Colorado River Basin and better explore the transformational changes necessary to sustain Southwest water supplies.

Scientist's algorithm pairs cities with complementary industries

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.

Nature magazine highlights urban ecology at ASU

A Nature article following the latest annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America shares CAP LTER Director Nancy Grimm's sentiment that urban ecology's findings are increasingly important as the world's growing population urbanizes, and as cities seek resilience to the effects of climate change.

Carbon Nation director talks cows, soil and carbon capture

In a recent GreenBiz article titled "The rise of the soil carbon cowboys," sustainability scientist and film director Peter Byck discusses the climate-mitigating benefits of adaptive multi-paddock grazing, as well as an opportunity for collaboration between ranchers and oil companies.

ASU named among Top 20 most sustainable universities

In its 2015 “Coolest Schools” ranking of the nation's greenest colleges and universities, Sierra Magazine named Arizona State number 13 out of 153 for a commitment to high environmental standards reflected by its undergraduate programs, student outreach, building design, sustainable transportation and organic gardens.