Naomi Oreskes has a long-standing interest in understanding the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent. For the past decade, she has primarily been interested in the problem of human-caused climate change. She has won numerous prizes, including the 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year.
Oreskes and co-author Erik Conway argue in their 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt, that some scientists with extensive political connections have run campaigns for over four decades denying well-established scientific knowledge about tobacco, acid rain, DDT, and, most importantly, climate change.
When we know something of our past, we think we know the present. Some may see the future as a continuation of past and present, but according to Sir Crispin Tickell, this outlook is ineffective. In this visionary talk, Sir Crispin will urge us to confront the issues of our day: the multiplication of our species in all its aspects; the economics of health and wealth; the future source of food and energy; adaptation to climate change; and the shortcomings of conventional wisdom. Will the Anthropocene epoch represent no more than a relatively short episode in the story of life on Earth?
A pioneer in linking environmental and climatic change to the realms of politics and business, Sir Crispin Tickell is a former diplomat, warden of Green College Oxford, Chancellor of the University of Kent, and serves as an adviser to ASU's President Michael M. Crow. He is the author of many papers and books, including "Climate Change and World Affairs" and "Mary Anning of Lyme Regis."
Welcoming remarks by:
ASU's President Michael M. Crow
Global Institute of Sustainability's new director, Gary Dirks
In this age of extreme weather events and crippling water shortages it is time for the birth of a new environmentalism. Climate change is making the world populations, particularly the poor, more vulnerable. Globally, we are failing to reduce emissions at the scale and pace needed. Countries like India are failing to deal with the challenges of pollution and environmental degradation. It is now time to learn from the environmentalism of the poor how to reinvent growth that is affordable, sustainable, and inclusive.
Sunita Narain is a writer and environmentalist who was named one of the world's 100 Public Intellectuals three times by the U.S. journal, Foreign Policy. She received the World Water Prize for her work on rainwater harvesting and policy influence for community-based water management.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Research and the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.
An accomplished public official and "new urbanist," Enrique Peñalosa developed a model for urban improvement based on the equal rights of all people to transportation, education, and public spaces. While mayor of Bogotá, his sustainability initiatives gave priority to children and public spaces, building hundreds of sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, greenways, and parks.
Since leaving office, Peñalosa has worked to promote sustainable urbanism in cities around the world, bringing about sustainable transportation solutions.
During this Wrigley lecture, Peñalosa will reflect on his decades of practice and leadership in the area of urban planning and policy and offer lessons for future equitable and sustainable city-regions.
Humans have so deeply impacted our world that the study of the evolution of societies cannot be separated from the study of environmental change. In this talk, van der Leeuw will outline the three phases of human innovation in the processing of matter, energy, and information and the ever-greater environmental actions which led to this point. Van der Leeuw will argue for the need of a societal shift to a focus on sustainability and innovation that includes awareness of consequences.
Sander van der Leeuw is the 2012 United Nations Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation. His expertise lies in the role of invention, sustainability, and innovation in societies around the world.
Captain Wayne Porter will present the first Wrigley Lecture Series of the 2012-2013 academic year. He will be discussing his piece, "A National Strategic Narrative," co-authored with Colonel Mark Mykleby. The narrative argues for a need of a sustainability context when protecting our nation's prosperity and security. It is now time to move the nation from a Cold War strategy of containment to a strategy of sustainability designed to address our enduring interests in a dynamic environment.
Captain Porter has served operational tours in England, Japan, Italy, the Balkans, and Bahrain. His personal awards include the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Defense Superior Service Medal, three Legions of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Meritorious Service Medal, the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, and the Vice Admiral Rufus B. Taylor Award for Professional Excellence in Intelligence for his work in southern Serbia.
Wagner is the author of But Will the Planet Notice? How Smart Economics Can Save the World. In this talk, Gernot Wagner will argue that only economists—not recyclers—can stop global warming.
He serves as an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, teaches at Columbia University, and he graduated from Harvard and Stanford. He doesn't eat meat, doesn't drive, and knows full well the futility of his personal choices.
This event is co-sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business.
William McDonough has been a leader in sustainable development since the 1970s. Trained as an architect, McDonough's interests and influence range widely, and he works at scales from the global to the molecular. He has written and lectured extensively on his design philosophy and practice; 20 years ago, he wrote The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability, and 10 years ago, he and Dr. Michael Braungart co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Both are considered seminal texts of the sustainability movement.
McDonough served as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture; he is also a Visiting Professor at the same university's Darden School of Business and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He is a member of the board of trustees of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability.
In this Wrigley Lecture, McDonough will discuss his co-authored book, Cradle to Cradle, which offers practical steps for innovating within today's economic environment. Part social history, part green-business primer, part design manual, he argues that an industrial system that “takes, makes, and wastes” can become a creator of goods and services that generate ecological, social, and economic value.
Sustainability is often described as the three "E"s—ecology, economics, and equity. Modern, technological societies must face the challenges of equity in contemporary life. Environmental justice is an American-based movement challenging disparities in risk-exposure and access to benefits. Environmental justice and sustainability reflect a deep division along race and class lines. This talk will explore the need for collaboration and repurposing in both movements.
Morris Collin, who has taught law since 1984, came to Willamette after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured faculty member of the University of Oregon School of Law. One of her latest publications is "Restoration and Redemption" in Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, a collection of testimonies by visionaries including Michael M. Crow, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Barack Obama.
Join us as Professor Sesno explores the deepening skepticism around climate science and the new roles that universities, media, and the concerned public must play if we are to move from stalemate to solutions.
A former anchor, White House correspondent, and interview host with CNN, Sesno is also a nationally renowned moderator, engaging some of the world's leading personalities, from five American presidents, to Yasser Arafat, Margret Thatcher, and Walter Cronkite. He is also the host and creator of Planet Forward, an innovative web-television initiative as seen on PBS.
William Cronon's work seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us. He is the author of several prize-winning books, including: Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England; Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West; and the soon-to-be published Saving Nature in Time: The Environmental Past and the Human Future.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
(reception to follow)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101
How do very complex systems—natural, human, built, technological—interact under rapidly changing conditions? Join us for a free-wheeling conversation between author Andy Revkin and ASU Sustainability Scientist Brad Allenby, as they discuss how we can build social, economic, and environmental sustainability in a highly unpredictable, contingent world.
One of America’s most honored science writers, Revkin has been reporting in print and on Dot Earth for The New York Times since 1995. He has spent a quarter century writing on the environment, covering subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon and the troubled relationship of climate science and politics. In his blog, Dot Earth, Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits.
What is the future of biodiversity and what steps can we take to preserve it? Leading botanist and conservationist Peter Raven served as president of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor of Botany at Washington University, St. Louis, for 39 years. Analyzing estimates of extinction rates and the major factors leading to extinction, he will discuss a world faced with many choices of central importance for our future, emphasizing the role of global climate change.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
(reception to follow)
Coor Hall, Room 170
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Our country is struggling in the face of an economic recession and ecological crisis. We need nine million new jobs in the U.S., and they must be jobs that can support families and do no harm to the environment. America needs her best minds generating smart and innovative ideas to create more jobs.
Named by Time as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2009, Van Jones is a globally recognized pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy. He co-founded three successful nonprofit organizations, is the best-selling author of The Green-Collar Economy, and served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009.
Reserved seating available for our handicapped guests or those needing assistance. Contact: laurenkuby@asu.edu.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Student Services Lawn and Amphitheater
Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
(Parking at Apache Structure)
As head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Rosenzweig has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report, Observed Changes Chapter; the IPCC assesses the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
Rosenzweig co-chairs the New York City Panel on Climate Change—a body of experts convened by the Mayor to advise the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructure. Her research involves the development of interdisciplinary methods to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Old Main, Carson Ballroom
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Dr. Frances Westley joined the University of Waterloo in July of 2007 as Chair of Social Innovation Generation, a national initiative designed to build capacity for social innovation in Canada. She is published widely in the areas of building resilience of socioecological systems, knowledge generation, managing uncertainty and change, and visionary leadership. Her books include Experiments in Consilience,which focused on the dynamics of collaboration in managing ecological and conservation challenges, and Getting to Maybe, which addresses the interrelationship of individual and system dynamics in social innovation and transformation.
Monday, February 8, 2010
(reception to follow)
Old Main, Carson Ballroom
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
How do we live on a finite planet and yet feed and clothe nine billion people by 2050? Dr. Jason Clay will explore the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF's) thinking about this issue as well as his work in supply-chain management with individual companies and entire sectors. In his role at the WWF, Clay works to transform leading private-sector companies and entire industries by developing credible global standards and measurably improving performance against them.
The author of over 250 articles and 15 books, Clay studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics before receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology and international agriculture from Cornell in 1979.
Over the course of his career, he has run a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked in the USDA, and spent over 25 years working with human-rights and environmental organizations. In 1988, Clay invented Rainforest Marketing, one of the first fair-trade ecolabels in the US.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Old Main, Carson Ballroom
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
John Hofmeister is a business leader who has participated in the inner workings of multiple industries for over 35 years. He retired as president of Shell Oil Company in 2008 to found and head the nationwide nonprofit group, Citizens for Affordable Energy. This public policy education firm promotes sound energy security solutions for the nation, including a range of affordable energy supplies, efficiency improvements, essential infrastructure, sustainable environmental policies, and public education on energy issues. His global corporate experiences across a wide range of both energy-consuming and energy-producing companies have led him to consider environmental security in the 21st century differently from mainstream practice.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
(reception to follow)
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 101
Craig Cogut has over 27 years of experience in private equity investing, financial restructuring, and legal advisory service. In 1995, he founded Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity-fund manager that provides creative capital and business solutions to middle-market companies across a variety of industries, with emphasis on businesses adopting sustainable business practices. In 2008, he was honored by the New York League of Conservation Voters for his efforts in support of sustainable businesses.
Monday, November 9, 2009
(reception to follow)
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 101
San Francisco has become one of the most innovative cities in the world in implementing new comprehensive approaches to urban sustainability. From its groundbreaking zero waste strategies such as the residential compost and green waste recycling program, to its energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, the City has been a leader in designing and implementing programs that work. The City's newest project, EcoMap, will allow citizens to track their progress toward sustainability goals on a zip code by zip code basis. Jared Blumenfeld, Director of San Francisco's Environment Department, will talk about the successes and challenges the City has experienced in implementing urban sustainability programs and the many partnerships the City has developed that help it to reach its sustainability goals.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 101
Through the Tyndall Centre Cities Research Programme, researchers from seven universities and high profile stakeholders have developed an Urban Integrated Assessment Facility (UIAF). This city-scale assessment tool simulates the effects of long term changes in urban areas and can be used to test strategies for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. In this talk, Tyndall Centre Deputy Director Jim Hall explains the various components of the UIAF and how they have been integrated to answer questions of policy relevance to stakeholders in London.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481
In this talk, Professor Hoffman will discuss the business implications of climate change: why and how companies should be paying attention to the issue. In a nutshell, climate change should be regarded as a market shift, one that will create winners and losers. In fact, business executives can be completely agnostic on the science of the issue and still see it as one of business concern. Professor Hoffman will present the results of several studies that look into the strategies companies are using to address this issue and attempt to integrate it into their business strategy.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 101
It is crucial that in uncertain economic times, we reiterate our commitment to sustainable approaches to all aspects of our lives. Broadly conceived, a sustainable culture for a college or university involves infrastructure, community, and learning. The infrastructure challenge involves (1) energy, (2) food, and (3) materials. The community challenge involves (4) governance, (5) investment, and (6) wellness. The learning challenge embodies (7) curriculum, (8) aesthetics, and (9) interpretation. The purpose of these guidelines is to open a discussion regarding the whole system of a sustainable culture.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481
The Unity House is the Presidential Residence at Unity College. It was built as part of the commitment by the College to invest in the future they are trying to educate toward. Mitch and Cindy Thomashow were eager to build a carbon-neutral, LEED platinum home, and even more eager to live in one. This project was the realization of personal philosophy and vision. The 1,900-square-foot house has solar panels on its roof and is designed for a net-zero lifestyle—sometimes it draws power from the electric grid, but what it draws is balanced by power it contributes to the grid at other times.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481
Biomimicry is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested ideas. The goal is to create products, processes, companies and policies that are well adapted to life on earth over the long haul. Biomimics around the world are learning to adhere like a gecko, cool buildings like a termite, make fiber optics like a sea sponge, repel microbes (without antibiotics) like a kelp, and run a business like a redwood forest. In the process, they're creating new ways of living. Janine Benyus, author of the paradigmshifting Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, will discuss how bio-inspired innovation could solve "grand challenges" while funding the conservation of life's genius.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Memorial Union, Arizona Room
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Rivers and streams are increasingly stressed by human activity, which tends to homogenize flows, simplify habitats, and reduce diversity. As recognition of these impacts has increased, there has been a parallel increase in restoring streams, helping them to recover and be more resilient in the face of future stressors. Margaret Palmer explores the relationship between the science of restoration ecology and the practice of ecological restoration.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Life Sciences E-Wing Tower (LSE), Room 104
Helen Ingram is a Research Fellow at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Author of 13 books and over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, Professor Ingram has made scholarly contributions to water resources policy, environmental policy, science and public policy as well as public policy theory. She holds a B.A. in government from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 101
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
In preparation for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, our next President will need to have the building blocks of a US climate change foreign policy in place shortly after inauguration. Daniel Bodansky's talk proposes 10 central foreign policy precepts that address the need for domestic action and buy-in, broad international participation, a flexible architecture, and a multifaceted strategy pursuing progress in a variety of forums. These precepts do not answer every question of climate change policy—many difficult issues remain. But they represent a starting point for developing a successful, bipartisan international climate policy.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
College of Law, Armstrong Hall (Great Hall)
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
The quest for environmental sustainability depends on accurate diagnoses and fitting prescriptions. But there is no consensus as to the roots of environmental problems or how to respond. Some claim the problems and solutions are largely technological, others say they are largely cultural, and the contending parties rarely meet. This presentation examines the diagnoses and prescriptions typically offered while building an argument that we cannot hope to address our environmental predicaments without taboo-free, interdisciplinary inquiry and instruction, and that we have a long way to go in this regard.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
What might happen to the Earth if humans vanished? How would the rest of nature respond if it were suddenly relieved of the relentless pressures we heap on it? How soon would, or could, the climate return to where it was before we fired up all our engines? Could nature ever obliterate all our traces? The World Without Us, Alan Weisman's phenomenal New York Times bestseller, shows us humanity's true impact on the environment in a wholly original way, and challenges each of us to re-imagine our planet—and our place within it.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Murdock Hall, Room 101
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
China is now the largest producer of coal, coke, and steel in the world. Polenske will trace the supply chains for these important commodities and examine factors that are affecting their prices and use. In addition, she will examine the causes of the recent climb in energy intensity (energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product) in China, which declined by a significant 67% from 1978 to 2000.
Friday, October 24, 2008
College of Design North (CDN), Room 60
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Energy debates in Washington are disquieting to the careful observer. Economic myths replace science as the basis of decision making. The right believes that governmental controls disrupt energy markets while the left warns that special interests are aiming to thwart the national interest. Neither simplification stands up to economic analysis, baffling the average citizen. Yet we are all searching for solutions that lead us towards energy independence.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Singer specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues mostly from a preference utilitarian perspective. Dr. Singer supports and is actively involved in several humanitarian organizations worldwide, including Oxfam, an organization that works directly with local grass roots organizations in developing countries, and supervises the way its money is used to prevent corruption and waste. He is also the President of Animals Rights International and Chair in the Board of Directors of The Great Ape Project.
Singer has been called "the world's most influential living philosopher," by The New Yorker and Time Magazine listed him in "The Time 100," their annual listing of the world's 100 most influential people.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Evelyn Smith Music Theatre
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Drawing on the ideas from his groundbreaking new book, Tim Flannery presents a straightforward and powerful exploration of the connection between climate change, global warming, and human activity. He has a gift for making complex science understandable for a lay audience, through a deft use of imagery, analogy and common sense. But Flannery does not just tell his audience what is happening to our planet. He very clearly lays out a game plan for halting current warming trends and beginning the long, but entirely achievable project of reversing the damage we have done. His goal is to mobilize his listener—both personally and politically—to recognize that we are all "weather makers" and that the only choice, both logically and ethically, is to begin to address this problem before it's too late.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Neeb Hall
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Jeff Biggers will discuss Mitraniketan, a legendary village revitalization project in Kerala that turned one
of the most deforested, overpopulated, and depressed villages in India into a model of sustainable living
and ecological restoration, following the visionary ideas of adivasi forest communities and traditions of
Gandhi, Tagore, the Danish folk school, and TVA chair and Antioch President Arthur Morgan.
Jeff Biggers work has taken him acrosss the US, Europe, India, and Mexico. His award-winning stories have appeared on NPR, PRI, and in scores of travel, literary and music magazines, and national and foreign newspapers. He is the author of In the Sierra Madre and The United States of Appalachia.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Global Institute of Sustainability
Tempe Center, Room 158
The electric utility industry has gone through enormous changes in recent decades, moving from structure dominated by treatment as a state-regulated "natural monopoly" from the 1920s to the 1990s in the United States to a partially deregulated industry since the late 1990s. The shift from the Natural Monopoly Era to the Deregulation Era left a lasting mark on the electric utility regulatory structure. But an equally important shift has been occurring over the past five years in another area of regulatory policy: the climate change policy debate has shifted from "if" we should limit greenhouse gas emissions to "when" and "how" we will limit these emissions.
This presentation explores the implications of the Climate Change Era for electricity regulation, industry structure, generation technology choice, and environmental regulation. In short, it examines how the Greening of the Grid can be achieved through proper incentives and regulation.
Monday, February 4, 2008
College of Design North, Room 60
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Biodiversity is being lost at unprecedented rates due to human activities. And yet the understanding of the oftentimes complex ways in which human well-being depends on the world's biological resources has never been more advanced. Our capacity to identify new species, and understand how they are related to one another, is growing, as is our understanding of the ecological and social conditions required for successful conservation. Whether our understanding and capacity will grow fast enough to prevent a global extinction crisis remains an open question. In this joint lecture, Peter Crane and Thomas Lovejoy look at what we know about species and their contributions to human well being today, what we might know in the future, and how the loss of species might affect the lives of people.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Life Sciences E, Room 104
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Jane Lubchenco is an environmental scientist and marine ecologist engaged in teaching, research, synthesis, and communication of scientific knowledge.Her scientific contributions in ecology are widely recognized. Eight of her publications are "Science Citation Classics;" she is one of the "most highly cited" ecologists in the world. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society, and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
Lubchenco served on the Pew Oceans Commission and now the Joint Oceans Commission Initiative. She is a Director or Trustee of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, SeaWeb and Environmental Defense, Trustee Emerita of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and a former Trustee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics and the World Resources Institute.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Life Sciences E, Room 104
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
David Orr is the recipient of a Bioneers Award, a National Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation, and a Lyndhurst Prize by the Lyndhurst Foundation He was named "an Environmental Hero for 2004" by Interiors & Sources Magazine. He holds three honorary doctorates and has been a distinguished scholar in residence at the University of Washington, Ball State University, and Westminster College.
He is also the contributing editor of Conservation Biology and has served as a Trustee of the Educational Foundation of America, the Compton Foundation, and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. He serves on the Boards of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Center for Ecoliteracy, and the Center for Respect of Life and Environment. He is also an advisor and consultant to the Trust for Public Land and the National Parks Advisory Committee. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Neeb Hall
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Paris has fashion. New York has its financial district. Las Vegas has gambling. And, Portland has....sustainability.
While many cities are just beginning to embrace the concept of sustainability, Portland has been hard at work for 30 years. The city's setting, among some of the most stunning natural beauty in the US, has instilled in Portland residents a deep-seated desire to protect natural resources and enable the built and natural environments to prosper and thrive together. In 1993, Portland became the first city in the US to adopt a local-action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout all sectors of the community. The plan includes a goal of a 10% reduction in CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2010. The city has closely monitored results of this plan and has tracked a reduction in per capita carbon dioxide emissions of 14% below 1990 levels. Most of the actions taken to reduce emissions were not done to impact global warming, but to cut costs, reduce traffic congestion, save money for homeowners, improve air quality and overall livability by developing a more vibrant, walkable city.
Many communities throughout the world are taking similar actions to Portland. These cities understand the value of a healthy environment on the overall vitality of a community and the economic advantages in terms of jobs and wealth creation. Portland businesses are now selling sustainable technologies, products and development services to the rest of the world. What started as an environmental movement has become a centerpiece of Portland's economic-development strategy
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tempe Center, Room 158
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
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.
5/14 - Student connects art, sustainability through experiential learning
5/13 - Scientists use crowd-sourcing to help map global CO2 emissions
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