Grady Gammage, Jr.

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Grady Gammage, Jr.

• Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
• Senior Research Fellow, Morrison Institute for Public Policy
• Attorney, Gammage & Burnham PLC

In this talk, Gammage will give an overview of Watering the Sun Corridor: Managing Choices in Arizona's Megapolitan Area, a report he coauthored that was published by ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy.

Grady Gammage, Jr. is a Senior Fellow at the Morrison Institute. His work there focuses on urban growth and development, quality of life, and local economical issues. He also teaches at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

February 27, 2012
3:30- 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

Greg Stanton

William McDonough

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Greg Stanton

• Mayor, City of Phoenix

William McDonough

• McDonough Advisors / William McDonough + Partners Architecture and Community Design / McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry

Join us for an outdoor event at The Ro2 Lot—a temporary pocket park—for a vibrant conversation on urban sustainability and the pressing issue of what should happen to vacant lots and underused public spaces.

Greg Stanton, recently elected Mayor of Phoenix, has committed to transforming Phoenix into the "Silicon Valley of Sustainability."

William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle, has been a leader in sustainable development since the 1970s. Trained as an architect, McDonough’s interests and influence range widely, and he works at scales from the global to the molecular.

Moderated by School of Sustainability alumnus Colin Tetreault, Senior Policy Advisor for Sustainability, Office of the Mayor

Additional Sponsors: Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation, Urban Initiatives, Continental Shift, Edge Industries

February 22, 2012
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
(continental breakfast by Nami)
The Ro2 Lot, NE Corner 2nd & Roosevelt
1005 N 2nd St, Phoenix
Street parking available

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During the Third International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS 2012), the School of Sustainability will host an information session on opportunities to study and research at international sustainability programs around the world.

This session will consist of brief talks by representatives from each of the following programs:

• Makoto Yokohari, Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Jordi Segalàs, Research Institute of Sustainability, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
• Barry Ness, Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Sweden
• Daniel Lang, Faculty Sustainability Science, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
• Alan Brent, Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Arnim Wiek, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

ASU undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty are invited to join conference participants for this session. After the talks, attendees of the session will have time to pick up literature, connect individually with the program representatives, and ask any questions they might have.

If you have any questions, please email john.harlow@asu.edu.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Wrigley Hall 101
ASU Tempe Campus

Jose Miguel Guzman

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Jose Miguel Guzman

• Chief of the Population and Development Branch, UN Population Fund

At June’s Rio+20 Conference, representatives from across the globe will meet to adopt a new framework for sustainable development. In this talk, Guzman argues that population dynamics should be part of the outcome document of Rio and shows the difficulties in ensuring this outcome.

Before joining the UN, Guzman worked for the Population Division of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Over his career, Guzman has focused on population dynamics, fertility, mortality, demographic transition, population projections, urbanization, and, most recently, linkages between population and climate change.

February 14, 2012
12:00 -1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

Mark Edwards

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Mark Edwards

• Professor, Strategic Marketing and Sustainability
• Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management
• College of Technology and Innovation
• Arizona State University

In this talk, Edwards discusses how we can grow healthier foods, feeds, fertilizers, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, medicines, and vaccines with abundant resources that will not run out.

Edwards writes, speaks, and consults globally on sustainable food and energy. He has authored nine books on sustainable and affordable food and energy. His book Green Algae Strategy won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Best Science Book in 2009. His most recent book, Abundance: Sustainable Fossil-Free Foods with Superior Nutrition and Taste, won the Pinnacle Gold Medal for the Best Environmental Book of 2011.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481


Reservations are at capacity. Please arrive early to ensure a good seat.

Building on the public lecture: "Global Financial Crisis: Is Green Growth the Answer?" that I gave at ASU on December 7, the seminar will give a comprehensive overview over the challenges on the way to global sustainability – and on possibilities to overcome those challenges. We will outline a possible path to sustainability in four steps: past and present, the next ten years, 2050, 2100.

In the first step, we will look into the history of economic growth up to the present crisis of globalisation. The emphasis will be on facts and on methods for assessing them. Particular emphasis will be laid on the long-term dynamics of wealth and its distribution.

In the second step we will focus on the ecological, social and economic challenges of the next ten years. This will include an analysis on the possibilities of job creation via green growth. Again, key facts will be in the foreground, but now mechanisms that shape the dynamics of the global socio-ecological system will become crucial, leading to a discussion of some advanced theoretical insights, too.

Next, we will look at the period up to 2050. Here, the likely – although not certain – rise of China will be crucial. We will look into the risks and opportunities involved, including issues of war and peace and the risks of environmental tipping points. Demography will be essential, leading to the huge financial implications of securing pensions for 9 billion people all over the world.

Finally, we will look at how a sustainable world society might look in 2100. This will become an exercise in institution design: how might markets, governments and other institutions work in a society that has overcome poverty and global environmental disruption without breaking down in a world war or another catastrophe of similar dimensions? Questions and ideas formulated by influential thinkers of the past will be discussed, a search for new answers will be launched.

SOS 494/591 Meets from 1/18 – 2/8
Wednesdays from 2 – 4pm
ASU Tempe WGHL L1-14

Wallace S. Broecker

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Wallace S. Broecker

• Newberry Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

In this talk, Wallace S. Broecker argues that global warming is creating a northward shift of the tropical rain belt, leading to marked drying in the West.

Broecker, a geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and arguably one of the world's greatest living scientists, is a leading advocate against human-caused climate change. He is a recipient of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change Research, one of the world’s largest science prizes.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101

Karen Seto

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Karen Seto

• Associate Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Over the next two decades, the combined urban population in China and India will grow by more than 700 million. During this same period, China will create at least 30 new cities of 1 million; India is expected to add 26 cities of this size. Is urbanization of this scale a problem or solution for sustainability? This talk will compare the drivers and patterns of urbanization in these two countries and discusses sustainability challenges and opportunities.

Seto studies the human transformation of land and the links between urbanization, global change, and sustainability. Before joining Yale, she was on the faculty of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University for 8 years.

Free parking is available north of the building, and SkySong is also accessible by Valley Metro (bus 72) from the Tempe Transit Center.

Friday, January 13, 2012
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
(refreshments will be served)
ASU SkySong, Convergence Room 150
1475 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale

Carlo Jaeger

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Carlo Jaeger

• Professor, Modeling Social Systems, Potsdam University, Germany
• Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University, China
• Chair, European Climate Forum

In the current global financial crisis, huge amounts of financial capital are destabilizing the world economy because this capital does not meet promising opportunities for entrepreneurial investment. In this talk, visiting scientist Carlo Jaeger discusses research on how a green-growth strategy can tackle this situation more successfully than the present obsession with public debt.

Jaeger is an economist working at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His research focuses on coordination challenges arising from global problems like financial crises and climate change.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
(refreshments will be provided)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101

Dr. Kevin Dooley

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Dr. Kevin Dooley

• Academic Director, The Sustainability Consortium
• Professor of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business

Learn about how The Sustainability Consortium is working with corporations, academics, NGOs, and governments around the globe to create science and tools that will improve the environmental and social performance of consumer products.

Dooley is a world-known expert in applying complexity science to help organizations improve. He has published over 100 articles in the areas of quality, innovation, organizational change, and complex systems.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

• Founder & Director
• Compassionate Cooks
• Author

Although there are abundant resources that support the practical aspects of a vegan lifestyle, many struggle with the social aspects of navigating a world that may view compassion for "food animals" as radical. In this empowering talk, Patrick-Goudreau offers tips and tactics for speaking up for what you believe in with grace and dignity.

Patrick-Goudreau is an exhilarating speaker, popular podcaster, powerful writer, talented chef, and persuasive advocate who has impacted thousands of lives. Addressing the spiritual, social, and practical aspects of being vegan, she has authored three cookbooks (The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan) and two compassionate-living books (Vegan's Daily Companion, The 30-Day Vegan Challenge).

Patrick-Goudreau will give a companion presentation, Getting to the Meat of the Matter: Debunking the Myths of Being Vegan, at Engrained Café, ASU Tempe campus, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
(enjoy vegan treats by Whole Foods, Tempe)
Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe
SW Corner of Guadalupe Rd & McClintock Dr
Book signing to follow

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

• Founder & Director
• Compassionate Cooks
• Author

"Being vegan is limiting and restrictive" and "vegans don’t get enough protein" are just two of the myths about plant-based diets that leave people fearful of experiencing a rewarding, compassionate lifestyle. In this entertaining talk, Patrick-Goudreau will offer the tools and resources for making informed food choices with joy and confidence.

Patrick-Goudreau is an exhilarating speaker, popular podcaster, powerful writer, talented chef, and persuasive advocate who has impacted thousands of lives. Addressing the spiritual, social, and practical aspects of being vegan, she has authored three cookbooks (The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan) and two compassionate-living books (Vegan's Daily Companion, The 30-Day Vegan Challenge).

Patrick-Goudreau will give a companion presentation, A Joyful Vegan in a Non-Vegan World: Survival Tips & Tactics, at Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
(enjoy a sampler plate prepared by Chef Jerome)
Engrained Café, Memorial Union, ASU Tempe
Parking: Apache Boulevard Structure ($2/hr)

Brenda Schuman-Post

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Brenda Schuman-Post

• Virtuoso Oboist

Virtuoso oboist Brenda Schuman-Post is a foremost expert on the relationship between musicians and the music industry and the people and places where African Blackwood grows.

In this talk, Schuman-Post offers an eye-opening look into the people and places, environmental and social issues surrounding this commercially threatened tree from which flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bagpipes are made.

Friday, October 14, 2011
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

(light refreshments will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481, ASU Tempe Campus

Ryan Delaney

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Ryan Delaney

• Co-Director, Carbon Roots International

Ryan Delaney recently received his Master of Science degree from the School of Sustainability, where he researched technology adoption as a development tool at the community level in Haiti. Now his experience at the School of Sustainability assists him as co-director of Carbon Roots International, a small nonprofit engaged in agricultural- and fuel-based projects in Haiti.

Delaney will discuss his experience starting this nonprofit agency, working in Haiti, the potential of biochar as a development tool, and the influence of the School of Sustainability in his work.

Thursday, October 13, 2011
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481, ASU Tempe Campus

David Sampson

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David Sampson

• Research Scientist, Decision Center for a Desert City

David will challenge the audience with questions regarding the amount of water we use for everyday activities. He will also discuss the tradeoffs in water-reduction management, comparing conservation measures to traditional and new approaches to demand management.

David is a research scientist and systems modeler. His background in systems modeling gave him the experience needed to earn a hydrological modeling position at ASU.

This event is part of ASU's "No Impact Week," a week-long series of events and experiments in low-carbon living. Register to receive daily emails on how to participate in the No Impact Experiment.

This event is co-sponsored with ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City.

Friday, September 30, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

Mick Dalrymple

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Mick Dalrymple

• ASU Project Manager, Energize Phoenix

See how you can drive your roommates crazy and also change the world through energy efficiency—at home and on a city scale—in this fun and informative talk about how low the low-hanging fruit may actually be.

Mick Dalrymple, LEED AP BD+C and HOMES, BPI and ICC Residential Energy Plans Examiner, breathes energy efficiency as the ASU project manager for Energize Phoenix. He is responsible for managing ASU’s research on the $25M federally-funded program to upgrade the downtown Phoenix core for significant energy efficiency savings.

This event is part of ASU's "No Impact Week," a week-long series of events and experiments in low-carbon living. Register to receive daily emails on how to participate in the No Impact Experiment.

Thursday, September 29, 2011
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

Trish Yasolsky

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Trish Yasolsky

• Master Gardener

Trish Yasolsky was certified a Master Gardener in 2009 and finished the Valley Permaculture Alliance Permaculture Design Course just recently. She is keenly interested in food forests, native food plants, and vegetable gardening in Arizona.

This class will give you the basic steps to begin a vegetable garden in the Southwest desert. Also, Evan from Sunizona Family Farms will offer samples of their organic fruit and share how to receive a weekly organic, veganically grown FarmBox from their sustainable family farm.

This event is part of ASU's "No Impact Week," a week-long series of events and experiments in low-carbon living. Register to receive daily emails on how to participate in the No Impact Experiment.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
(coffee and light refreshments will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

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Miguel Jardine

Greg Peterson

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Miguel Jardine

• CEO, VermiSoks

Greg Peterson

• Founder, The Urban Farm

Join Miguel Jardine and Greg Peterson as they outline three specific things you can do to contribute to your Local Food Economy and discuss the VermiSoks system.

Miguel Jardine is the CEO and founder of VermiSoks. The VermiSoks system is a virtuous cycle of green that converts consumable food by-products into lush organic growth.

Greg Peterson is the founder of the Urban Farm, a real world environmental showcase home in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona.

This event is part of ASU's "No Impact Week," a week-long series of events and experiments in low-carbon living. Register to receive daily emails on how to participate in the No Impact Experiment.

Monday, September 26, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(Lunch: "garbage" soup & "compost" cake)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

James L. Buizer »

James L. Buizer

Jim Buizer’s expertise includes climate adaptation, international climate applications, sustainability and development. Before his recent appointment at the UA, Jim was the Science Policy Advisor to ASU President Michael M. Crow and the university’s Executive Director for Strategic Institutional Advancement in the Office of the President. He also served as the Director of the University Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges in the Global Institute of Sustainability. He held appointments of Professor of Practice in Climate Adaptation Policy & Institutional Design in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability.

Jim arrived at ASU in 2003 and was appointed as founding Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives in the Office of the President, where he led the conceptualization, design and initiation of the Global Institute of Sustainability and its School of Sustainability. Jim also worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C. from 1985-2003.

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Jonathan Overpeck

Jonathan "Peck" Overpeck is a founding Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment, as well as a Professor of Geosciences and a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. Peck has published over 130 papers in climate and the environmental sciences, and recently served as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment (2007).

Peck has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze and Gold Medals, as well as the Walter Orr Roberts award of the American Meteorological Society, for his interdisciplinary research. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.

Abe Springer »

Abe Springer

Abe Springer is the Director of the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability as well as a long time professor at Northern Arizona University. Since joining the university in 1994, he and his students have been actively researching Arizona's finite groundwater resources and searching for critical answers to the region's growing challenges.

Abe studies local and regional groundwater flow systems and human impacts on them, the application of principles of sustainability to aquifer management through models, and quantifies the hydrological function of groundwater dominated ecosystems. He has collaborated with ecologists, botanists, plant physiologists, foresters, land managers, engineers, and many different subdisciplines within the Earth Sciences.

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James L. Buizer

• Director for Climate Adaptation and International Development
• Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
• University of Arizona

Jonathan Overpeck

• Co-Director, Institute of the Environment
• University of Arizona

Abe Springer

• Director and Professor
• School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
• Northern Arizona University

Join us for a cross-university climate forum, as Arizona’s premier climate scientists discuss the impacts of climate change on Arizona’s water, energy, health, and economic systems and explore practical routes of collaboration among the three universities. We will also bid a fond farewell to Jim Buizer, as he departs ASU to join UA’s Institute of the Environment as their new Director for Climate Adaptation and International Development.

Welcoming remarks by R. F. "Rick" Shangraw, Jr.
Director, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Moderated by Sander van der Leeuw
Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Closing Comments by Laura Huenneke
Vice President for Research, Northern Arizona University

Thursday, September 8, 2011
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Memorial Union, Pima Room 230
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus

Video

Climate Change in Arizona from Sustainability @ ASU on Vimeo.

Richard Cowling

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Richard Cowling

• Professor, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

This presentation explores the historical determinants of the evolution of the world's five Mediterranean-type ecosystems and discusses the implications of this for biodiversity conservation, focusing on the spectacularly diverse Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.

Cowling has published extensively—in the scientific and popular literature—on the ecology and conservation of Mediterranean-climate and arid biomes. He is widely acclaimed for his contribution to the theory and application of conservation science.

This event is co-sponsored with:

• Institute of Human Origins
• School of Life Sciences
• School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Friday, September 2, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481

Thomas Mueller

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Thomas Mueller

• President & CEO, Canada Green Building Council

The presentation will cover international trends and innovations in the green-building industry as well as new opportunities for green-building collaboration with Arizona's second-largest trading partner, Canada.

Mueller has over 15 years of experience in sustainable-resource management and planning for urban sustainability in local government, consulting, and nonprofit environments. He is president of the Canada Green Building Council, a national coalition of building-industry leaders who advance and mainstream green-building design.

This event is co-sponsored by the Canada Green Building Council and the Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Friday, August 26, 2011
Registration 8:00 a.m.
Presentation 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
(refreshments will be served)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101