ASU Team Among Finalists for Sustainable Innovation Summit

October 30, 2008

The ASU Sun team, composed of MBA students from the W.P. Carey School of Business and PhD candidates from the School of Sustainability, has been chosen as one of the 10 finalists from a total of 138 teams that entered the Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Sustainable Innovation Summit Challenge. Sun team members include Kushal Chawda and Andrew Harbut from the School of Business and Laurence Rosenberg and Wayne Porter from the School of Sustainability.

The Summit’s mission is “To foster learning environments that enable creation of sustainable (economic, social, and environmental) value through innovative solutions to real-world business challenges.”

The Sun team members, along with the other finalists, will present their innovation challenge responses during the Challenge’s Final Round to be held November 13-15, 2008 at the Thunderbird School campus in Glendale, Arizona. For more information go to http://www.thunderbird.edu/sites/tsis/index.htm.

Decision Center for a Desert City Wins International Prize

October 28, 2008

The Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) has been tapped as one of a handful of institutions worldwide to receive this year’s Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. DCDC will split the $133,000 (SR 500,000) award with one other institution.
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Research Engineer Makes a Big Idea Bigger

October 22, 2008

By Michelle Schwartz
Communications and Marketing Coordinator
Global Institute of Sustainability

It’s a bright idea.  Monitor a building’s energy use, put the information under the noses of the building’s occupants, and use it to persuade them to reduce their energy consumption. Brilliant!

ASU research engineer Joby Carlson thought so, too. But the lab manager for ASU’s National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations wanted to take it one step further.  Or really several steps.  He wanted to incorporate water and waste with energy data, he wanted to compare multiple buildings on campus, and he wanted to teach people exactly how they could reduce their resource use.  Oh, and he wanted to use ASU talent to put it all into a web-based tool that anyone could understand. Read more »

World’s Most Advanced Solar Testing and Certification Facility Created for Global Market by Private and Public Solar Labs

October 13, 2008

New Global-Reach State-of-the-Art Venture to be Launched with International Invitation-Only Events Featuring Company, Government, and Solar Industry Dignitaries — Stay Tuned for Details

PHOENIX/TEMPE, Ariz.; NEWTOWN, Conn.; YOKOHAMA, Japan; COLOGNE, Germany; SHANGHAI, China – TUV Rheinland Group has joined forces with Arizona State University (ASU) to create TUV Rheinland PTL, LLC, the most comprehensive, sophisticated, state-of-the-art facility for testing and certification of solar energy equipment in the world.
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Young Students Develop Bright Ideas through STEM Initiative

October 2, 2008

The program allows them to work with the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability to investigate how to mitigate the affects of urban heat islands and the ASU Mars Education Program to build a habitat for humans on Mars.

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