ASU School of Sustainability

Thank you to all our donors and supporters who made Day a huge success! Together, our community of giving raised over $30,000 to ensure academic success for our students. We appreciate your support.

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College of Global Futures Dean Your support gives the College of Global Futures Dean the flexibility and agility to seize opportunities for the school as they first appear, attend to urgent needs within the school, including undergraduate research programs, student support, and expand research endeavors.

More incredible and innovative work from our students. graduate students Lukas Gutierrez and Rebeca Rodriguez were part of a team that took first place in a statewide contest to instill confidence and increase ridership within Valley Metro.
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ASU planning and sustainability students receive top awards for transportation innovations ASU graduate students received first and second place in a statewide contest for their innovative ideas to instill confidence and increase...

Save the date! The School of Sustainability and College of Global Futures invites you to consider the student causes you care about and support them with a gift in honor of on March 17. When you join our community of giving, you’re doing more than impacting student experiences. You’re propelling the next generation of future leaders who will shape a healthy, thriving planet for our local and global communities.
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Congratulations to Director Diane Pataki! She has been selected to the newest class of AAAS Fellows along with seven other ASU faculty.
Read more: http://ow.ly/qqXv50HGYy8

AAAS honors 7 ASU faculty as lifetime fellows The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of...

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With more electric vehicles on the roads, the need for lithium batteries is on the rise. Wenjuan Liu is researching the impacts of lithium mining and working to educate consumers about potential consequences.
http://ow.ly/2HWZ50H7m8J

Researching and educating consumers about the impacts of lithium mining Electric vehicles are marketed as better for the environment and a good way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But the push to go electric may come...

Congratulations to SOS Director Diane Pataki. She was elected vice president for science of the Ecological Society of America governing board. Learn more ➡️ http://ow.ly/Vwgm50H6FyK

"It's important to preserve the world we're living in."

Caitlyn Finnegan is working to address challenges. Learn how this is making an impact.
➡️ http://ow.ly/STuN50H6oHW

Only one more week until our College of Global Futures Convocation! We can't wait to celebrate with our School of Sustainability grads. 🎓

College of Global Futures Convocation:
Wednesday, December 15
2 p.m. MST
Gammage (*Masks required)
http://ow.ly/ZoZJ50H4F3h

Great work from sustainability student Ziggy Bowker! They created a free market in Tempe where people can take home donated items at no cost. Learn more about the Tempe Really Really Free Market. ⬇️
http://ow.ly/Jxih50GQ2Gk

Everything at the Tempe Really Really Free Market is free. Really The independently-operated Tempe Really Really Free Market is just that: a place for metro Phoenix residents to give away and take home free items, like secondhand clothing, home goods and nonperishable food items.When you enter Clark Park in Tempe bright and early at 7 a.m., you’re cheerily greet...

Welcome Diane Pataki to the College of Global Futures as director of the School of Sustainability. Learn more about her research and her goals for the school.
http://ow.ly/oMPL50GmorH

College of Global Futures welcomes urban ecologist, sustainability scholar as director of School of Sustainability The role plants and vegetation can play in making cities more livable is the subject of Diane Pataki's research, which she is now bringing to ASU...

'Careers Going Forward Information Session: Get your LEED Credentials at ASU'. Register here: https://t.co/oZinM172V2?amp=1

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How "cool" is this? ASU was ranked the top coolest school by Sierra Magazine for its efforts. and the School of Sustainability played a big role in helping ASU earn the top spot. ⬇️
http://ow.ly/bOF450G7fTZ

The Top 20 Coolest Schools 2021 Get to know today's most sustainable colleges and universities

The U.S. federal government declared "code red" on the Colorado River water shortage this week. Dave White, Deputy Director of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation (GIOSI) and water systems sustainability expert, weighed in on what this means for our .

Read his article in the Washington Post here: https://wapo.st/3meAHMz

Opinion | What to do about the Colorado River’s megadrought ‘code red’ Addressing the water shortage requires and "all of the above" approach to the technological and conservation measures needed.

Welcome urban ecologist Diane Pataki to as the new director of the School of Sustainability.

"The School of Sustainability is unique. Students, faculty and staff have built an academic unit that brings together such a wide range of disciplines to study and test and implement sustainable solutions. There's really no other place like it." -Pataki

We look forward to working with Pataki to create and build a more sustainable future.

The start of fall semester is just one week away! There are lots of fall welcome events planned for new and returning students. For a complete schedule of events, visit eoss.asu.edu/welcome/events.

How can we better address issues related to ? The IPCC just released its next , featuring a clearer picture of rising temperatures and what needs to be done to mitigate the risks and impact.

Read the full report ➡️ ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/

Congrats to Cate Hudson, Magdalena Schwenck, Olivia Nienaber (College of Global Futures) and Sinead Hickey (Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication)! Their short documentary, “Cruzando la Frontera/Border Crossing,” has been selected for the 2021 El Paso Film Festival.
Watch it here ➡️ http://ow.ly/NcjY50FM9Ay

Cruzando la Frontera/Border Crossing Young women from Juarez, Mexico aspire to attend schools in the U.S., and face daily struggles and experiences while crossing the border to El Paso, TX. A fi...

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ASU's Sustainability Opportunity program is now accepting registrations. Our best price ($1,995) expires on Wednesday, July 14th when prices will go up. Register today to save!

This 6-week, intensive online certificate course combines the power of the consistently top ranked W. P. Carey School of Business with the pioneering first-in-the-nation School of Sustainability, part of ASU College of Global Futures.

Program begins Monday, August 30.

The program is capped at 24 participants, and the last program completely sold out, so register soon if you're interested!

Learn more: https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/opportunity/

Our students are doing amazing things. Congrats to the winning team!

Students win national sustainable investing competition Arizona State University students are harnessing the power of large-scale investing to motivate big corporations to adopt sustainable business practices.

How can we better promote consumption? New research finds four types of sustainable consumption communications (SCC) and the need to expand the use of communication to contribute to more effective change.
http://ow.ly/SW7r50EN4u7

The ASU Kyl Center for Water Policy presents 'Ten Tenets of Water Equity: Considerations for Community Water Systems'. Join us on May 10 at noon for this webinar exploring the tensions between a reliable water supply and financing a community water system. Register here: https://bit.ly/3xLZ8nC

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ten Tenets of Water Equity: Considerations for Community Water Systems. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This event will discuss the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Morrison Institute's new report, "Ten Tenets of Water Equity: Considerations for Community Water Systems." This report explores the tensions between the aspiration of ensuring that all members of a community have access to reliable, safe wat...