Sustainability Digest 062819

The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability provides this list to announce seminars, meetings, colloquiums, lectures, brown bags, announcements of interest, and job opportunities to the Institute community. If you have items you’d like to add please submit them to Cindy.Zisner@asu.edu before 5:00 p.m. Wednesday. This Digest is sent out on Friday morning. You may subscribe, unsubscribe, or change subscriber settings at http://lists.asu.edu/archives/giosasu.html on the menu on the right of the page at Subscribe or Unsubscribe. You can also view archives here.

NEW ITEMS

(Current items remain in the Digest until they happen so don’t forget to peruse the web listing in case you missed something in the previous week.)

Other Events - On Campus

1. 3D Astronomy Show at Marston Exploration Theater

Other Events - Off Campus

2. South Mountain Environmental Education Center: Desert Discoveries

3. South Mountain Environmental Education Center: Nature at Night Walks

4. South Mountain Environmental Education Center: Air-conditioned Van Tours

5. Second Friday LEED Webinar: Getting to Know WELL

6. Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Yard

7. 2019 AAEE Conference: Arizona We are EE!

News and Announcements

8. ASU study finds that new nutrition labels are easier to understand

9. Designing for community and sustainability

10. It's summer, so let's talk water...

11. The environmental impact of the protein we consume

12. Eggshells to pet treats! Meet Eco-Tank winner, George Gebran, and his egg-cellent eco idea

13. The truth is probably not that far out there

14. Desert Botanical Garden Conservation Award Applications Available Now!

15. June Southwest Climate Outlook

Other Jobs

16. Lecturer in Environment & Sustainability, School of Environment & Sustainability, Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO

17. Environmental Analyst V, Wastewater Program, Environmental Conservation Department, State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT

18. Bioinformatics Specialist, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

19. Communications Associate, League of Conservation Voters, Washington, D.C.

20. Operations Manager, McKenzie River Trust, Eugene, OR

21. Program Manager, Jacobs Creek Watershed Association, Scottdale, PA

22. HandsOn AmeriCorps VISTA Food System Coordinator, City of Phoenix, Office of Environmental Programs, Phoenix, AZ

23. Business Analyst, Blue Prosperity Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

24. Development Economist, Institute of Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

25. Analyst, U.S. Climate Policy, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C. or Boulder, CO

26. Assistant Professor, Natural Resources, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

27. Entry Level Water Resources Engineer, Dewberry, Baton Rouge, LA

28. Environmental Project Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton, Chantilly, VA

29. Map Specialist, Michael Baker International, Alexandria, VA

30. Postdoctoral Research Associate, AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

EVENTS

Institute Events

PhD Defense: Nicholas Weller

(Tuesday, July 2, 2019) Nicholas Weller will defend his dissertation Practicing Democracy: Improving Participatory Technology Assessment for Sustainability Challenges. Faculty, students and the general public are invited. At 10:00 a.m. in room 401, Wrigley Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe campus. More information.

Sustainability Series: Free Film Screening: SKYGLOW

(Wednesday, July 31, 2019) SKYGLOW is an ongoing crowdfunded project spanning 150,000 miles and 3,000,000 pictures taken, which explores North America’s remaining magnificent night skies and the grave threat of light pollution to our fragile environment. Doors open 6:30 p.m.; showtime 7:00 p.m. at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 1140 E Baseline Rd, Tempe. More information and registration.

Other Events

On Campus

NEW!

3D Astronomy Show at Marston Exploration Theater

(Saturday, June 29, 2019) The Marston Exploration Theater is located on the Arizona State University Tempe campus in the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV. The theater employs Definiti SkySkan Planetarium technology utilizing 4K projection systems that render Earth and space science themes in 3D stereographic vision. The Marston Exploration Theater features five different 3D astronomy shows of topical interest. All presentations are produced live and run approximately 60 minutes. From 2:30-3:30 p.m. in Marston Theater, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV, Arizona State University, Tempe campus. More information and tickets.

Off Campus

NEW!

South Mountain Environmental Education Center: Desert Discoveries

(Saturday, June 29, 2019) Explore the Sonoran Desert through crafts, stories, and hands-on activities. Fun for children and the child in us all! This one will feature “Puzzling Petroglyphs.” From 9:00-10:00 a.m. More information and tickets.

NEW!

South Mountain Environmental Education Center: Nature at Night Walks

(Saturday, June 29, 2019) Experience and explore the desert at night, guided by your senses and a Park Ranger! Come over starting at 6:00 p.m. for chats with our Park Rangers before the walk begins. From 6:45-7:45 p.m. Registration recommended to ensure space. More information and tickets.

NEW!

South Mountain Environmental Education Center: Air-conditioned Van Tours

(Saturday, July 6, 2019) Explore the natural beauty and human history of South Mountain from the comfort of an air-conditioned vehicle, with experienced Park Rangers and educators as your guide. Learn more about the fascinating history of Civilian Conservation Corps workers as they shaped the South Mountain we know today. From 8:00-9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. More information and tickets.

NEW!

Second Friday LEED Webinar: Getting to Know WELL

(Friday, July 12, 2019) Join us for our monthly Second Friday LEED Webinar education series! We will be focusing on mostly LEED v4 content throughout the year - typically with LEED specific CEU credits, and often AIA LU credits as well. The WELL Building Standard (a new rating system from IWBI) provides a structure for evaluating wellness strategies for building design and operational elements, built from a collection of research findings that support the benefits to health and well-being. From 12:15-1:30 p.m. EDT (9:15-10:30 a.m. AZ). More information and registration.

ICED 2019: Strengthening Social Development to Achieve The Sustainable Development Goals

(Tuesday-Friday, July 16-19, 2019) The International Consortium for Social Development’s 21st Biennial International Conference, which first began in 1980, will be held at Universities Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The International Conference will be themed Strengthening Social Development to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This conference is open to various disciplines, practitioners, academics and students to accelerate the impact of the 17 SDGs and 169 targets at the national and global level. Inherent in the ICED’s spirit, the SDGs aspire to end poverty and create economic, social and environmental sustainability. More information and registration.

SISE 2019: Implementation

(Thursday, July 18-Tuesday, July 30, 2019) The Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (SISE) is a two-week "boot camp" for future decision makers eager to join the sustainability and energy revolution happening around the globe. Held annually since 2011, the program boasts over 400 alumni. During weekdays, SISE'ers participate in high-level talks, visit energy and sustainability sites, and network. During evenings and weekends, they work collaboratively on a research project and enjoy exploring Chicago. This year’s theme, Implementation, moves beyond the “what” to the “how.” Building on the research of previous years, 2019 SISE Fellows will engage with Chicago communities and collaborators to develop critical strategies to help local neighborhoods realize their vision for their future. They will engage with theory and case studies, and then move to the streets and homes of our Chicago neighbors and communities where real change is made at the ground level. Senior-level undergraduates (as of the fall of 2018), graduate students, recent graduates, and professionals working in the fields of sustainability and energy are eligible to apply. Applications due May 30, 2019. For more information.

NEW!

Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Yard

(Thursday, August 1, 2019) This session is all about Watershed Management Group's 3 "S"s: slow, spread, and sink. Learn how to use passive rainwater harvesting to create a series of berms, basins, and swales that will direct rainwater to beneficial use for plants while reducing flooding and erosion in your yard. These practices will slow the flow of the water, spread it across the areas where it's needed, and sink it into the ground. You'll leave this session with: Rain garden sizing and placement. From 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Mesa Main Library, 64 E. 1^st St, Mesa. More information and registration.

United Nations Civil Society Conference: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Communities

(Monday-Wednesday, August 26-28, 2019) Holding this worldwide conference in Salt Lake City will be historic, as it will be the first time this conference will be held outside of UN Headquarters in the United States. With talks of taking this conference abroad again in 2020, the success of this event is imperative for the future of the conference and America’s United Nations legacy. The UN’s mission is world peace. To this end, they are focused on empowering sustainable cities and communities. More information and registration.

SHADE 2019 Southwest Horticulture Annual Day of Education

(Friday, August 30, 2019) This year’s SHADE education conference will be held at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort, Phoenix. If you have any questions, please contact Shayla at shyde@azna.org or 480-966-1610. We have some new and exciting things planned for the conference. See you all in August! The conference is sponsored by the Arizona Nursery Association. More information.

Forming the Future: An Interdisciplinary Conference

(Monday-Tuesday, September 2-3, 2019) Thinking about the future often focuses on its ‘content’: what might happen. Similarly, thinking about ‘future studies’ often concentrates on its goals, concepts and methods. But what about the forms in which the future comes couched? How does the medium in which the future is presented – its genres, structures, conventions – shape or influence what the future might include? What forms do representations of the future currently take in different disciplines and fields of practice – from fiction to non-fiction, the visual to the textual, science to politics – and to what effect? Can we make our representations of the future more efficacious, with a view to the current world situation? And what might different fields learn from each other, or how might they combine, in order to do this? The conference will be held at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. More information.

NEW!

2019 AAEE Conference: Arizona We are EE!

(Thursday-Saturday, September 12-14, 2019) Join the Arizona Association for Environmental Education this fall for the largest event in Arizona that convenes educators, learners, leaders, and decision-makers to leverage the power of environmental education (EE). To be held at Prescott College, Prescott, AZ. More information and registration.

SER Southwest Annual Conference

(Friday-Sunday, November 8-10, 2019) The 2019 Annual Conference of the SER - Southwest Chapter will be held in Tucson, Arizona at the University of Arizona! We invite submissions of presentations and posters, as well as symposia, panels, and workshops on any topic related to restoration, management, or conservation of natural areas in the Southwest Chapter Ecoregions. Abstracts due by August 30, 2019. More information and registration.

U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Poster Competition

(Wednesday-Thursday, November 13-14, 2019) The U.S. C3E Poster Competition is an opportunity for students and early-career researchers to participate in a poster competition at the 8th Annual U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium at Texas A&M University. The poster competition exposes symposium attendees to cutting-edge research in a variety of clean energy fields. A poster committee with wide-ranging expertise will select the most compelling poster submissions for presentation at the Symposium with an eye toward diversity of institution, topic, and discipline. More information.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW!

ASU study finds that new nutrition labels are easier to understand

Starting next year, most nutrition labels on food packaging will be updated to be more clear about calories, portion sizes and added sugar. The move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was in response to research that people weren’t paying attention to the labels because they had to use too much math to make sense of them. A new research paper by an Arizona State University professor who used eye-tracking software in a study found that consumers spent less time looking at the new labels compared with the old. Read more.

NEW!

Designing for community and sustainability

It’s a common story: Developers start transforming public spaces with little to no input from the community — and it doesn’t end happily. But, as Arizona State University Assistant Professors Paul Coseo and Chingwen Cheng (both in The Design School, part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) have demonstrated, there are inclusive approaches to community design. For the 2018–2019 academic year, they led a group of four landscape architecture students and one design student in a project to collaboratively redesign Old Stadium Park in Hawaii. Read more.

NEW!

It’s summer, so let’s talk water...

Summer is at hand and water is a key element in beating the heat. For Phoenix-area residents, that means cold showers, dips in the pool, visits to water parks and lakes and lots of beverage consumption. ASU Now recently spoke to College of Integrative Sciences and Arts Associate Professor Claire Lauer about Arizona's water system, how residents view our most precious commodity and what can be done to cut down on consumption and waste. Read more.

NEW!

The environmental impact of the protein we consume

Whether you’re a bacon fanatic, a vegan or somewhere in between, the choices you make about the foods you consume reverberate much further than your own body. As more consumers become aware of this, demand for sustainably sourced foods is on the rise. Yet personal health remains an important consideration. Read more.

NEW!

Eggshells to pet treats! Meet Eco-Tank winner, George Gebran, and his egg-cellent eco idea (from Green Living Magazine)

On April 22, as part of Green Living Magazine’s Earth Day Simple Solutions Summit 2019, eco-conscious start-ups had the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges during the Eco-tank event. Read more about the winner.

NEW!

The truth is probably not that far out there

A group of Navy pilots recently shared their experiences regarding unidentified flying objects they witnessed while conducting training maneuvers in a New York Times report. In search of whatever truths may be out there, ASU Now talked to a few experts to get their take on the so-called inexplicable incidents described and why the subject is so fascinating to us Earthlings. Read more.

NEW!

Desert Botanical Garden Conservation Award Applications Available Now!

Each year, the Desert Botanical Garden celebrates achievement and innovation in biodiversity conservation by recognizing an individual, organization or corporation with our Award for Excellence in Conservation. We are now seeking nominations for the 2019 Conservation Award and would love to hear who you think should receive this honor. If you would like to nominate someone, please review and complete the nomination form. Completed forms and letters of support can be sent to Award@dbg.org, as well as any questions that you may have. Please submit any applications by July 12, 2019. The award will be presented to the winner at Desert Botanical Garden's 3rd Annual Conservation Celebration luncheon (November 21, 2019) to benefit the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance. If you would like to attend, event tickets are available now.

Young SDG Innovators Programme

The Young SDG Innovators Programme is an opportunity for participating companies of the UN Global Compact to identify young talent within their organizations to collaborate and accelerate business innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This ten-month accelerator programme activates future business leaders and changemakers to develop and drive innovative solutions through new technologies, initiatives, and business models and deliver on their company’s sustainability objectives. The Programme is designed to engage your company’s brightest and best talent in not only advancing your sustainability efforts but driving innovation and delivering tangible solutions with potential market value for your company. Nominations from May 13-August 31, 2019. Program runs from September 2019 to June 2020. More information.

Special Issue of Sustainability “Collaboration for Sustainability”

Guest Editor Edward Hackett is seeking submissions for this special issue that analyze the organization and dynamics of sustainability collaborations and that propose new patterns of collaboration to achieve sustainability goals. For more information of types of papers and submission. Deadline for submission is October 31, 2019.

Arizona Department of Water Resource Drought Program

May 2019 drought summary is online.

NEW!

June Southwest Climate Outlook

The June 2019 Southwest Climate Outlook is online.

CLIMAS Podcast: June 2019: May Astonishment & Monsoon Preseason

Tune into the Southwest Climate podcasts on Apple Podcasts or Southwest Climate Change Network.

OPPORTUNITIES

Institute Job Openings

Faculty Associate Pool, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Application deadline May – open until filled. More information.

Oceans Futures Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes