ASU Sustainability and Innovation News
Event: The overlooked role of tech in the sustainability movement
Join by Zoom August 11. Engineers today are increasingly asked to produce sustainable designs, products, and infrastructure. But what is meant by sustainability, and what is the role of the engineer in this domain?
Mapping the nexus of economic growth, inequality and environment
There is a clear pattern on the role of reduced inequality in positively affecting environmental and economic trajectories, according to a new paper by sustainability scientists Datu Buyung Agusdinata and Rimjhim Aggarwal.
Hsueh awarded AAUW American Fellowship
The fellowship supports sustainability scientist Lily Hsueh’s work on her book-in-progress, which examines the demand for, and supply of, global businesses’ climate action, across levels of governance, sectors, and in developed and developing countries.
Call for projects: Project Cities seeks solutions-focused class projects
Bring project-based learning into your classroom with support from ASU Project Cities. This university-community partnership model offers ample opportunities for meaningful, applied research. This year’s city partners are Peoria and Clarkdale.
Klinsky edits special issue integrating climate justice, built environment
Together with a UK architect, sustainability scientist Sonja Klinsky has edited a special issue of Buildings & Cities that explores the concept and relevance of climate justice in relation to the built environment.
Strengthening supply chain in Africa
In many places around the world supply chain gaps prevent goods from reaching their intended market and the people who need and rely on them. Supply chains include the system
New paper: Modest water policy implementation could offset 30 percent of outdoor demand
A new paper in Sustainability Science finds that the use of alternative water supplies, such as rainwater harvesting and greywater use, could offset up to 30 percent of total outdoor water demand for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area under modest implantation of these policies.
Peace Corps, ASU partner to provide digital libraries across the globe
Through this new agreement, Peace Corps Volunteers, including many recalled due to COVID-19, will curate hyper-local library content specific to the locations of their postings, to be disseminated via the SolarSPELL technology.
Researchers pinpoint how sorbent materials catch and release carbon
New research by sustainability scientist Klaus Lackner and his colleagues explains how sorbent materials catch and release carbon, a key component to direct air capture systems that remove carbon from the atmosphere.
With the help of ASU, city of Phoenix developing solutions to cool down
Sustainability scientist David Hondula was interviewed by the Washington Post. The article details the intersection between heat and health, and explains why low-income communities are hit particularly hard by extreme heat.
More than words: Acknowledging Indigenous land
ASU Library has released a five-sentence acknowledgement about the Indigenous land that the library and university have inhabited for more than a century.
Li, Salon, Kedron investigate COVID-19 societal impacts
From racial discrimination, to digital privacy, to the future of transport, three SGSUP researchers – including two sustainability scientists – have been awarded COVID-19-related research grants.