Programs
- Agrarian Landscapes in Transition
- AHIS (Arizona Hydrological Information System)
- Arizona Water Institute
- CAP LTER (Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER)
- Decision Center for a Desert City
- Decision Theater
- Ecology Explorers
- Greater Phoenix 2100
- Integrated Analysis of Robustness in Dynamic Socioecological Systems
- IGERT in Urban Ecology
- Legacies on the Landscape
- Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American SW and N Mexico
- Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics
- National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy
- 100 Cities Project
- Service at Salado
- SEINet (Southwest Environmental Information Network)
- Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research & Policy
- Sustainability Partnership
- UGEC (Urbanization and Global Environmental Change)
You could say that I’m an engineer by birth. I was literally raised to be an engineer so that I could help my dad automate our coffee plantation in India.
Now that triple-digit temperatures have returned to the Valley, it is time to consider once again how to avoid health problems that can occur because of prolonged exposure to extreme heat.
These days, it seems that everyone is striving to “live green.” With so many options, it may be hard to know where to begin. You can make big changes, like driving a hybrid vehicle or installing solar panels on your home, but you can also start with simple changes, like refilling your own water bottle or using cloth bags at the grocery store.
Last month, four undergraduate students from ASU traveled to the Wal-Mart home office in Bentonville, Ark., to compete in the “Better Living Business Plan Challenge.” The sustainability competition was created to provide students from around the world with an opportunity to invent sustainable products or business solutions and present them to a panel of Wal-Mart executives, government officials, suppliers and environmental organizations. In addition to gaining an audience with some of the top business and sustainability leaders in the U.S., the winning school was to receive $20,000.
I have a good friend whom I call Margaret the Condo Gardner. Her garden is quite the contrast from mine, but she will tell you that it is every bit as gratifying.