Sustainability Events

The Commons in Space Conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners on topics from the satellites and space debris increasingly congesting orbital space, mining of celestial bodies, diverse perspectives on space as a global commons, protection of dark night sky, models for space law, and more.

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Grab your mat and water bottle, and meet us at SDFC Fields! Join the College of Global Futures for a relaxing outdoor yoga session at the Sun Devil Fitness Center fields! We'll meet at 5:15 p.m. for a 45-minute class with your peers. All CGF students are welcome to register!...

Complex Adaptive Systems Science emerged four decades ago based on the recognition that complex systems in vastly different domains shared fundamental properties. This insight has triggered a productive research endeavor that is now at the core of all Global Futures related challenges

This talk, hosted by the new School...

Are you interested in pursuing a career that allows you to utilize your analytical skills to help enrich people's lives? Do you thrive on creating change through technology?

Jobs in science, technology and sustainability are fast-paced and constantly changing. Innovation is the name of the game in these industries, and being...

Angie Schmitt, long-time national editor at Streetsblog, is one of the country's best-known writers and experts on sustainable transportation. Her commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio.

The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Victims...

Do you know how to best negotiate a salary? What strategies make the most sense? When is the ideal time to ask for a raise? Join the College of Global Futures and the Office of Career and Professional Development as we tackle these tricky questions, and more!

Katie Martin has over 20 years of experience developing and evaluating creative solutions to hunger and building collaborations with local and national anti-hunger organizations. Before joining Foodshare, Katie was an Assistant Professor and Director of the Public Health program at the University of Saint Joseph. She has a Ph.D...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains, slashed tourism, and eliminated markets for fish and farmed-seafood products, exacerbating ongoing challenges and prompting diverse and often drastic reconfigurations in fisheries and seafood production.

The Fisheries and Aquaculture Commons virtual conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners on the...

Grab your mat and water bottle, and meet us at SDFC Fields! Join the College of Global Futures for a relaxing outdoor yoga session at the Sun Devil Fitness Center fields! We'll meet at 5:15 for a 45-minute class with your peers. All CGF students are welcome to register! Attendees...

What does the job market look like right now? How can you market yourself effectively after graduation? Join CGF and the Office of Career and Professional Development for a presentation on career trends in 2021.

The IASC 2021 Conference: Commoning the Anthropocene virtual conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners interested in the role that the exercise of common property systems to land use and other shared resources (commoning) will play in the Anthropocene.

Topics include: conceptualizing commons across multiple scales; commoning in...

Join environmental historian and activist Paul Hirt as he takes a look back through the history of the environmental movement.

Hirt came to ASU in 2004 but has lived in Arizona for over 30 years. In both his professional and personal life, he promotes sustainable water management, renewable energy,...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Conceptualizing the Urban Commons aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss topics that include: conceptualizing the urban commons; new forms and trends in urban communing; interdisciplinary methods to study the urban commons; urban commons and the rights to the city; and the...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Polycentric Governance aims to bring together scholars and practitioners from various sectors, disciplines, and epistemological traditions to advance our understanding of how polycentric governance works in practice and share knowledge as a diverse research community.

Friday, March 19th is the deadline for submitting...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Water Commons aims to bring together scholars and practitioners on the water commons broadly understood. Topics include climate-change impacts (flooding, storm surge, drought) involving all forms of water (ice sheets, glaciers, rivers & lakes, groundwater, clouds, effluent) and all types of water uses (irrigation,...