Sustainability Series speakers discuss a range of environmental, social, and economic topics at these events, sponsored or co-sponsored by the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation.
Perspectives on Investing in Resilience
Joyce Coffee
- Founder & President, Climate Resilience Consulting
Join the City-as-Lab NSF Research Coordination Network to explore the transdisciplinarity of Food-Energy-Water nexus systems for sustainable urban futures. This event offers perspectives on investing in resilience from a foremost expert in green-infrastructure finance.
Joyce Coffee is the president of Climate Resilience Consulting, a social enterprise that works with clients...

ASU Celebrates Women's Empowerment
In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Educational Outreach and Student Services, and the ASU SDG5 Coalition are curating a series of events that showcase ASU’s partnerships advancing Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women...

Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
Katie S. Martin
- Executive Director, Foodshare Institute for Hunger Research & Solutions
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...

IASC 2021 Conference: Fisheries and Aquaculture Commons
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...

Distinguished KAITEKI Lecture: Toward a Circular Economy Systems Engineering Framework
Stratos Pistikopoulos
- Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute;
- Endowed Chair, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Circular Economy represents an economy both restorative and regenerative by design, one that aims to solve resource challenges by keeping products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value at all times.
In this inaugural Distinguished KAITEKI Lecture, Stratos Pistikopoulos will present the foundations of a Circular Economy Systems...

Frasier Global Mentorship Program: Student Presentations
Join us at this virtual event, as School of Sustainability students participating in the Frasier Global Mentorship Program share their experiences and what they learned.
The Frasier Global Mentorship Program provides an immersive, high-impact experience that fosters global perspectives and a broader context of sustainability. The program pairs teams of School...

Solve Climate by 2030: Big Ideas and Actions for Arizona
Solve Climate by 2030 is a nationwide effort to spark Earth Month conversations on the challenge of rapid decarbonization across the country. Join us for a discussion on the ambitious, yet feasible actions that will spur a just, green recovery in Arizona.
Topics and Panelists
- Green Recovery – Tucson Mayor...

IASC 2021 Conference: Commoning the Anthropocene
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...

Earth Day 2021: Reflections of an Environmentalist
Paul Hirt
- Environmental Historian
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,...

IASC 2021 Conference: Conceptualizing the Urban Commons
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...

IASC 2021 Conference: Polycentric Governance
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...

IASC 2021 Conference: Water Commons
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,...

IASC 2021 Conference: Knowledge Commons
The IASC 2021 Conference: Knowledge Commons aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to address problems defined by knowledge systems. Topics include: innovation spaces; digital resources like Wikipedia and Stack exchange; open-source software development; the future of science and education; the archival of existing knowledge; cultural commons; and...

IASC 2021 General Conference
The IASC 2021 General Conference follows upon a series of topical conference held earlier in 20210. The live-streamed conference aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers for the purpose of improving governance and management, advancing understanding, and creating sustainable solutions for commons, common-pool resources, or any other...