Sustainability Solutions Festival

(re)imagine your world

What is a sustainability solution to you? Locally produced food and goods? Energy-efficient and healthy buildings built from recycled and repurposed materials? A triple-bottom-line company that respects people, the planet and business? A city completely powered by renewable energy? What about an innovation that would allow nine billion people to exist on Earth? Finding solutions to issues this complex calls for many perspectives and partners. The Sustainability Solutions Festival convenes the planet’s top sustainability events and organizations for the month of February to discover and explore how we can individually and collectively reimagine our lives and our planet.

The Festival’s many forums and events include:

Conferences
Community gatherings
Film screenings

2018 Schedule of Events

FC students at Sustainability Solutions Festival

Faculty showing worms at Sustainability Solutions Festival

This schedule is subject to change. More community partner events and event details will be added leading up to the Festival.

Event	2018 Date	Location
ASU Open Door: Polytechnic Campus	January 26	ASU Polytechnic Campus, Mesa
ASU Open Door: Downtown	February 2	ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus
Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit	February 4-6	DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Tempe
Global Reporting Initiative North American User Conference	February 5	ASU Downtown campus
World Business Council for Sustainable Development	February 5	JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort
GreenBiz 18	February 6-8	JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort
GreenBiz University: Getting Further, Faster	February 6	Alumni Lounge, ASU Memorial Union
Sustainability Series: Mercy for Animals	February 6	Changing Hands, Tempe
GreenBiz University: Selling a Better Future	February 7	Alumni Lounge, ASU Memorial Union
Sustainability Solutions Celebration	February 7	Phoenix
Making a Difference, Making a Living Career Fair	February 8	ASU Tempe Campus, Hayden Lawn
GreenBiz University: Change Management in the Face of a New Normal	February 9	Alumni Lounge, ASU Memorial Union
City Lights Movie Nights – featuring Zootopia	February 9	CityScape, Phoenix
Sustainable film screening	February 15	Harkins Valley Art, Tempe
Sustainability Solutions Family Day	February 19	Arizona Science Center
Sustainability Short Films with Peter Byck	February 22	Harkins Valley Art, Tempe
ASU Open Door: Tempe	February 24	ASU Tempe Campus

Meet Mona

Mona is our favorite local celebrity chef who likes to connect her community through food that she makes at her restaurant and brings to events in and around her neighborhood. She has put together an activity guide filled with information on how to be sustainable in how you connect via transportation, innovation, communication and education. Download your free copy of the guide now!

Mona’s Kitchen Recipe Winners

This year, Mona, in partnership with Bear Essential News for Kids, invited kids from across Arizona to submit their favorite healthy recipes that were showcased at the Sustainability Family Day at Arizona Science Center on Feb. 19. The grand winner was the Three Sisters Stew from Olivia in Peoria, AZ. Download and make each recipe yourself!

Clickable preview of pdf recipe; Energy Bites

Clickable preview of pdf recipe; Pisto Manchego

Clickable preview of pdf recipe; Cinnamon Chips

Clickable preview of pdf recipe; Aloe Smoothie

Clickable preview of pdf recipe; Cabbage Rolls

Clickable preview of pdf recipe; 3 Sister Stew

2017 Competitions

The Sustainability Solutions Festival is active throughout the year supporting competitions and festivals across the globe that encourage and promote innovation and creative among students and entrepreneurs developing solutions to our planet’s challenges.

Event	2017 Date	Location
Future City Arizona Regional Competition	January 28, 2017	Arizona State University
Intel Regional Science and Engineering Fair	May 14-19, 2017	Los Angeles, CA

2018 Sponsors

Presenting Sponsors:

2018 Partners

Become a sponsor

The Sustainability Solutions Festival provides organizations an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to a better, healthier planet. In its first two years, the Sustainability Solutions Festival has engaged more than 41,000 people of all ages and backgrounds and made more than 10 million impressions across traditional and digital media. Multiple sponsorship levels are available, as well as custom solutions to best align your organization with the Festival audience that includes global business leaders, local influencers and diverse families from across the greater Phoenix area.

Become a partner

The Sustainability Solutions Festival invites community organizations, museums, educators, cultural institutions and corporations across Arizona to join us as hosts of impactful events that develop and accelerate sustainability solutions. Submit your event to be included in the Sustainability Solutions Festival and help engage a broader audience and make the planet a better place for everyone.