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How will we protect American infrastructure from cyberattacks?

Infrastructure — it’s one of those words we think we understand, but it can be a hard concept to wrap our brains around. We may vaguely imagine electrical grids or

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Postdoctoral associate openings at MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Please forward as appropriate two postdoc openings, one in Natural Climate Solutions, and the other in Environment and Sustainability Education. Review of applications will begin immediately, and continue until filled.

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New report: The Critical To-Do List for Organic Agriculture

The Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems is pleased to announce the release of our report: The Critical To-Do List of Organic Agriculture: 46 Recommendations for the President.   Thirty years

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Do trees provide the best shade for urban environments?

Shade is a term that residents of arid, hot environments learn to appreciate, especially during scalding summer months. But what makes for the best shade? “Cities have started to plant

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ASU engineering experts reframe infrastructure security

Sustainability scientists Mikhail Chester and Brad Allenby and their faculty peers in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering believe broader perspectives need to be part of the current debate

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Ariaratnam receives Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award

Sustainability scientist Samuel Ariaratnam was recently named this year’s winner of the American Society of Civil Engineers, or ASCE, Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award. Ariaratnam will deliver the Bechtel

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June 15-16: Earth Archive LIDAR Conference

The Earth Archive is an international, interdisciplinary initiative to create an open-access, high-resolution, digital archive of the earth’s surface compiled from LiDAR scans. This can be used for a wide

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Donkeys dig deep in the desert, benefiting overall ecosystem

An Arizona State University doctoral candidate has discovered that horses, donkeys and other equine species, which are seen as “invasive,” actually help shape desert ecosystems, fulfilling the same function long-extinct

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ASU project receives first place in 2021 Microgrid Greater Good Awards

Led by sustainability scientist Nathan Johnson and the Laboratory for Energy and Power Solutions, ASU’s ATLAS Containerized Microgrid has won first place in the 2021 Microgrid Greater Good Awards. The

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June 12-15: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021

Sustainability scientist Julianna Gwiszcz is co-facilitating two sessions at this year’s SRI Congress, hosted June 12-15, 2021, online and in Brisbane, Australia. The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021)

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New paper: Collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus

Sustainability scientist and GIOSI deputy director Dave White and recent School of Sustainability PhD graduate J. Leah Jones published a paper, A social network analysis of collaborative governance for the

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Registration now open: Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Ed 2021

Registration for this year’s virtual Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE) has officially opened. Attendees can register today to reserve their spot for a virtual event that saw