(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.
2017 Schedule of Events
| Event | 2017 Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Designing with Nature: How Biophilic Design Improves Lives | Thurs., February 2 Noon – 1:15 p.m. |
ASU Tempe campus |
| Night of the Open Door: ASU Downtown | Fri., February 3 4 – 9 p.m. |
ASU Downtown campus |
| Rooted in Peace, Film Screening | Tues., February 7 6:50 p.m. |
Harkins Valley Art Theater, Tempe |
| City Lights Movie Night – featuring Home | Fri., February 10 6:30 p.m. |
CityScape, Phoenix |
| Phoenix Urban Design Week | Fri., February 10 – Sat., February 18 | Phoenix |
| Clark Park Farmers’ Market | Sat., February 11 8 a.m. – noon |
Clark Park, Tempe |
| World Business Council for Sustainable Development | Mon., February 13 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. |
JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort |
| Meet Me Downtown Sustainability Walk | Mon., February 13 5 p.m. |
Downtown Phoenix |
| Global Reporting Initiative Reporters’ Summit North America | Mon., February 13 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. |
ASU Skysong |
| Second Nature, 2017 Presidential Climate Leadership Summit | Mon. – Wed., February 13-15 | Tempe Mission Palms |
| GreenBiz University | Tues., February 14 9 a.m. – noon |
ASU Tempe Campus Memorial Union |
| Phoenix Urban Design Week’s Sweethearts’ Lunch | Tues., February 14 | The Space Between Park, Phoenix |
| GreenBiz 17 | Tues.-Thurs., February 14-16 | JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort |
| Achieving the World’s Sustainable Development Goals | Wed., February 15 3 – 4:15 p.m. |
Wrigley Hall, Room 481, ASU Tempe Campus |
| Sustainability Solutions Celebration | Wed., February 15 | Phoenix |
| Night of the Open Door: ASU Polytechnic | Fri., February 17 4 – 9 p.m. |
ASU Polytechnic Campus |
| Sustainability Solutions Family Day | Mon., February 20 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
Arizona Science Center |
| Starfish Throwers, Film Screening | Tues., February 21 7 p.m. |
Harkins Valley Art Theater, Tempe |
| Garden Tour: Escalante Community Garden | Sat., February 25 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. |
Escalante Community Garden, Tempe |
| Night of the Open Door: ASU Tempe | Sat., February 25 3 – 9 p.m. |
ASU Tempe Campus |
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 |
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.For partnership or general inquiries, contact:
- Kelly Saunders
- Program Manager, Sustainability Solutions Festival, Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives
- 480-965-4353
- Kelly.R.Saunders@asu.edu
- Jeanine Malone
- Office Specialist Sr, Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives
- 480-727-3089
- Jeanine.Malone@asu.edu
For media inquiries, contact:
- Jason Franz
- Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing and Communications, Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives
- 480-727-4072
- Jason.Franz@asu.edu
