Sustainability Events

The Black Power Mixtape is an archive- and music-driven documentary that examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African-American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975.

This Swedish film runs counter to US media portrayals of the Black Power Movement at the time, which was...

WARNING: 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...

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...

From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN offers a penetrating look inside America’s longest war--the War on Drugs--revealing profound implications for human rights.

The film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have...

Don’t miss this event celebrating a sustainable road trip across the American West.

Millions of Americans will be hitting the road this summer, but not everyone will be making an epic, and sustainable journey in a cutting-edge electric vehicle. Join Green Living Magazine, and the School of Sustainability as...

A unique species of wolf is making a comeback in the Southwest. Considered extinct nearly 40 years ago, the little known Mexican gray wolf has slowly pulled back from the brink of extinction—against all odds. From a founding population of just seven animals, this species has slowly grown to a...

Emilio Moran joined Michigan State University in January 2013. Before that, he was a Distinguished Professor and the James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Geography, and Director of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change at Indiana...

Are you an ecologically minded student with a flair for fashion?
Do you wonder where your clothes are made and how?
Do you hate the idea of sweatshops and believe that people who make our clothing should be treated better?

Join a community of experts, designers, and students around Arizona for a...

Seal hunting, a critical part of Inuit life, has been controversial for a long time. Now, a new generation of Inuit, armed with social media and their own sense of humor and justice, are challenging the anti-sealing groups and bringing their own voices into the conversation. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins...

Across the country, people who depend on winter for their livelihoods are feeling the heat. On the sidelines of ski and snowboard slopes, an epic struggle to reverse rising temperatures is unfolding. Ski towns and the snow sports industry are paving the way towards a clean energy future.

Joining us...

Join sustainability scientists, a current and former Arizona Corporation Commissioner, and a board member from the Salt River Project, and an engineer for a robust discussion on the future of renewable energy in Arizona.

This event is at capacity, please show up early to ensure your spot.

A light breakfast will...

The 2015 Paris Agreement promotes low-carbon energy transitions and strategies that foster adaptation and resilience but assumes the likely implementation of "climate engineering" -- actions that aim to alter the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface and/or remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.

This panel of humanists and social...

Mike Slattery is an internationally trained geographer and environmental scientist who teaches and writes on a range of environmental issues from human impacts on river systems to the socioeconomic impacts of utility-scale wind farms. He has led several global conservation programs including the establishment of a research station...

What better way to understand the integration of aquaponics into Phoenix’s urban food system, than a tour of Mesa Community Colleges Center for Urban Agriculture (CUA)? The CUA aims to promote education and public awareness about healthy eating and living through sustainable urban agriculture, aquaponics, and local food production...

For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green.

Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social...