Institute puts University on 'Green' Path
ASUNews
5/13/08
The new home of the Global Institute of Sustainability is one of the most eco-friendly buildings on ASU’s Tempe campus. Equally important, it is also a pleasant environment.

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Sustainability Energy Fellowship:
Five ASU Students Chosen to Explore Sustainable Energy
Global Institute of Sustainability
5/5/08
The Sustainable Energy Fellowship has announced its 2008 cohort of student Fellows. The students, selected from a highly competitive pool from around the country, will begin the year-long fellowship process at a intensive week-long program to explore the technologies, policies, and economics of sustainable energy.

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Demographer Chooses Path at Crossroads of Climate, Growth
ASUNews
4/30/08
Patricia Gober understands better than most that major shifts, in a climate or a career, are periods rife with uncertainty. The professor and former chair of ASU’s department of geography was at the top of her game as a demographer and urban geographer when, a decade ago, she struck out to explore new intellectual terrain.

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Parks and Preserve Initiative
The Arizona Republic: Live Talk
4/30/08
Online discussion of Phoenix parks and preserve initiative with guest, Jim Holway, Professor of Practice at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

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The Valley Needs Great Places
The Arizona Republic: Op Ed
4/27/08
Millennium Park and the Lakefront in Chicago. Balboa Park and the beach in San Diego. Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. Stanley Park in Vancouver. Central Park in New York. Great cities have great parks and public spaces. What are our great places?

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Wind Turbines to Power Computers
The Arizona Republic
4/04/2008
People look up and ask questions like, "What in the world?" or "Is that building gonna' take off?" or "Whose idea are those things?"

Those passersby are gawking at wind turbines on the roof of Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability building on the Tempe campus. Wind turns the turbines' propellers and produces enough electricity, per turbine, to power about six computers over 24 hours.

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School of Sustainability Featured on NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
3/24/2008
NBC visited Arizona State University in February 2008 to explore in depth the nation's first School of Sustainability. Their report aired nationally March 24, 2008, on NBC Nightly News. Interviews with students, professors, and administrators shed light on challenges facing this generation of students, opportunities that await graduates, and how ASU's School of Sustainability prepares students for the future.

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State Seeks to Focus on 'Green' Businesses
East Valley Tribune
3/2/2008
Arizona's economy once rested on the foundation of the five C's - copper, cotton, cattle, citrus and climate. Then came the sixth C - construction and other industries that bolstered employment such as semiconductors and aerospace. More recently, economic developers have been seeking to diversify Arizona's economy by promoting new economy stalwarts such as bioscience and information technology.

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Melnick's Appointment Boosts University's Sustainability Efforts
ASU Insight
2/15/2008
Sustainability efforts at ASU have grown significantly in the nearly three years since the university’s president, Michael Crow, made it a priority. Now the institutions that embody sustainability, such as the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) and the School of Sustainability, are getting a boost organizationally with the appointment of Rob Melnick as executive director and chief operating officer of GIOS.

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Special on the Ramifications of the Urban Transformation
Science Magazine
2/8/2008
"News articles offer an on-the-ground look at how cities are tackling specific problems from poverty and sanitation to traffic jams. Reviews and Perspectives examine how cities take shape and the impacts of urbanization on the environment, human health, economic growth, and the demographics of the developing world."
ScienceMag.com

Be sure to check out the video presentation including GIOS researcher Nancy Grimm.

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