ASU Recognized for Net-Zero Emissions!

As a university, ASU has surpassed its goal of net-zero emissions for 2025 in 2020, six years ahead of schedule. Times Higher Education and the EPA have recognized ASU as leaders in sustainability. ASU is 1 of 2 universities in the nation to achieve this, and 1 of only 43 worldwide! Read all about it… Continue reading ASU Recognized for Net-Zero Emissions!

Boyer Lab Members Featured in Video: Peecycling: The #1 Solution

ASU students Claire Cleveland, Jenna Miller, Garr Punnett, and Grace Clark filmed and edited a sustainability documentary titled Peecycling: The #1 Solution, in which members of the Boyer Lab describe various strands of research that involve pharmaceutical removal and resource recovery from an abundant resource: urine. Transforming nutrient use from a destructive linear flow into… Continue reading Boyer Lab Members Featured in Video: Peecycling: The #1 Solution

Swette Center Benefactor Featured in Forbes Article

3/31/2017 ​In an article entitled With Sweet Earth Natural Foods, a corporate couple goes from Pepsi and Whoppers to quinoa burritos, Susan Adams interviews Brian and Kelly Swette about their contributions to sustainability.  In addition to developing a vegetarian food company, they are also major benefactors of our research Center here at the Biodesign Institute at ASU.… Continue reading Swette Center Benefactor Featured in Forbes Article

You Can’t Spell Sustainability without P

4/27/2017 by Matt Scholz With summer warmth will invariably come media coverage of massive algal blooms wreaking havoc on our waterways and much talk of phosphorus pollution. Outside of this seasonal notoriety, element 15 gets short shrift in popular culture in comparison to carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, but it is every bit as essential to… Continue reading You Can’t Spell Sustainability without P