The holidays can create a mass amount of waste due to consumption and gift-giving, yet there are ways to make sustainable changes. One way can be shopping locally at thrift stores like Antique Sugar, a vintage store located in downtown Phoenix.

ASU’s sustainability short-film documentary class creates a partnership between sustainability and journalism students who learn to tell an important story in five minutes or less.

Lake Mead and the Colorado Basin are functioning on a Tier 1 water shortage for the first time. In 2022, Arizona is set to receive a drop in water allocation lowering the amount of clean water available to Arizona residents.

With the stressful holiday season fastly approaching consider buying small and sustainable this year. Here are some businesses that have put sustainability initiatives at the forefront.

Studies show that phoenix’s population growth over the past decade could be contributing to the urban heat island effect, making the city hotter.

Arizona farmers are set to face water hardships in 2022 due to Tier 1 shortage for Colorado River operations

Hawaii’s State Legislature was the first in the country to declare a climate emergency in April 2021. The declaration includes a commitment for the legislature to work in tandem with climate relief organizations, creating policies that will make Hawaii's energy grid both fully decarbonized and based on renewable energy by the year 2045.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been a thorn in the side of activists fighting for the passage of President Biden's complete Build Back Better plan. She has slowed down negotiations and refused to meet with social policy and climate groups. Local activists took the next step flying over 2000 miles to have their voices heard.

The city of Phoenix is going to great lengths to become the most sustainable desert city on the planet. Is it possible that Phoenix’s programs will lead the city in a new climate-focused direction?

Local sustainable businesses Voyce Threads, Bralessly, and Healing Seams were selling items at the Arizona Sustainable Apparel Association’s first fashion pop-up shop since the onset of COVID-19.

ASU’s Campus Student Sustainability Initiatives club promotes their monthly Really Really Free Market event in Tempe and other successes.

The results from the Cool Pavement study showed that the pavement lowered city temperatures and has the potential to decrease energy consumption in Phoenix creating a more sustainable environment for the fifth-largest city in the country.