SUSTAINABILITY DIGEST
The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability provides this list to announce seminars, meetings, colloquiums, lectures, brown bags, announcements of interest, and job opportunities to the Institute community. If you have items you’d like to add please submit them to Cindy.Zisner@asu.edu before 5 PM Wednesday. This Digest is sent out on Friday morning. You may subscribe, unsubscribe, or change subscriber settings at http://lists.asu.edu/archives/giosasu.html under the Options where it says Join or Leave GIOSASU. You can see archives of list messages at the same address.
NEW ITEMS
(Current items remain in the Digest until they happen so don’t forget to peruse the web listing in case you missed something in the previous week.)
Institute Events
1. Webinar: Integrated Land Use: What do Individuals and Societies Need from Landscapes?
Other Events - On Campus
2. Memorial Day Carillon Concert
Other Events - Off Campus
4. Environmental Racism – "Neighborhoods at Risk"
News and Announcements
5. ASU LightWorks director receives clean air champion award
6. New edition of Sustaining the Commons
7. UGEC Viewpoints: The 2011 Thai floods: An urban political ecology analysis
8. SolarCity's solar + storage play on Kauai
9. After Paris, the first steps
10. AskNature: How do you manage waste?
12. Can Greenhealth Exchange transform hospital supply chains?
13. Attention kid scientists! – The President wants your ideas on science and technology
14. May Southwest Climate Outlook
Institute Jobs
17. Program Manager
Other Jobs
18. Lecturer, Environmental Science & Ecology, State University of New York-Plattsburgh
19. Environmental Technician, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
20. Senior Wildlife Biologist, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
21. Water Program Director, The Nature Conservancy, Nevada
25. Environmental Inspector, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
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EVENTS
Free Film Screening: The Path of Resistance
(Wednesday, June 1, 2016) The Path of Resistance explores the front-line communities living along the proposed route of the Keystone XL Pipeline and their fight to stop the project. Doors open 6:30 p.m.; showtime 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Valley Art Theater, 509 S. Mill Ave, Tempe. More information and RSVP.
Webinar: Integrated Land Use: What do Individuals and Societies Need from Landscapes?
(Thursday, June 2, 2016) This webinar will discuss the difficult balance we now face in feeding upwards of 9 billion while maintaining other ecosystem services, and between individual and societal benefits. Case studies will include grasslands and forests in northern and southern China, farm-forest-estuary interfaces in Maritime Canada, and crop-grassland agriculture in western North America and eastern Australia. From 10:15-11:45 a.m. MST. More information and registration.
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On Campus
Memorial Day Carillon Concert
(Friday, May 27, 2016) The ASU Carillon Society will present a Memorial Day concert of patriotic music. The concert may be heard around the Memorial Union and on Old Main Lawn on the Tempe campus from 12:00-1:00 p.m. To see the carillon live, go to the Lower Level of Old Main.
Special School of Engineering for Matter, Transport and Energy Seminar: An Organic Molecule based Aqueous Flow Battery
(Friday, May 27, 2016) Qing Chen, Harvard University will present An Organic Molecule based Aqueous Flow Battery at 3:00 p.m. in room 240, ISTB4, Arizona State University at the Tempe campus. For more information contact Durella.ODonnell@asu.edu.
Off Campus
Environmental Racism – “Neighborhoods at Risk”
(Thursday, June 2, 2016) Arizona Faith Network's Earth Care Commission is sponsoring a talk about Environmental Racism by Jennifer Richter, Arizona State University from 6:00-8:30 p.m. at the Library Community Room, South Mountain Community College, 7050 S. 24th St, Phoenix. For more information go to www.AZFaithNetwork.org.
Green Building Lecture Series: Green Innovative Built Projects: Energizing a 1979 Home
(Thursday, June 2, 2016) What are some of our citizens and building professionals doing to create better homes? What is possible considering budget and space constraints? Come see and hear about successes with projects that exemplify principles of resource conservation, comfort, healthy living and improved home value. From 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Granite Reef Senior Center, 1700 N Granite Reef Rd, Scottsdale. More information.
Sustainability and Textiles
(Monday-Thursday, June 6-9, 2016) Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles is a four-day series of lectures, discussions, panels, and hands-on workshops focusing on sustainability and technology in fashion and textiles. This year an optional fifth day has been added to close the loop on the conference in a mindful way, as well as add a full day of site visits to relevant industry locations. Designed for industry professionals as well as academics wishing to broaden their understanding of sustainability and how to support its integration into the industry. This interdisciplinary program is important for designers, technologists, educators, and those involved in creation or production, as well as those seeking greater business and professional knowledge. At the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. More information and registration.
LeanPath Webinar: Tips for a Waste-Free Kitchen from Dana Gunders
(Wednesday, June 8, 2016) This webinar will explore tips to reduce that waste, from at-home to commercial food-service kitchens. Dana will highlight some of the checklists, recipes, and practical strategies from her book released in late 2015, Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money By Wasting Less Food. After a short presentation, LeanPath’s Andrew Shakman will join Dana for a facilitated discussion of how many of the tips can apply to food-service operations, and ideas you can put to work in your operation. At 10:00 a.m. PDT. More information and registration.
VERGE Hawaii: Asian Pacific Clean Energy Summit
(Tuesday-Thursday, June 21-23, 2016) The Hawaii State Energy Office has partnered with the GreenBiz Group to launch VERGE Hawaii — Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit. VERGE Hawaii will explore innovative clean energy policies, models, technologies and infrastructure and sets the stage for immediate actions and plans needed to deliver on Hawaii’s ambitious goal of 100% renewably powered energy by 2045. Further, this VERGE event will serve as a platform for Hawaii’s energy leaders and stakeholders to engage, learn and contribute. More information.
2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science
(Thursday-Saturday, June 23-25, 2016) This 2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science is an interdisciplinary event designed to engage a broad community of researchers - academics, industry experts, open data activists, government agency workers, and think tank analysts – dedicated to advancing social science knowledge through computational methods. This event affords the opportunity to meet and discuss works in which social systems and dynamics are investigated in a quantitative way through large datasets that are either mined from various sources (e.g. social media, communication systems) or created via controlled experiments or computational modeling. Hosted by the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. More information.
KDD2016: 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: KDD Workshop on Data Science for Food, Energy, and Water
(Sunday, August 14, 2016) Recognizing the need for orchestrated efforts to address the many interrelated data scientific challenges for the security of Food, Energy and Water, the goal of this workshop will be three-fold: 1. To introduce the emerging area of “data science for food, water and energy (DS-FEW)” to the KDD community; 2. To invite scientists and practitioners in the FEW domains to the KDD community, and interest them in leveraging our technology and expertise; 3. To innovate new technology, leveraging existing KDD technology where appropriate, to address the challenges we face in FEW, by bringing together a multi-disciplinary audience and enticing them to synergize. This workshop is part of the entire conference which occurs from August 13-17. Call for papers submission deadline is May 27, 2016 and the notification date will be June 13, 2016. For more information.
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ASU LightWorks director receives clean air champion award
The Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition is one of 90 coalitions across the country designated by the U.S. Department of Energy to reduce the use of petroleum motor fuel. Every two years, Valley of the Sun and Tucson Regional Coalitions stage a Legislative Breakfast, where legislators, staff and civic leaders are invited to learn the latest in the means of reducing the use of petroleum fuel. This event features key speakers and a comprehensive display of alternative fuel vehicles and recognizes those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to these goals. Read more.
New edition of Sustaining the Commons
John Anderies and Marco Janssen (senior sustainability scientists) have recently published a new edition of Sustaining the Commons textbook. The book provides a succinct introduction to the work of the late Elinor Ostrom (who was also a distinguished sustainability scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability) on how to study the governance of common resources. The book can be downloaded at https://sustainingthecommons.asu.edu/.
UGEC Viewpoints: The 2011 Thai floods: An urban political ecology analysis
In the second half of 2011, Bangkok experienced its worst flooding in decades. Overall, the floods killed over 800 people, affected millions, and cost the economy at least US$45 billion. Much of this devastation occurred in Bangkok and its surroundings. Read more.
SolarCity's solar + storage play on Kauai (from GreenBiz.com)
To the islanders of Kauai, worries about sea level rise swallowing their coastline tourism industry and memories of how tough things were when electricity rates spiked with the price of oil are constants: They come up in conversation; in daily decisions; and in island policy. Read more.
After Paris, the first steps
The Paris climate talks last December were a lot like graduation. First, elation. Almost 200 countries reaching an agreement! Finally, victory after the disappointments in Kyoto and Copenhagen! There’s hope! Then, depression. Reduction targets will be voluntary. Countries aren’t obligated to put their climate action plans into actual action. Is anything really going to get done, by anybody? Read more.
AskNature: How do you manage waste? (From GreenBiz.com)
It’s not pretty, but waste is an inevitable byproduct of life. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and sometimes the outcome is waste. Developments we’re making in health, technology, engineering and practically every other industry have enabled our societies to advance exponentially. Read more.
A bright, bold plan
It could be ripped from a comic book, but it’s not. A Russian billionaire drops $100 million on a decades-long mission to send a fleet of tiny spacecraft out of the solar system to the nearest star system, enlisting the help of a boy tech mogul and some of the world’s most brilliant scientists, one of whom communicates with an electronic speech synthesizer. Read more.
Can Greenhealth Exchange transform hospital supply chains? (From GreenBiz.com)
Four major companies with 54 hospitals and $4 billion in annual purchasing power launched an online marketplace to steer the health care industry in an environmentally beneficial direction. Read more.
Attention kid scientists! – The President wants your ideas on science and technology
The White House is inviting kids from around the country to submit ideas on important science, innovation, and technology issues. Read more.
ASU Research Computing is seeking research images/visualizations from our community!
With your permission, we would like to use these images for future marketing materials and our digital signage. In addition, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) is soliciting research images from member institutions - there is a potential that these images will be featured on the CASC website and brochure - both of which are highly visible at the federal level. (More about CASC here: http://casc.org). If you would like to submit your visualizations for consideration, please contact Marisa Brazil as soon as possible. The deadline is May 31st! We would LOVE to have ASU featured in these materials!
Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy, University of Illinois-Chicago
Water and energy have long been thought of, and addressed as, two separate issues. With the advent of systems thinking, life cycle assessment, and other interdisciplinary analysis strategies, this deep connection between water and energy has been widely acknowledged only recently. The 6th annual Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy: Nexus program will: explore the relationship between energy and water through systems approach, with an eye towards environmental and agricultural impacts; explore the use of water, especially in energy extraction (fracking) and generation; and highlight the role of the grid in energy issues, emphasizing three specific areas: smart grid, storage for the grid, and the distribution of energy. Across all topics, participants will examine where the United States is to date, potential paths moving forward, and obstacles and opportunities for each path. Situated on one of the largest bodies of freshwater on Earth and playing host to a large and complex grid system, Chicago will be the focal point of discussions of the nexus. The program will occur from August 4-17, 2016 in Chicago. Application deadline is July 1, 2016. More information.
Arizona Department of Water Resource Drought Program
April 2016 drought summary is online.
May Southwest Climate Outlook
The May 2016 Southwest Climate Outlook is online.
CLIMAS Podcast: May 2016 – Even more disappointment re: El Niño and looking towards the impending "Doom Season"
Tune into the Southwest Climate podcasts on iTunes or Southwest Climate Change Network.
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OPPORTUNITIES
Coordinator, Sustainability Connect and Food Systems Transformation Initiative
Instructions to Apply: To review and apply go to ASU Human Resources, click on Current ASU Employee or External Applicants, and in the “Requisition ID” section, type 22857BR.
Events Coordinator Senior
Instructions to Apply: To review and apply go to ASU Human Resources, click on Internal or External Applicants, and in the “Requisition ID” section, type 22890BR.
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Transitions and Implementation) in Urban Resilience to Weather-Related Extreme Events
Application deadline May 31, 2016. More information.
Program Manager
Instructions to Apply: To review and apply go to ASU Human Resources, click on Internal or External Applicants, and in the “Requisition ID” section, type 22669BR.
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Extension Education, Water Resources, Michigan State University
Application deadline June 1, 2016. More information.
Lecturer, Environmental Science & Ecology, State University of New York-Plattsburgh
Application deadline June 3, 2016. More information.
Environmental Technician, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Application deadline June 3, 2016. More information.
Senior Wildlife Biologist, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Application deadline June 8, 2016. More information.
Water Program Director, The Nature Conservancy, Nevada
Application deadline June 8, 2016. More information.
Scholar-In-Residence, Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering Design, McGill University
Application deadline June 15, 2016. More information.
Postdoctoral Researchers, Abrupt Change in Ecological Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Application deadline June 15, 2016. More information.
Post doctoral researcher in Organization and Management (Sustainable business and/or corporate responsibility), Aalto University, Finland
Application deadline June 17, 2016. More information.
Environmental Specialist-Climate Change, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Application deadline July 1, 2016. More information.
Environmental Specialist-Air Quality, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Application deadline July 1, 2016. More information.
Environmental Inspector, Department of Environmental Quality, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Application deadline July 7, 2016. More information.
Science and Policy Internships, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Various locations, USA
Application deadline July 15, 2016. More information.
Executive Director, University Supply Chain, Arizona State University
Southwest Organizer, National Young Farmers’ Coalition, Durango, CO (or remotely in Southwest)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences, Climate, Ecosystem, and Fire Applications, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada
Scientific Web Developer/Designer, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California-Santa Barbara
Job #20160165 more information.
Health and Environmental Investigator IV, Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, Department of Public Health, Seattle and King County, Washington
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