Through a new interface, visitors to the ASU Wrigley Institute website can see how sustainability scientists and scholars are actively contributing to all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Click below to browse the goals and meet our sustainability experts.
Slated for release in May 2017, the 2016 edition of the ASU Wrigley Institute's annual magazine showcases a host of accomplishments, including the School of Sustainability's 10th Anniversary celebration. Browse the 2016 edition, as well as previous editions, by clicking below.
Drawing parallels to the lessons he learned while rafting the Colorado River in 1998, Senior Sustainability Scientist Dave White – director of ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City – delivered his ideas for staying afloat in times of increasing water scarcity in a March 2017 KED Talk.
Leah Gerber & Penny Langhammer: Thought Leader Series
In an essay titled "Myanmar at a turning point for natural capital and human wellbeing," two ASU biodiversity experts explore the tremendous promise for sustainable development in that Southeast Asian country and how they're working to enhance it.
Spotlighting the Sustainability Teachers' Academy – a program of the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives – ASU was recognized with a 2017 Best of Green Schools award from the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council.
Innovative consortium announces first global collaborations
The Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes awarded three interdisciplinary teams $125,000 each to deliver research-backed solutions that address challenges related to the capacity of cities to solve problems, education and reducing carbon emissions from the built environment.
Acting as an official measurement partner, The Sustainability Consortium aims to help Walmart in reducing one billion tons of emissions by collecting relevant data from participating suppliers throughout the company's value chain of products.
Sustainability professor gives GreenBiz the inside view
Saying that sustainability is a field written in pencil – at best, School of Sustainability Professor of Practice George Basile spends 10 minutes with GreenBiz and explains why practitioners in this pioneering field need to be keen learners.
Joining forces with private sector for sustainability outcomes
Two representatives from ASU joined nearly 400 sustainability professionals from the world’s leading companies at a 2017 World Business Council for Sustainable Development meeting that focused on critical opportunities to advance sustainable development.
Arizona's agricultural production is headed for a decline, say two ASU sustainability scientists who found – after studying the food-energy-water nexus that governs agriculture in the state – that its yields could drop more than 12 percent per 1 degree Celsius.
