Sustainability Digest 071919

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. Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Food

News and Announcements

3. Amazon Prime Day: ASU professor says online shoppers value convenience over environment

4. 16 companies rethinking packaging

Institute Jobs

5. Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Postdoctoral Fellow

Other Jobs

6. Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, U.S. Military Academy, Office of the Dean, Academic Research Division, West Point, NY

7. Student, Food Service Worker, Engrained, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

8. Assistant Professor, Societal Challenges of Climate Change Impacts, Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

9. Visiting Assistant Lecturer, Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddleford, ME

EVENTS

Institute Events

Sustainability Series: Free Film Screening: Into the Canyon

(Wednesday, July 31, 2019) Into the Canyon documents the 750-mile journey on foot through the entire length of the Grand Canyon. This film is a story of extreme physical hardship that stretches the bonds of friendship through the timeless beauty of this sacred place. It is an urgent warning about the environmental dangers that are placing one of America’s greatest monuments in peril and a cautionary tale for our complex relationship with the natural world. 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, July 20, 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

Mesa Public Library Event: Urban Hummingbirds

(Saturday, July 27, 2019) Emily Macklin of Audubon Arizona will present an entertaining and informative program on hummingbirds. These colorful creatures possess a personality greater than their size and amazing physical capabilities! From 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Program Room at Red Mountain Branch, Mesa Public Library, 635 N. Power Road, Mesa, AZ 85205. More information.

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.

Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Plants

(Thursday, August 8, 2019) How can you create a beautiful, lush landscape while conserving water? We'll show you how to select native plants to build wildlife habitat, shade your home, and create an appealing landscape for your yard. If you're looking for the best trees and plants to attract hummingbirds and butterflies, bloom bright with color, or cool off your home with shade, we've got you covered. You'll leave this session with: Plant plan for your home – type, location, and benefits of native plants you will use. From 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Mesa Main Library, 64 E. 1^st St, Mesa. More information and registration.

NEW!

Hydrate Mesa: Hydrate Your Food

(Thursday, August 15, 2019) Rain tanks are like rain barrels, only upgraded: bigger, better, and your harvested rainwater lasts longer. While most rain barrels hold about 50 gallons of water, rain tanks can hold 1,000 gallons or more, capturing water from several storms and storing it for use over the course of many drier months. WMG will show you how to use rain tanks as an active form of rainwater harvesting to nourish your vegetable and herb gardens throughout the year. You will leave this session with: An action plan for size and type of tank needed to support your garden. 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.

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!

Amazon Prime Day: ASU professor says online shoppers value convenience over environment

Amazon Prime Day, took place on July 15 and 16, and offered shoppers the chance to buy items online at discounted prices, for 36 hours only. Launched by Amazon in 2015, Prime Day has grown into a worldwide event that in 2017 generated over $1 billion in sales for businesses on Amazon. Read more.

NEW!

16 companies rethinking packaging (from GreenBiz.com)

The United States generates almost 80 million tons of packaging waste each year, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. When landfilled or incinerated, this waste pollutes the environment and poses health risks (PDF) to humans and wildlife. Packaging is also the main source of the plastic pollution that is clogging the ocean and expected to exceed the weight of all fish by 2050 at current rates. The food industry is largely responsible for this growing packaging problem. Read more.

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.

Arizona Water Protection Fund Grants Available

The Arizona Water Protection Fund Commission (Commission) is pleased to announce that it will be offering a fiscal year 2020 grant cycle. The Commission provides funding for projects that directly maintain, enhance and restore river and riparian resources; implement innovative river and riparian research; and implement water conservation measures or programs outside of the 5 Active Management Areas. The Commission will be accepting applications under all funding categories (capital, research and water conservation). A grant application workshop with a live webinar option will be held July 24, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. at the Arizona Department of Water Resources office located at 1110 W. Washington St., Suite 310, Phoenix, AZ 85007. The fiscal year 2020 Grant Application Manual is available on the Arizona Water Protection Fund web site www.azwpf.gov and will be available at the workshop. To have a copy mailed to you, please contact Reuben Teran at 602-771-8525, or via e-mail at rteran@azwater.gov. Pre-application consultations may be scheduled with AWPF staff from July - August 2019 as time permits. Please contact Reuben Teran at 602-771-8525, or via e-mail rteran@azwater.gov to schedule a consultation. Grant applications are due September 6, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. Applicant presentations and Commission grant award selections will take place November 19-20, 2019. The complete grant application process schedule can be viewed at www.azwpf.gov.

The Roy Award for Environmental Partnership

The Belfar Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership. The Roy Award is presented every two years to an outstanding cross-sector partnership that enhances environmental quality through novel and creative approaches. We are looking for partnerships that: (1) have advanced a new idea, model, or paradigm that could be transferable to other issues or geographic regions to improve the quality of the environment; and (2) have taken risks that result in significant actions that contribute to solutions and create leverage for greater action; Self-nomination is permissible and encouraged. The deadline to submit a nomination is October 15, 2019. More information and nomination submittal.

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

June 2019 drought summary is online.

June Southwest Climate Outlook

The June 2019 Southwest Climate Outlook is online.

CLIMAS Podcast: July 2019: Monsoon MiniPod - Pesky Trough Edition

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

OPPORTUNITIES

Institute Job Openings

NEW!

Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Postdoctoral Fellow

Application deadline extended to August 2, 2019. More information.

Faculty Associate Pool, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Application deadline May – open until filled. More information.

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes