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.
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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. Sustainability Series: Sustainable Investing: Redefining Capitalism
Other Events - On Campus
2. Executive Lecture Series: Want Your next International Venture to Succeed? Better Check Your ‘tudes
Other Events - Off Campus
3. Rachel Bess: Raising Backyard Chickens
4. Webinar: Building the Foundation for Carbon Neutrality: Key Elements of and Effective Climate Change
5. Webinar: Why Managing Scope 3 Emissions will Strengthen Your Carbon Neutrality Claim
6. Webinar: How to go Carbon Neutral (and Benefit from It)
7. GreenBuild 2016 Expo and Conference: Iconic Green
News and Announcements
8. The Future of the Suburban City: Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix
9. ASU moves up in global patent ranking
10. UGEC Viewpoints: Towards transformative and climate-compatible urban development pathways
11. The pitfalls of putting a price on nature: What's next for natural capital?
13. LEGO builds change through its youngest stakeholders
14. A great passion for the great outdoors
15. First-ever international standard for measuring food loss & waste launched
16. How bikesharing puts two-wheel mobility in high gear
17. ASU researcher creates system to control robots with the brain
18. Arizona Department of Water Resource Drought Program
Other Jobs
19. Environmental Initiatives Coordinator, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters
21. Blue Cities Fellowship, Charles River Watershed Association, Westin, Massachusetts
22. Lecturer/Researcher in River Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands
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EVENTS
Free Film Screening: The True Cost
(Tuesday, August 23, 2016) The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry has on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. This film asks us to consider who really pays the price for our clothing? 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.
Sustainability Series: Sustainable Investing: Redefining Capitalism
(Thursday, September 15, 2016) James Wennlund, Wennlund Wealth Management of Raymond James will present Sustainable Investing: Redefining Capitalism from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in room 481, Wrigley Hall, Arizona State University at the Tempe campus. More information and registration.
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On Campus
Executive Lecture Series: Understanding the Psychology of Pricing
(Tuesday, July 19, 2016) Join Rick Baer for this discussion of how people’s emotions impact their understanding of pricing. From 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the AT&T Auditorium, Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1 Global Place, Glendale. More information.
Executive Lecture Series: Want Your next International Venture to Succeed? Better Check Your ‘tudes
(Tuesday, August 9, 2016) One of the trickiest growth challenges companies face is to duplicate domestic business success in overseas markets. In this new and inspiring presentation, Thunderbird professor Richard Ettenson will present his latest thought leadership research aimed at helping executives and companies improve their chances of overseas success. From 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the AT&T Auditorium, Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1 Global Place, Glendale. More information.
Off Campus
SRP Free Shade Tree Planting Workshop
(Saturday, July 16, 2016) SRP customers must register and attend a tree planting workshop to be eligible for the SRP Shade Tree Program. You'll learn more about the eligible trees, and the best methods for planting and caring for the new trees. The workshops will be conducted by the Valley Permaculture Alliance. From 8:00-10:00 a.m. at Tempe History Museum, 809 E. Southern Ave, Tempe. More information and registration.
GreenBiz Webcast: A Next-Generation Solar Strategy for Commercial Operations
(Tuesday, July 19, 2016) As businesses rely more on energy-intensive operations, including data centers and manufacturing facilities, solar is steadily gaining traction as a choice for powering large commercial and industrial facilities. In this free, one-hour webcast, you’ll learn: The opportunities for companies seeking low-cost/low-risk solar energy solutions; how to enter into long-term contracts for solar resources; how a major data center player implemented solar into its portfolio; and how a major consumer-facing company implemented solar energy. At 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. MT). More information and registration.
Rachel Bess: Raising Backyard Chickens
(Saturday, July 23, 2016) Permaculturist Rachel Bess will show you how easy it is to keep chickens in your backyard. Chickens make great pets, efficient bug and weed eaters and excellent soil tillers, not to mention that they provide us with wonderful fresh eggs! Learn how to successfully keep urban chickens in the desert. We'll cover everything from getting your first baby chicks all the way through breakfast providers. From 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at Mesa Express Library, 2055 S. Power Road, Suite 1031 (entrance 5 of the Power Square Mall). ). For more information, please visit: www.MesaLibrary.org or call (480) 644-3100.
Webinar: Building the Foundation for Carbon Neutrality: Key Elements of and Effective Climate Change
(Wednesday, July 27, 2016) The Arbor Day Foundation has partnered with SCS Global Services (SCS) to help companies work carbon neutrality into their climate action plans. This is first of three free webinars that will take an in-depth look at how to develop a great climate action plan for your company and reach carbon neutrality, and how you can work with the Arbor Day Foundation and SCS to get there. At 12:00-1:00 p.m. CT (10:00-11:00 a.m. MT). More information and registration.
Webinar: Why Managing Scope 3 Emissions will Strengthen Your Carbon Neutrality Claim
(Wednesday, August 3, 2016) The Arbor Day Foundation has partnered with SCS Global Services (SCS) to help companies work carbon neutrality into their climate action plans. This is second of three free webinars that will take an in-depth look at how to develop a great climate action plan for your company and reach carbon neutrality, and how you can work with the Arbor Day Foundation and SCS to get there. At 12:00-1:00 p.m. CT (10:00-11:00 a.m. MT). More information and registration.
Webinar: How to go Carbon Neutral (and Benefit from It)
(Wednesday, August 10, 2016) The Arbor Day Foundation has partnered with SCS Global Services (SCS) to help companies work carbon neutrality into their climate action plans. This is third of three free webinars that will take an in-depth look at how to develop a great climate action plan for your company and reach carbon neutrality, and how you can work with the Arbor Day Foundation and SCS to get there. At 12:00-1:00 p.m. CT (10:00-11:00 a.m. MT). More information and registration.
SRP Free Shade Tree Planting Workshop
(Saturday, August 13, 2016) SRP customers must register and attend a tree planting workshop to be eligible for the SRP Shade Tree Program. You'll learn more about the eligible trees, and the best methods for planting and caring for the new trees. The workshops will be conducted by the Valley Permaculture Alliance. From 8:00-10:00 a.m. at Mesa Convention Center, 263 N. Center St, Mesa. More information and registration.
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. For more information.
GreenBuild 2016 Expo and Conference: Iconic Green
(Wednesday-Friday, October 5-7, 2016) Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. The green building community gathers to share ideals and mutual passion at Greenbuild, sparking a contagious buzz throughout the week. Greenbuild features three groundbreaking days of inspiring speakers, invaluable networking opportunities, industry showcases, LEED workshops and tours of the host city's green buildings. Join thousands of other people who agree that green building is a good idea and good for business. For more information and registration.
2016 AASHE Conference & Expo: Beyond the Campus
(Sunday-Wednesday, October 9-12, 2016) Join us in Baltimore, MD, for the 2016 AASHE Conference & Expo! AASHE's educational program covers the higher education sustainability community's most relevant and timely topics - providing leadership and change agency needed to institutionalize sustainability in higher education. In each session, top thought leaders offer insights that will inspire, motivate, energize and empower campus leaders to advance sustainability in higher education and beyond. For more information and registration (early bird until July 31, 2016).
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The Future of the Suburban City: Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix
Grady Gammage, Jr., Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, has released his latest book. In the book, Gammage takes a fresh look at what it means to be sustainable and examines issues facing most suburban cities around water supply, heat, transportation, housing, density, urban form, jobs, economics, and politics. The Future of the Suburban City is a realistic yet hopeful story of Phoenix, its promise and challenges, and what is possible for any suburban city. More information.
ASU moves up in global patent ranking
There’s a device that pulls water out of the desert air, a gadget that instantly gauges human immune system reactions and a gizmo that measures indoor contaminants by testing the condensation from an air conditioner — an air-quality check that doesn't require entering a building. Read more.
UGEC Viewpoints: Towards transformative and climate-compatible urban development pathways
With the Paris City Hall Declaration, the thousands of city and regional authority representatives who joined during COP21 the first-of-this-kind Climate for Local Leaders Summit showed the strong commitment of cities and regions to be on the front line against climate change. Read more.
The pitfalls of putting a price on nature: What's next for natural capital? (From GreenBiz.com)
The United Kingdom is the latest to take a closer look at how putting a price on nature might figure into government policy. In September, the government pledged to produce a 25-year environment plan to lay out how the U.K. can best ensure a "healthy natural economy." But the idea of putting a price on the so-called ecosystem services provided by nature has been controversial from the start. Read more.
Sustaining the Commons
Imagine a village that boasts an open meadow with tall grasses accessible to all. A local farming family has grazed sheep there for years without issue. But when the rest of the town’s sheep farmers discover its lush pastures, it becomes over-grazed and unable to feed anyone’s sheep. Read more.
LEGO builds change through its youngest stakeholders (from GreenBiz.com)
Pester-power is that relentless energy that marketers love to ignite in children in order to influence their parents’ buying behavior. In an effort to transform pester-power into a force for good, LEGO marketers are giving kids a platform for using the beloved bricks to express their vision for a better world. Read more.
A great passion for the great outdoors
A love of animals and of working in their habitats has guided the career of President's Professor Andrew Smith, a pioneer in conservation biology. As he begins his final year at ASU, Smith has received the Aldo Leopold Award from the American Society of Mammalogists for his lasting contributions. Read more.
First-ever international standard for measuring food loss & waste launched
Last month, the Food Loss & Waste Protocol launched the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting (FLW) Standard, a first-of-its-kind framework designed to help organizations, nations, regions and other entities around the world report on food loss and waste. Read more.
How bikesharing puts two-wheel mobility in high gear (from GreenBiz.com)
Whether commuting, running errands or just getting some exercise, bicycling is experiencing a resurgence in the United States. And in the growing number of cities with bikeshare programs, you don’t even need to own your own bike. Read more.
ASU researcher creates system to control robots with the brain
A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain. A controller wears a skull cap outfitted with 128 electrodes wired to a computer. The device records electrical brain activity. If the controller moves a hand or thinks of something, certain areas light up. Read more.
Arizona Department of Water Resource Drought Program
June 2016 drought summary is online.
June Southwest Climate Outlook
The June 2016 Southwest Climate Outlook is online.
CLIMAS Podcast: June 2016 – SW Monsoon: Predictably Inevitable, but Inevitably Unpredictable
Tune into the Southwest Climate podcasts on iTunes or Southwest Climate Change Network.
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OPPORTUNITIES
None at this time.
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Community Health Worker Internship Program, Maricopa County, Arizona
Application deadline July 18, 2016. More information.
Program Analyst, USAID, Washington, D.C.
Application deadline July 18, 2016. More information.
Environmental Initiatives Coordinator, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters
Application deadline July 20, 2016. More information.
Associate Specialist (Water Law & Policy Fellow), Boalt School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Application deadline July 21, 2016. More information.
Conservation Staff Specialist II, Natural Resources, State of Nevada, Carson City or Las Vegas, Nevada
Application deadline July 21, 2016. More information.
Sustainability Program Manager, City of Tempe, Arizona
Application deadline July 22, 2016. More information.
Program Officer, International Center on Small Hydro Power, Latin America
Application deadline July 22, 2016. More information.
Blue Cities Fellowship, Charles River Watershed Association, Westin, Massachusetts
Application deadline July 25, 2016. More information.
Wetland and Natural Resource Specialist, Washington Conservation District, Oakdale, Minnesota
Application deadline July 29, 2016. More information.
Applied Climate Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Columbia
Application deadline July 29, 2016. More information.
Program Director, Sustainable Neighborhoods Initiative, Sustain Dane, Madison, Wisconsin
Application deadline July 29, 2016. More information.
Director of Development (Global Water), The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia
Application deadline July 31, 2016. More information.
Fisheries Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, California
Application deadline July 31, 2016. More information.
Director of the Sustainability Institute/Chief Sustainability Officer, Penn State University, University Park Campus
Review of applications begins July 31, 2016. More information.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Hydrological Modeling and Water Resources Management, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas
Application deadline August 4, 2016. More information.
Lecturer/Researcher in River Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands
Application deadline August 18, 2016. More information.
Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability, Cornell University
Application deadline August 19, 2016. More information.
Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Application deadline August 21, 2016. More information.
Great Lakes Environmental Compliance Specialist, NOAA Contractor, Chanhassen, Minnesota
Application deadline August 31, 2016. More information.
Education Lead, LTER Network Communications Office, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Application deadline September 26, 2016. More information.
Presidential Chair, Water Resources and Food Systems Sustainability, University of California-Santa Cruz
Application deadline October 7, 2016. More information.
Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Americorps, West Virginia
Application deadline December 31, 2016. More information.
Senior Biologist, EcoPlan, Mesa, Arizona
Environmental Coordinator, Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, Coachella, California
Range Resource Area Manager, Arizona State Land Department
There are three positions open, Job Id 23340. More information.
Communications Associate, Smart Growth America, Washington, D.C.
Scientific Web Developer/Designer, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California-Santa Barbara
Job #20160165 more information.
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