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Resources for Arizona Citizens and Decision-Makers

Sustainability Overview

Our prospectus, Sustainability at ASU: Toward a more sustainable world, provides an overview of ASU’s efforts to advance sustainability across the university and beyond. Understand how sustainability underlies our teaching, learning, and doing.

Sustainability Prospectus
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Sustainable Campus Operations at ASU

Arizona State University is a model for sustainability operations and practices around the country and has made significant strides in several key areas. Through four overarching sustainability goals – climate neutrality, zero solid and water waste, active engagement and principled practice – ASU takes seriously reducing consumption, maximizing efficiency and rethinking products and actions.

Sustainable Campus Operations

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Sustainability Plan

Arizona State University is taking action to discover new pathways for a thriving economic system, a healthy ecosphere, and a more just society.

Sustainability Plan

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Carbon Plan

Carbon neutrality, or a “net zero carbon footprint,” means achieving net zero carbon emissions by balancing a measured amount of carbon released with an equivalent amount of renewable energy or offsetting by planting trees that in turn could help prevent future greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon Plan

Thought Leader Series

Thought Leader Book

The series invites essay contributions from a diverse pool of sustainability’s most celebrated thinkers and problem-solvers, who offer expertise that prompts reflection, provokes the imagination and encourages action.

Thought Leader Series Book