New online magazine ‘Transformations’ explores role of change

ASU’s Narrative Storytelling Initiative launched its latest venture to explore the power of transformative experiences in an online magazine called Transformations, which features powerful, personal essays.

ASU reached its carbon neutrality goal six years early — on June 30, 2019. Increased energy efficiency in both new buildings and campus retrofits; on-site solar generation; renewable energy purchases from large-scale, off-site generation facilities; and purchase of carbon offsets and renewable energy were all deployed while growing the student population and undertaking a physical expansion of all ASU’s campuses.

Thirteen years ago, Arizona State University made the pioneering promise to completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from its campus operations by the year 2025. But on June 30, 2019, the

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, attitudes in the United States concerning environmentalism have gradually evolved from a focus on addressing pollution to a focus on protecting and nurturing

ASU’s Narrative Storytelling Initiative, in collaboration with the Global Futures Laboratory, has extended the deadline to May 19 for the “Envisioning the Future” story contest. Winning entries earn cash prizes.

The project, Apocalyptic Narratives and Climate Change: Religion, Journalism, and the Challenge of Public Engagement, combines research on the apocalyptic religious thinking with training in the literature of social change.

On Tuesday, April 7, sustainability scientist Jennifer Richter will host one of 52 simultaneous state-by-state webinars as part of a virtual teach-in on climate solutions and justice.

Applications are open through April 15, 2020, for the third annual Everything Change global climate fiction contest. All genres of short fiction are welcome, and there is no entry fee to submit your story. The first place winner will be awarded $1,000.

At the Wrigley Lecture Jan. 30 at ASU, climate leader Christiana Figueres said extreme events like the Australian wildfires are foretelling of things to come if we continue to sleepwalk into the future. “That world is possible, but it is not inevitable,” she said.

“Sunny Day Flooding,” a 9-minute documentary produced by Stephen Beschloss for the Global Futures Laboratory, investigates the climate crisis in Norfolk, Virginia — site of the world’s largest Naval base. Norfolk is the first U.S. location where complications from sea level rise began in earnest.