ASU Opens 'Med School' for Earth's Ailments: 'First of its Kind' School at ASU Dedicated to Researching Sustainability
The Arizona Republic
05/15/08
Michael Crow sees Arizona State University's new Global Institute of Sustainability as a sort of global-issues medical school.

"Some 300 years ago, the first medical school was created with a few students, and before that, there was no such thing," said the ASU president, adding that it took hundreds of years for medical schools to create successful practices for treating the illnesses of humanity.

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Hope for a Desert Delinquent: What Phoenix, the Poster Child for Environmental Ills, is Doing Right
Grist
5/13/08
In order for Phoenix to truly be a green city, it would have to be brown. Or not brown, exactly, but the sandy shade of the mountains that surround it: the jagged peaks and parched hills that enclose the Valley of the Sun.

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Institute puts University on 'Green' Path
ASUNews
5/13/08
The new home of the Global Institute of Sustainability is one of the most eco-friendly buildings on ASU’s Tempe campus. Equally important, it is also a pleasant environment.

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Sustainability Energy Fellowship:
Five ASU Students Chosen to Explore Sustainable Energy
Global Institute of Sustainability
5/5/08
The Sustainable Energy Fellowship has announced its 2008 cohort of student Fellows. The students, selected from a highly competitive pool from around the country, will begin the year-long fellowship process at a intensive week-long program to explore the technologies, policies, and economics of sustainable energy.

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Arizona Must Think Like a Nation for it to Fulfill Promise of the Sun Corridor
Arizona Republic: Viewpoints – Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President
5/4/08
Twenty "megapolitan" areas with potential equivalent to the richest foreign countries are emerging in our nation. Arizona, with its natural assets, spirit of free enterprise and open culture is home to one of these, the Sun Corridor. These vast regions' competitiveness will drive massive economic and social opportunities.

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Major Changes to Way We Think, Plan must be Made Now to Avoid a Sprawling Suburb
Arizona Republic: Viewpoints – Grady Gammage Jr and Rob Melnick, Morrison Institute for Public Policy
5/4/08
As Arizona boosters like to point out, people "vote with their feet." In that election, more have come to Arizona than have been leaving. But a lot do leave.

For many, Arizona is a desert encampment: a good place to make money so you can afford to move on. For others, it is a sunny place to retire. But long-term commitment to this place has not been an Arizona norm.

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We're a Megapolitan Nation
Arizona Republic: Viewpoints – Robert E Lang, Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech and John Stuart Hall, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
5/4/08
Predictions of growth are not new, and neither is the idea of a network of cities. However, growth and development are now altering the United States at such a scale and pace that the "mega" concept is making its way into the mainstream of urban development and public policy.

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U.S. Gets Brave on Warming
Arizona Republic: Viewpoints – Julian Hunt, Visiting Arizona State University Professor
05/04/08
A bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers, including Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., participated in the Brazil Climate Change Forum, together with colleagues from the G8 and key emerging economies - Brazil, Mexico, China, India and South Africa.

At the February forum, U.S. representatives reassured the world that the United States is ready to reverse its policies and, independent of who wins the presidency in November, will collaborate in finding global solutions to climate change.

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Demographer Chooses Path at Crossroads of Climate, Growth
ASUNews
4/30/08
Patricia Gober understands better than most that major shifts, in a climate or a career, are periods rife with uncertainty. The professor and former chair of ASU’s department of geography was at the top of her game as a demographer and urban geographer when, a decade ago, she struck out to explore new intellectual terrain.

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Parks and Preserve Initiative
The Arizona Republic: Live Talk
4/30/08
Online discussion of Phoenix parks and preserve initiative with guest, Jim Holway, Professor of Practice at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

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The Valley Needs Great Places
The Arizona Republic: Op Ed
4/27/08
Millennium Park and the Lakefront in Chicago. Balboa Park and the beach in San Diego. Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. Stanley Park in Vancouver. Central Park in New York. Great cities have great parks and public spaces. What are our great places?

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Wind Turbines to Power Computers
The Arizona Republic
4/04/2008
People look up and ask questions like, "What in the world?" or "Is that building gonna' take off?" or "Whose idea are those things?"

Those passersby are gawking at wind turbines on the roof of Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability building on the Tempe campus. Wind turns the turbines' propellers and produces enough electricity, per turbine, to power about six computers over 24 hours.

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School of Sustainability Featured on NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
3/24/2008
NBC visited Arizona State University in February 2008 to explore in depth the nation's first School of Sustainability. Their report aired nationally March 24, 2008, on NBC Nightly News. Interviews with students, professors, and administrators shed light on challenges facing this generation of students, opportunities that await graduates, and how ASU's School of Sustainability prepares students for the future.

> Watch the NBC Nightly News video
> Watch NBC interview of ASU students
> Watch NBC interview of President Michael Crow

State Seeks to Focus on 'Green' Businesses
East Valley Tribune
3/2/2008
Arizona's economy once rested on the foundation of the five C's - copper, cotton, cattle, citrus and climate. Then came the sixth C - construction and other industries that bolstered employment such as semiconductors and aerospace. More recently, economic developers have been seeking to diversify Arizona's economy by promoting new economy stalwarts such as bioscience and information technology.

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Melnick's Appointment Boosts University's Sustainability Efforts
ASU Insight
2/15/2008
Sustainability efforts at ASU have grown significantly in the nearly three years since the university’s president, Michael Crow, made it a priority. Now the institutions that embody sustainability, such as the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) and the School of Sustainability, are getting a boost organizationally with the appointment of Rob Melnick as executive director and chief operating officer of GIOS.

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Special on the Ramifications of the Urban Transformation
Science Magazine
2/8/2008
"News articles offer an on-the-ground look at how cities are tackling specific problems from poverty and sanitation to traffic jams. Reviews and Perspectives examine how cities take shape and the impacts of urbanization on the environment, human health, economic growth, and the demographics of the developing world."
ScienceMag.com

Be sure to check out the video presentation including GIOS researcher Nancy Grimm.

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