Sustainability Events

Preventing or slowing climate change presents uniquely difficult challenges that push the limits of traditional policy analysis in guiding solutions. Both the potential damages of climate change and potential solutions that require transforming human energy use are 1) large, so that any choices structurally affect economics; 2) show, with timescales...

Join Arizona State University Sustainability Practices and Campus Student Sustainability Initiatives for the fourth annual State of Sustainability at ASU. This event will also celebrate ASU’s designation as the largest fair trade university in the nation.

President Michael Crow will announce the updated sustainability goals for the university, followed by a...

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction, bearing witness to a global crossroads as they call for human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era.

Watch the trailer here.

Following the film, we...

Join us for a screening of five short films created by students from the School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, under the direction of sustainability scientist and director of Carbon Nation®, Peter Byck. Student speakers will be present to discuss and answer questions about...

The bruising farm bill debate has highlighted many unresolved food policy issues. Rising diabesity, SNAP access, trade wars, water shortages, climate change risks, the consequences of increased global demand for protein…the list of food policy issues is long and growing. How will the new ASU Swette Center for Sustainable Food...

Clark Miller
Associate Director, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Kent Walter
Manager, Customer Technology, Arizona Public Service

Justin Olson
Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

Kiana Sears
Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

Rodney Glassman
Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

Sandra Kennedy
Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

Join us for...

Volunteer with the "Susty Cyclists" Team at Tempe's biggest annual cycling event, as the New Belgium Brewing Company brings the Tour de Fat to Tempe Beach Park!

To join our team, click the Register HERE button below and select the "Susty Cyclists" team, under the "Team Name" Tab. Under Station...

Ramachandra Guha is an award-winning historian of Indian democracy, the biographer of Mahatma Gandhi, and a scholar of environmentalism. As a public intellectual and columnist, he reaches 20 million readers in 10 languages. His latest book is Gandhi, The Years that Changed the World: 1914-1948.

Gandhi...

Jennifer Caraway is an accomplished restaurateur and the creator/owner of The Joy Bus Diner, a 100% nonprofit restaurant, in the North 32nd neighborhood in Phoenix. Caraway is a true pioneer in the field of social entrepreneurship and has dedicated her life and passions to serving home-bound cancer patients in our...

CAUTION: this film shows graphic violence towards animals that you may find disturbing.

Filmed in Australia, this documentary is an uncompromising, damning exploration of the ways animals are used and abused by humans, particularly in the meat, dairy, egg, clothing, and entertainment industries.

Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through...

With a wide range of missions in support of the Nation's defense and civil-works infrastructure, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has unique opportunities and challenges in integrating sustainable practices into its operations.

Karen Baker helped lead the Army team that authored the Army Strategy for the Environment, the...

In 2011, Jacq and her husband bought a house in Tempe and decided to jump into gardening by learning and applying multiple disciplines of natural gardening. From their early efforts, they have built themselves a high density food forest in the middle of the city, dubbed "the Epic...

The International Congress on Orthopterology is an interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in all aspects of orthopterology. For the first time, the Congress will take place in Africa, under the sub-title "Challenges in front of Climatic and Environmental Changes." The Orthopterists’ Society hosts the...

In today’s media, the future seems ominously uncertain. These “doomsday” narratives on climate change can serve to instill hopeless inaction, rather than spur positive societal change.

In this talk, Jesse Hernreich from the Ecosa Institute, a design school in Prescott, AZ focused on Regenerative Ecological Design, will present a...

The Colorado River is essential to the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of the American West.

In cities like Phoenix, Denver, and Las Vegas, the Colorado River contributes to the water supplies of more than 1 in 10 Americans.

After nearly two decades of drought in the West and growing concern over...