Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Instructor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
• Past President, Alumni Board, School of Sustainability
• Sustainability Manager, Pierce Energy Planning

Biography

Auriane Koster (PhD 2013), is a sustainability manager for Pierce Energy Planning (PEP). PEP provides complete energy conservation services to public and private sector companies throughout the United States empowering them to create a culture that embraces the principles of conservation and supporting them in saving millions of dollars. Auriane primarily works with school districts on implementing sustainability into their curriculum, campuses, and communities. She is also an Adjunct Professor for the School of Sustainability and the President for the School of Sustainability Alumni Chapter. Previously, Auriane was a Lecturer for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College teaching the Sustainability Science for Teachers course developed by Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell’s team. Auriane completed her PhD in 2013 from Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability.

Her PhD research analyzed how governance contributes to energy transitions and successful renewable-energy implementation at the national scale in an international context. Her research can be applied to understand all types of transitions, from the narrower energy transitions, to the broader sustainability transitions. While in graduate school, as a Sustainability Science for Sustainable Schools (NSF GK-12) fellow from 2010-2012, a program which won the ASU 2013 President’s Award for Sustainability and the 2012 Valley Forward Award of Merit for Environmental Excellence, she helped implement sustainability into the curriculum, campus, and community of Phoenix valley high schools. Auriane has become heavily involved in sustainability initiatives from the local to the national scale. She is a member of the Arizona State University Sustainability Design Advisory Committee and the Arizona US Green Building Council (USBGC) Green Schools Committee. She is also the co-Chair for the Arizona Association for Environmental Education’s Environmental Literacy Plan Working Group. 

Education

• PhD, Sustainability, Arizona State University, 2013
• BS, Environmental Science and Management, University of Rhode Island, 2008
• BS, Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island, 2008

Expertise

• recreation
• culture
• transportation
• human values
• indigeneity, the arts and sciences
• multicultural perspectives
• agriculture
• food policy
• conservation policy
• poverty
• land use change
• solar energy systems
• Quality Education
• Clean Water and Sanitation
• Affordable and Clean Energy
• Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• Sustainable Cities and Communities
• Responsible Consumption and Production
• Climate Action
• Partnerships for the Goals
• educational development
• energy economics
• climate change and adaptation
• energy conservation
• renewable energy
• environmental history
• human dimensions of science and technology
• international development
• policy and governance
• energy policy
• citizen engagement
• decision making
• learner-based teaching
• communities
• economic anthropology
• green business practices
• green marketing
• urban development
• architecture
• energy efficiency technologies
• green roofs