Collaborative action
Volunteers donated 5,000 pounds of harvested oranges to local food banks
Collaborative action involves multiple departments’ interdisciplinary efforts to advance ASU’s operational sustainability progress and integrate operational sustainability with its research, education and community missions. ASU embeds sustainability into departments’ daily activities through initiatives, personnel, programs, policies and procedures.
Successful examples of collaborative action include the following activities: Campus activities
• 23 Sustainable Staff Event planners were trained in
FY 2022, representing 18 ASU departments and offices.
• The ASU Fleet Electrification Task Force worked to
transition the university’s fleet to zero-emission vehicles by purchasing four plug-in electric vehicles.
• Coca-Cola, Sodexo, Sun Devil Athletics, University
Sustainability Practices and the Zero Waste department partnered to host two Green Games for football and volleyball. A total of 44,399 attendees were exposed to messaging about sustainability at ASU and efforts for Zero Waste games, including ticketless entry, the reusable cup program and compost and recycle bins in Sun Devil Stadium.
• Constructed 20 sustainability displays across all four
Community efforts
• ASU partnered with Arizona Public Service, Salt River
Project, Tucson Electric Power, Southwest Gas, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University to form a new interdisciplinary coalition to attain a carbon-neutral economy in Arizona. The ASU-based Center for an Arizona Carbon-Neutral Economy is housed within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory on the Tempe campus.
• The Rio Reimagined Initiative hosted an Earth Day
clean-up along the Salt River. Over 100 volunteers removed 10 tons of trash from the riverbed. The event united ASU’s University City Exchange, students and alums, employees from the city of Phoenix’s Tres Rios wetlands and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
campuses for October’s Campus Sustainability Month.
• Earth Month activities included six sustainability campus walking tours with 147 participants and 14 campus events with 960 participants. Events included a Garden Commons plants sale, Fair Trade tabling in residence halls, office compost rollout and various Green Games.
ASU paper use in recycled content FY 2022
• Hosted five U.S. Green Building Council workshops to
197 staff and students providing information on Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification to the campus community.
• Installed 13 electric vehicle charging ports. There are 110
28%
10% recycled content
53%
30% recycled content
charging ports available across ASU’s four campuses in metropolitan Phoenix.
• The ASU Starbucks Center, several student groups and
departments collaborated to reduce single-use cups on campus, saving over 21,000 cups from use.
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Sustainability Operations | FY 2022 Review
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