Sustainability scientists participate in NASEM events

Nancy Grimm presented on urban sustainability. Marty Anderies presented on adapting to shocks and surprise. Billie Lee Turner presented on sustainability science as a growing field of scholarship.

Eight actions to advance green purchasing in Japanese municipalities

By: Elizabeth Bruns, Nicole Darnall, Kylie Flynn, Angela Fox In 2001, Japan’s Ministry of Environment partnered with the Japanese Green Purchasing Network to create a “green product database” to help

Why Japanese municipal governments buy green products

By:Elizabeth Bruns, Nicole Darnall, Kylie Flynn, Angela Fox Japanese governmental purchases account for 19.8% of its gross domestic product. These purchases include vehicle fleets, construction materials, chemicals, electronics, and office

Japanese green purchasing implementation success

By: Elizabeth Bruns, Nicole Darnall, Kylie Flynn, Angela Fox In Japan, sustainable purchasing policies are required at the national and federal level. To assist, Japan’s Ministry of Environment has developed

Pizza

Pandemic hasn’t stopped restaurant openings

From chic, intimate spaces for a candlelit dinner to casual, relaxed eateries slinging cold beers and fresh-out-of-the-oven pizza pies, Scottsdale’s new restaurants run the gamut, including Broth & Bao at

Applications open: NASEM early-career research fellowship

The NASEM Gulf Research Program is accepting applications for the 2021 GRP Early-Career Research Fellowship Track 1: Human Health and Community Resilience. Applications are due January 13.

Decision support tools and research workshop

Read the event recap, check out the action items, and affiliate your new or existing ORCID with ASU. Take 20 minutes to watch Phil Tarrant’s presentation on ASU’s research data support services.

Radhika Chaudhary

Deeya Panel Products Private Limited: Innovative Solutions to Plastic Waste

“It is important to allow yourself to make mistakes because it is most often that you learn faster and quicker through making mistakes than to try very hard to avoid

New book: Urban infrastructure for 2100

Sustainability scientist Mikhail Chester has published a new book, Urban Infrastructure: Reflections for 2100, an edited volume imagining infrastructure transitions and goals at end-of-century.

UREx NYU lead to present at UNESCO event

Dec. 9: Rae Zimmerman, the NYU lead for UREx, will present a new UREx researcher-practitioner paper on GI and stormwater management as part of the “Innovative Initiatives 2” session.

John E. Morton

Climate policy and action: The next four years

Dec. 18: Join us for a special interview by journalist and Global Futures Fellow Frank Sesno with former White House Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change John E. Morton.

ASU launches Sustainable Maryvale StoryMap

The tool demonstrates how we can localize the Sustainable Development Goals using six forms of Community Capital to redirect local systems toward community sustainability, and how this approach can be replicated in neighborhoods across the US and beyond.