Sustainability Matters

Michael Crow and William McDonough named to Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders List

ASU President Michael M. Crow and ASU Wrigley Institute Board Member William McDonough have been named to Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders list, which honors leaders in business, government, philanthropy and the arts who are transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same.

Sustainability grad brings international perspective

Maryam Abdul Rashid took a risk enrolling in the School of Sustainability. Coming from Malaysia, she said sustainability was a foreign concept and people back home questioned what her future might be. But she took the leap anyway — with a big payoff.

Hot off the press: 2018 accomplishments magazine

This 2018 edition gives an update on the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability’s impact and progress — from building international connections to continuing the upward sustainability student enrollment trend and conducting solutions-focused research.

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Watch the spring 2019 School of Sustainability convocation livestream

Want to watch the Arizona State University School of Sustainability convocation from afar? It will be livestreamed on ASU Live 2. Tune in Thursday, May 9 2019 at 4:30 p.m. MST.

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Watch Alice Waters's Wrigley Lecture about slow food culture

Alice Waters — famed chef, author and founder/owner of Chez Panisse restaurant — visited ASU to deliver the year's first Wrigley Lecture, "We Are What We Eat: Teaching Slow Food Values in a Fast Food Culture." This lecture was co-sponsored by the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems.

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ASU–Wells Fargo Earth Day broadcast reaches more than 1.7 million people

The ASU Wrigley Institute celebrated Earth Day with an around-the-clock documentary broadcast highlighting projects and people making an impact for a sustainable tomorrow. The successful “24 Hours of Sustainability” broadcast reached 1.7 million Facebook users in 45 countries.

ASU students gamify sustainability education with Kahoot! quizzes

As part of ASU’s efforts to advance K–12 sustainability education, a student group led by School of Sustainability professor Stephanie Pfirman created a suite of Kahoot! quizzes to teach sustainability concepts including environment, food, social justice and energy.

All hands on deck to protect Island Earth

Read the latest Thought Leader Series essay by Hawaiian master navigator Nainoa Thompson, president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Thompson encourages all people to come together and act for a better future for the world's children — "but we have to move quickly."

ASU students developing off-grid tech to help small farms build resilience to climate change

With a growing global population coupled with climate change challenges, farmers are working hard to feed the world. SolarSENSE, an ASU student capstone project using solar-powered technology, is working on a solution to help small, rural farms thrive.

ASU partners with Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings to initiate Global KAITEKI Center

A unique center officially opened on April 3 at ASU, housed within the ASU Wrigley Institute. The Global KAITEKI Center focuses on research aimed at realizing the concept of KAITEKI — “the sustainable well-being of people, society and our planet Earth.”

You will return home

A Thought Leader Series essay by Jack Kittinger of Conservation International reflects on the importance of home in taking action to persistently protect what we love. "When I think about the pressures we are ratcheting up on our blue planet, I think about my home," wrote Kittinger, a professor of practice in ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes.

To save life on Earth, here’s the $100 billion-a-year solution

Greg Asner, director of the new ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, is one of 19 international authors with a bold new science policy proposal — "A Global Deal for Nature" — to reverse the tide of Earth's first human-made biodiversity catastrophe.

Interview with food systems activist Raj Patel

After sustainable food activist Raj Patel delivered a Wrigley Lecture in November, we conducted a follow-up interview, which covered topics ranging from the need for collective action to what Patel wishes the media would report on in regards to our food system.

3 ASU sustainability scientists honored with Regents' Professor title

This year, four ASU faculty members are being recognized as Regents’ Professors. Three of these professors are sustainability scientists in the ASU Wrigley Institute: Osvaldo Sala, Donald Fixico and Stewart Fotheringham.