Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema
Brig. Gen. John Adams
Lt. Col. Joe Knott
Capt. Brett Hunt
The U.S. Department of Defense is the world's largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels. The Pentagon recognizes both its dependence on fossil fuels for operations and changes in the earth’s atmosphere as national security threats. Here in Arizona, the Air Force has already installed 30 MW of solar power on Luke and Davis Monthan Air Force bases to help those installations sustain themselves if the civilian power grid fails due to a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Iraq War veteran and Operation Free supporter Capt. Brett Hunt (USA, ret.) will moderate a lively discussion with notable leaders and decision-makers engaged in the issue of energy and national security. Panelists are: Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, who represents Arizona’s 9th Congressional District; Brig. Gen. John Adams (USA, ret.), who has a storied 30-year military career that concluded at NATO; and Lt. Col. Joe Knott (USA, ret.), who served as the National Guard’s Sustainability and Energy program manager before he became a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University's School of Sustainability.
Friday, June 7, 2013
8:45 - 10:00 a.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
(breakfast will be provided)
Join us for a lunchtime conversation at the intersection of geology, sustainability, and art—in the midst of the exhibition, Cu29: Mining for You.
Ongoing demands for mineral resources in the U.S., coupled with exploding economies in India and China, are straining energy and mineral resources in unprecedented and unnerving ways. Colorado’s former state geologist Vince Matthews will offer a chilling presentation about our dwindling mineral resources.
After the presentation, Phoenix artist Matthew Moore and ASU geologist Steve Semken will join Matthews in a free-wheeling discussion. Moore will showcase the Cu29 exhibition, a collaboration with London artist Clare Patey, ASU faculty, and students. The exhibition centers on the endangered elements in the periodic table, specifically copper, a mineral at the core of Arizona’s history, economy, environment, and cultural life.
Co-sponsored by the ASU Art Museum. Limited free parking available at the Ceramics Research Center on the northeast corner of Mill Avenue and 10th Street.
In this talk, Reverend Doug Bland will tell the story of Arizona Interfaith Power and Light and its effort to mobilize people of faith in Arizona to reduce the causes of global climate change through education, advocacy, action, and prayer.
As the Co-Executive Director of Arizona Interfaith Power and Light, Revered Bland's mission is to inspire and mobilize Arizona's faith communities—Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and others—to build an equitable and sustainable future for all.
Foley oversees Penn State’s research enterprise and has served as director of the Center for Academic Excellence in Intelligence Studies, dean of College of Information Sciences and Technology, and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering. His extensive industrial experience includes working for the American Cyanamid Company and consulting with many others. Foley has authored over 100 papers, holds nearly 20 patents and, in February 2011, became the executive director of the Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) HUB through the US Department of Energy.
In this talk, Foley will discuss successes at the EEB Hub (a collaboration of major research universities, industrial firms, and national labs) and the potential of a mini-EEB Hub at Arizona State University.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 102
Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
(lunch will be provided)
In this talk, Richard Morrison will describe his experience in both managing business enterprises and counseling professional clients with reference to ethical standards and, specifically, what he calls a “standard of public virtue.” He will argue that a commitment to sustainable business practices is necessary for the common good.
Morrison received his law degree from the University of Houston in 1977. He is an attorney, a partner in several farming and ranching businesses, and an Episcopal priest, having received a master's from the San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1991. He chairs the advisory board of ASU’s Morrison Institute, which he co-founded in response to Arizona’s growing need for objective research on public-policy issues.
In 2011, Morrison received an honorary degree from the University of Arizona for his legal and professional contributions to natural-resources leadership, resolution of Indian water rights claims, and infusion of ethical considerations into managing and conserving natural resources.
The Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, which borders Amsterdam and includes Schiphol Airport, the principal international airport of the Netherlands, has established a reputation as a leading international place for corporations to establish their businesses. Haarlemmermeer has developed a unique approach to sustainability that includes the Netherlands’ first cradle-to-cradle business development designed by William McDonough.
Aldermen John Nederstigt and Arthur van Dijk are ambassadors for a sustainable economy and society in the greater Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. In this talk, they will describe how their municipality is becoming the Dutch front-runner in sustainable innovation and economic development.
Fonz Dekkers
Every local government in the Netherlands has the ambition to be more sustainable in the future. But how can you measure sustainability on this scale?
The municipality of Haarlemmermeer is the first Dutch local government to have a certified sustainability monitor. As the designer of the system, Fonz Dekkers will elaborate on how he reduced this complex system to a set of 19 critical performance indicators and how these can be used for policymaking.
Fonz Dekkers, site coordinator for ASU Global Sustainability Solutions Center at the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, is a Dutch consultant in the field of sustainability and renewable energy. He has been involved with policy and area development for the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer since 2012.
Co-sponsored by the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
(breakfast will be provided)
The economy isn't something far away that someone else is going to fix for us—we have the power to turn the economy around. Learn how your own purchasing habits can improve the local economy, create jobs, and contribute recirculating dollars for community establishments like libraries and fire departments.
Kimber Lanning is an entrepreneur and economic specialist who works to cultivate vibrant, sustainable communities and inspire a higher quality of life throughout Arizona. Lanning is actively involved in fostering cultural diversity, economic self-reliance, regional planning, and responsible growth in the greater Phoenix area.
In this talk, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty will suggest that man-made global warming spells the collapse of the age-old humanist distinction between natural history and human history. He will ask us to contemplate how our planetary crisis qualifies our sense of human universals while challenging our capacity for historical understanding.
Chakrabarty obtained his Ph.D. in History from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 1984. He holds honorary degrees from the University of London and the University of Antwerp. His current research focuses on anthropogenic climate change and its implications for historical thinking, on the history of the idea of historical truth, and on historical genealogies of crowd-politics in India.
Co-sponsored by ASU's Institute for Humanities Research. For questions or more information, contact the Institute for Humanities Research at (480) 965-3000 or ihr@asu.edu.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 101
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
(refreshments will be provided)
Asia is forecasted to become a major driver of global economic growth, while simultaneously making significant strides in environmental protection and social development. It is increasingly clear that growth models of the past are not sustainable; Asia needs to rethink how it grows to ensure that social progress and environmental protection can coexist and even reinforce business activity. This global challenge is particularly resonant in Asia, where wide-scale human needs rub against the possibility of progress.
In this talk, Pamela Mar will highlight the factors that will impact Asian development and discuss how business, policymakers, and civil society can help spur a more sustainable growth.
Pamela Mar’s work focuses on Asian development, corporate sustainability, international trade, economics, and strategy. Prior to her current positions, she was the director of the Global Finance Center of TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings, associate director for China at World Economic Forum, and worked at the Population and Community Development Association based in Bangkok. Pamela has authored several books, including Global Future: The Next Challenge of Asian Business.
ASU's InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary education and research lab, teaches students how to develop new products that create market value while serving real societal needs and minimizing impacts on the environment. In this talk, Prasad Boradkar will take us behind the scenes and offer insights about the innovation process, funding models, team-teaching, and studio/project-based learning.
Prasad Boradkar is the director of ASU's InnovationSpace. He is the author of Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects.
InnovationSpace is a joint venture among the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and the W.P. Carey School of Business.
Households depend upon food prices, incomes, and disease burdens that impact the ability to consume food. Climate change and extreme temperatures impact all of these factors. In this talk, David B. Lobell will focus on the impact of heat in growing regions that are important for food prices. He will review recent research on heat impacts and discuss whether crop yields are becoming more or less sensitive to heat.
Lobell's research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with an emphasis on climate change adaptation. His current projects span Africa, South Asia, Mexico, and the U.S. and involve tools such as remote sensing, GIS, and crop and climate models.
Oliver Pergams will speak about his work, in conjunction with colleague Patrica Zaradic, on people's changing relationship with nature. Nature recreation has declined in developed countries since the late 1980s, with one likely cause being the increased time spent on electronic media. Pergams will discuss broad-reaching impacts of this "videophilia" on environmental awareness, childhood development, public health, and conservation finance.
As a conservation scientist, Pergams has over 25 peer-reviewed scientific articles in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Public Library of Science.
Helping decision-makers influence long-term sustainable development choices for urban regions is a huge challenge. Complex-systems modeling, based on field expertise and well-defined problems, can be a useful approach to understanding and predicting big trends in the long-term behavior of urban systems. In this talk, Michel Morvan will demonstrate how complex-systems modeling has been adapted and used for urban systems.
Michel Morvan is a chief scientist at Veolia Environment where he is responsible for corporate strategies towards sustainable cities. He also serves as the president of the Scientific Committee of The CoSMo Company, a software and service startup he co-founded that specializes in complex-systems modeling.
The social, economic, and environmental tools that we use to make the world more sustainable can also be applied to solve other problems. In this way, sustainability creates value and things that are valued are embraced and enhanced. In this talk, George Brooks will explore this hypothesis and provide examples of how sustainability is being applied locally to uplift communities from poverty and malnutrition.
Brooks holds a Ph.D. in wildlife and fisheries sciences from the University of Arizona. He applies his knowledge in sustainability, particularly in sustainable agricultural systems, to address mounting challenges facing the urban environment. A founder of the urban aquaculture firm RighTrac, Brooks is a regular contributor to The Arizona Republic on sustainability, green jobs, water, diversity, and community awareness. A Phoenix native, he is a member of the PlanPhx leadership team creating the new City of Phoenix General Plan.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
(lunch will be provided)
Nils Ferrand works with farmers and stakeholders to build participatory, role-based models that help decision-makers and policymakers share and manage natural resources in Africa. In this talk, Ferrand will discuss the European project, Afromaison, which uses a multi-scale gaming tool called “Wat a Game” that explores and tests management strategies.
Ferrand’s research focuses on self-sufficient governing methods and tools in Africa and Europe. He has led an electronic public debate on coastal-area management and has designed and participated in European and national modeling projects.
Recent findings of new oil and gas reserves ensure that cheap fossil fuels will be available for decades to come; renewable-energy production is proceeding at a snail’s pace; and Congress will be incapable of confronting the challenges of climate change. In this talk, geochemist Wally Broecker will argue that we must face our carbon emergency head-on with intensive investigations into air capture and albedo modification.
Wally Broecker is considered the “grandfather of climate science" and is the recipient of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change Research, one of the world's largest science prizes. He is well-known for linking the ocean's global conveyor belt to climate changes. Broecker has made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle. He has advanced our understanding of climate change and has provided invaluable information on which to base strategies for dealing with global warming.
Many researchers and advocates argue that genetically engineered foods (GMOs) are a major contributor to rising disease rates in the U.S., especially among children. Gastrointestinal disorders, allergies, inflammatory diseases, and infertility are just some of the problems already seen in humans, pets, livestock, and lab animals that eat GMO soybeans and corn. In this talk, learn about the health risks of genetically engineered foods, how to avoid them, and where exactly your food comes from.
Jeffrey M. Smith is the author of "Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Food You’re Eating," "Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Food," and creator of the new documentary, "Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives." Smith has lectured in 30 countries and has been quoted by world leaders and hundreds of media outlets.
Co-sponsored by GMO Free Arizona, The Urban Farm, Changing Hands Bookstore, and The Institute for Responsible Technology.
Hosted in partnership with The FUSION Foundation and Shadow Rock United Church of Christ at the Shadow Rock Mountain Campus.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
6:00 p.m. doors open
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. event
Shadow Rock Mountain Campus
12861 N. 8th Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85029
(refreshments will be provided)
The sustainability movement is gaining momentum, but to keep the momentum going, it is important to prepare future sustainability leaders with a proper educational background. How does one teach the subject of sustainability?
In this talk, Mark Henderson and Micah Lande will share select projects from The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts’ InnovationSpace and College of Technology and Innovation’s GlobalResolve. These project-based programs build on real-world issues and utilize collaborative, student-centered teaching practices to provide powerful learning approaches to sustainability education. Henderson and Lande will identify strategies for instructors to successfully design and implement project-based programs and highlight educational opportunities for students.
Mark Henderson is a professor of engineering at the College of Technology and Innovation and associate dean of Barrett, The Honors College. His research focuses on computer-aided design and engineering. Micah Lande is an assistant professor of engineering and editor-in-chief emeritus of Ambidextrous Journal of Design.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Presentation: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Discussion: 1:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be provided)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Thousands of nonprofit organization and business observers go to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Why do they go? What do they achieve? Do they help with getting a deal or are they a distraction? What happens at the climate change conventions? This talk will draw on stories from the last four conventions to investigate these questions.
Robert Gibson's work focuses on mechanisms that facilitate businesses in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change. He has attended UN Framework Convention of Climate Change meetings in Copenhagen (2009), Cancun (2010), Durban (2011), and Doha (2012).
Co-sponsored by the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be provided)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
This talk will focus on shared perspectives on climate response and sustainability programs in federal agencies, local government, Fortune 500 companies, and academic institutions. Daniel Kreeger, founder of the Association of Climate Change Officers, will highlight cutting-edge programs from around the country and discuss how sustainability efforts are rapidly transforming leading organizations and improving the financial bottom line.
Kreeger has over 15 years of experience in change management, business strategies, public relations, public affairs, research, and consulting within business-to-business, government, and consumer-centric sectors. His work focuses on the economic and operational implications of environmental and healthcare issues.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be provided)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
A daunting array of new economic and demographic forces are threatening to undermine market and investment conditions during the sustainability movement. Join scientist and Green Sense radio show host Robert Colangelo and author and economic developer Mark Lautman to discuss how economic architecture and social-improvement initiatives combine to build sustainable communities.
Mr. Colangelo is recognized as a national expert on brownfields, an authoritative source on sustainable development, and an author of several books on the environment. Mr. Lautman has three decades of experience as a professional economic developer and has designed and managed four economic development programs.
Please join us in examining the flawed and inconsistent foundations of human-animal relationships through the methodologies of art practice, and ask how acknowledging and accepting “uncertainty” enables a constructive reappraisal of ecologies that does not position humans as the most significant species. Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson will discuss art projects that bring to light present-day human and animal connections.
Snæbjörnsdóttir and Wilson’s socially engaged projects explore the effects of anthropocentrism and contemporary relationships between human and non-human animals in the contexts of history, culture, and the environment. Their
research-based projects use multiple media types including installations, photography, sculpture, and audio.
The idea of environmental justice has been a central concern for a broad range of both activists and academics and has expanded substantially in the past two decades. Professor Schlosberg argues that recent extensions of the environmental justice frame move discourse into a new realm – from environmental conditions as a symptom of social injustice, to environment and a functioning natural world as the underlying conditions for social justice.
David Schlosberg's work focuses primarily on environmental political thought, environmental justice, and the theory and practice of environmental movements. He is currently researching the new sustainable materialist focus of many environmental movements on food, energy, housing, and transportation.
Co-sponsored by ASU's Institute for Humanities Research. Please RSVP here.
Today’s environmentally anxious age is dependent upon the roles of science, technology, and innovation. These are not only complex and uncertain role dynamics, but they also circulate deeply contrasting narratives about whether or not they matter and to whom, and what to do about them.
This talk will share how researchers at the Social, Technological, and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability Centre (STEPS) are thinking globally about sustainability challenges in ways that incorporate concern for equity, social justice, and the well-being of marginalized groups. Melissa Leach and Andy Stirling will illustrate a multiple, flexible pathways approach showing how people produce particular narratives that frame these roles in diverse ways, promote particular goals and values, and justify particular responses.
Melissa Leach directs the STEPS Centre, an interdisciplinary research and policy center focusing on using science and technology to reduce poverty and improve social justice. Professor Andy Stirling co-directs STEPS with Leach and serves on multiple collaboration-based advisory boards emphasizing democracy, sustainability, and equity.
Clean, green, creative, and now smart cities have all been separately identified, measured, ranked, and evaluated. Are these titles really just different ways of talking about the same type of city?
During this discussion, Kevin Stolarick will identify and compare creative, green, and smart cities and look for correlations. Which cities are creative but not smart? Green but not creative? For cities that are simultaneously creative, green, and smart, what are the underlying relationships that are driving this result?
Dubbed the “Official Statistician of the Creative Class," Stolarick combines a depth of knowledge with an appreciation of the importance of finding and sharing knowledge with others. These “pearls of wisdom" come from his comprehensive understanding of the Creative Class and the Creative Economy.
Wooden cattails on a hilltop lawn—what's wrong with this picture? Priscilla Stuckey suggests that the inability to imagine accurate eco-communities stems from the same patterns of thought that in this society, make human communities challenging as well.
Is it Western culture's famed individualism? Perhaps just the opposite—not that individuals are too highly regarded, but that they are not valued highly enough. In this talk, Stuckey will offer some thoughts on reimagining individuals in community and will read selected passages from her new book, Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature (Counterpoint, 2012).
Priscilla Stuckey holds a Ph.D. in religious studies and feminist theory from the Graduate Theological Union at the University of California, Berkeley. She uses her own experiences of encountering trees, birds, and animals to develop more hopeful cultural stories about nature, including our own nature.
Unreliable electrical infrastructures threaten global health care. Although researchers have begun to examine the impact of power failures in the U.S. on hospitals, there exists a lack of systematic research about these risks in low human development index (HDI) countries. In this talk, Mechtenberg will discuss how electrical reliability affects global health care and argue for a new energy education policy pathway for electricity innovation.
Mechtenberg earned a doctoral degree in applied physics from the University of Michigan and a master’s in educational psychology from UC Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on sustainable energy systems that optimize energy production, storage, and consumption based on cultural values and technological feasibility. Her research and teaching combine to define, manage, and potentially mitigate energy crises across the globe, with the ultimate aim of sustainable development.
Saloff-Coste is recognized in Europe, America, and Asia as a vanguard artist, global futurist, business adviser, and entrepreneur as he seeks to discover the technological, economic, social, and ecological processes related to the passage of the "Industrial Society" to the "Information Society."
From 1985 to 1987, he directed a permanent multidisciplinary workshop on societal change at France’s Ministry of Research. Since then, he has worked as a consultant in communication, strategy, and management. He is a co-founder of "New Cap Invest," a venture capital firm dedicated to promoting highly innovative companies.
Saloff-Coste's international NGO, "Design Me a Planet," creates global scenarios and develops a systematic process for implementation beginning at the regional level and sustained through global level information sharing. In this creative talk, Saloff-Coste will compel the audience to "generate intelligent change together."
This Food Day talk by Jeff Zimmerman will feature a few local farmers, a chef, an ethnobotanist, a "fast talker" and his daughter, and the "spirit of Charles Hayden." These local food entrepreneurs are building a local grain economy so we can enjoy healthy, affordable, and sustainable meals. Join us for lunch baked with local grains milled at Zimmerman's Hayden Flour Mills.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
(lunch will be provided)
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
The Army's ability to accomplish its global mission depends on secure, uninterrupted access to power, energy, water, and land. In today's complex environment and energy market, the mission's effectiveness is at risk due to dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels and a reliance on a fragile electric infrastructure.
The development of Army-wide sustainability principles coupled with investments, training, education, and facilities management can improve the Army's overall security and in turn, perform its global mission.
Richard Kidd is responsible for overall program direction, establishment of policies, development and refinement of strategies, and oversight for implementation of all programs and initiatives related to energy security and sustainability within the Army.
The National Research Council (NRC) report, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, was commissioned in order to provide an operational framework for integrating sustainability as one of the key drivers within the regulatory responsibilities of the EPA. This is a fundamental shift in priorities for the EPA, from an agency focused on risk and hazard management, to one addressing sustainability challenges.
This talk will discuss the current strategic initiatives the EPA is taking. These initiatives have used past research to inform decision-making based on three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental, and societal. A panel of experts will share how the research focused on evaluating scenarios comparing values, using story-telling approaches, and team strategies that should be utilized as best practices when involved in sustainability issues.
Moderated by Kenneth Galluppi, director, ASU's Decision Theater.
We all agree that education can be the silver bullet for millions of students around the world. We all understand that education can change the destiny of a family in just one generation. In the U.S. for example, the data shows us that the impact of education on overall earnings is five times greater than race or gender impacts. So if you are a poor black or Latino student growing up in the United States, your greatest chance to escape the cycle of poverty is education.
Yet the numbers of those students who graduate high school are dismal. The numbers for those who go to college and graduate are even worse. During this session, we are going to explore some insights to improve the odds for all students and the role technology can play in this effort.
Born and raised as a first-generation American to a single mother on welfare in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, Jaime Casap understands and appreciates the power of education in changing the destiny of a family in just one generation. His mission is to make sure that education continues to be the silver bullet as it was for him.
Biophilia, a concept popularized by E.O. Wilson, says that we have an innate need for contact with nature and the natural world. We need nature in our lives to be happy, productive, and healthy; it is not optional, but a requisite condition of urban life. In this talk, Tim Beatley will review the emerging practice of biophilic urban design and planning. He will highlight the many compelling stories of individuals and groups working hard to transform cities from gray and lifeless to green and biodiverse.
Tim Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at University of Virginia's School of Architecture. Much of Beatley’s work focuses on the subject of sustainable communities and the creative strategies by which cities can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places.
After two and half years of touring with Carbon Nation, Peter Byck has realized that liberals and conservatives in the U.S. are not polarized—there is, in fact, vast agreement that we should champion clean energy and energy efficiency. Join us for an engaging discussion on the "great convener."
Peter Byck, director of Carbon Nation, has presented his film at Boeing, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Shell, the House of Commons, U.S. Embassies in London, Berlin, and Vienna—in addition to universities across the world. He recently appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" and NPR’s "Science Friday."
Governance issues are at the heart of successful biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. This presentation will highlight the role of institutions and multi-scalar governance in two Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) conducted in Indonesian national parks on the island of Borneo.
Dr. Carr Kelman studies policy dimensions of sustainability issues such as managing tradeoffs and fostering synergies between biodiversity conservation and human development. She has studied Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Indonesian national parks, the global trade in electronic waste, and the regulation of electric utilities in the U.S.
This event is centered around the International Development and Sustainability challenge area.
The economy isn't something far away that someone else is going to fix for us—we have the power to turn the economy around. Learn how your own purchasing habits can improve the local economy, create jobs, and contribute recirculating dollars for community establishments like libraries and fire departments.
Kimber Lanning is an entrepreneur and economic specialist who works to cultivate vibrant, sustainable communities and inspire a higher quality of life throughout Arizona. Lanning is actively involved in fostering cultural diversity, economic self-reliance, regional planning, and responsible growth in the greater Phoenix area.
This event is centered around the Society and Economics of Sustainability challenge areas.
Arizona's desert cities face many unique challenges associated with planning and achieving sustainability, particularly in urban areas. The downturn in the economy coupled with environmental changes and shifts in population and resources create unparalleled obstacles for local cities. What are communities doing to improve their livability in terms of social equity, environmental responsibility, and economic impact considering the current conditions?
Rob Melnick, executive dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability, will lead Mayors Mark Mitchell, Scott Smith, and Greg Stanton in a discussion that will address the challenges and opportunities that face their respective cities.
Special thanks to our sponsor, the Mesa Arts Center.
This event is centered around the Policy and Governance in Sustainable Systems challenge area.
Global climate change threatens to undermine the conditions that allow civilization to thrive on Earth. The economy continues to sputter and economic inequity is growing. Many people sense that the systems we have long relied on are in danger of collapsing. Yet few can explain why, or know what to do about it.
In this interactive, thought-provoking presentation, systems change specialist Bob Doppelt will explain that the problems we face today are of our own making. They are the result of the greatest failure of thought in human history.
Bob Doppelt is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon. From 2002-2010, he directed Resource Innovations and the Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon. Mr. Doppelt is a regular columnist for the Register Guard and the Salem Statesman Journal newspapers in Oregon.
What is sustainability? Why does it matter? Are companies really committed to a sustainable future? How do Fortune 500 companies structure and execute sustainability strategies? How can I have a career that makes an impact? This session will be a provocative and interactive discussion that addresses these questions and many more.
Tod Arbogast oversees the development of Avon’s comprehensive long-term strategy, building on the company’s foundation of environmental progress. In this role, he manages the balance of Avon's growth strategy with goals to minimize Avon's impact on natural and human resources. His team fuels sustainable innovation, embeds sustainability into the heart of the business model, and mobilizes key constituencies to measured sustainable action.
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines wilderness as "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." Wilderness provides habitat for plants and animals. It protects watersheds, provides space for recreation, and connects us with nature. Untouched places also have economic value. Without our areas of natural open space, Arizona would lose its appeal for developers, hunters, and tourists; military installations will be less viable; and the great outdoors would be lost to our children.
Join Ian Dowdy to learn more about wilderness in Arizona and what you can do to help protect it. Dowdy will pay special attention to the Sonoran Desert Heritage conservation proposal which will affect the West Valley.
Ian Dowdy is Conservation Outreach Associate with Arizona Wilderness Coalition. Prior to his work with the Coalition, he was a municipal planner and a consultant for master-planned communities. He received a bachelor's in urban planning and a master's in business administration from ASU and is certified by the American Planning Association.
Established in 2007, the School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines and leaders to create and share knowledge, train a new generation of scholars and practitioners, and develop practical solutions to the most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges of sustainability - especially as they relate to urban areas.
5/23 - Students, faculty 'show' sustainability at open house event
5/23 - Scientists announce top 10 new species for 2013
5/31 - Artists and Writers Wanted: The Human Face of Sustainability
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