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January, 2008

ASU Event to Open up Climate Talks

January 28, 2008

Arizona Republic
From a young age, small environmental efforts like this were embedded in my thought process. I saw how being environmentally savvy was a social event because I got to do it with my favorite person; an environmental event because cans were not being put in the garbage; and an economic event, because I earned a small dividend! Although these realizations came much later, the founding principles were there.

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ASU to Join “Focus the Nation” Effort

January 28, 2008

Arizona Republic
To help create solutions to global warming, more than 1,200 colleges, universities and high schools in Arizona and across the United States this week will participate in Focus the Nation, a teach-in to educate and energize about 1 million young adults.

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Safe Recycling of E-Waste Is a Priority

January 25, 2008

by Eric Williams for the Arizona Republic

Photo of Eric Williams, Professor at Arizona State UniversityFinally, it has arrived: your new desktop computer with a 3Ghz processor and a screaming-fast video card that will realistically render the digital sweat on virtual enemies in your favorite video game.

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Professors See Solutions in Slime

January 25, 2008

ASU News

You know algae. It’s the gunk that collects on the sides of a fish tank when you forget to clean it. It’s the slime that makes you slip on rocks while crossing a stream. You probably think of algae as a nuisance, if you even bother to think of it at all.

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Researchers Land 2 Grants to Develop New Solar Cells

January 23, 2008

ASU News

Two grants to ASU for development of new solar energy technologies show how ASU’s solar energy research has grown in new and important ways.

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