Environment and Sustainability Portal

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Students on the Edge of Campus Sustainability

UA students play a leading role in transforming the UA campus into a learning laboratory of sustainable technologies.

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Saving a Place for Environmental Water in Arizona

Current plans for water use in Arizona include the needs of agriculture, industry, cities and towns. But riparian areas and aquatic ecosystems are not in the plan. Until now.

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Then and Now. UA Campus is Green.

Since 1891 when Old Main was built with deep overhangs and verandas to shade the building, constructed with local brick and wood and sunk into the earth to stabilize the temperatures, the UA has led the way to sustainability.

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Events

Ice Age Arizona: Preserving the Naco Mammoth

Thu., April 1, 2010 - Fri., October 15, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit

Gregory Euclide: "Real, Natural, and Unsustainable"

Fri., August 27, 2010 - Thu., November 11, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit

Tree Ring Talks

Wed., September 8, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Talk

Hydrology & Water Resources Seminar Series

Wed., September 8, 2010
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Talk

Bat Night 2010

Sat., September 11, 2010
5:30 PM
Community Event

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Environment in the News

Solar Zone Could Light Tucson's Way to Global Solar Leadership

September 3, 2010 | KOLD-TV

Tucson Electric Power Co. is joining forces with the UA to determine which solar energy technologies give the most bang for the buck. The new Solar Zone at the UA Tech Park will aid in this quest by hosting a variety of solar technologies that...

Benjamin M. Herman Awarded NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal

September 2, 2010 | NASA

Benjamin M. Herman, professor emeritus in the department of atmospheric sciences, has been awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest honor that the agency confers on a non-government individual. He received the award...

Hidden Habitat: In Tucson, the importance of urban ecology catches on

September 2, 2010 | Tucson Weekly

Until recently, when people thought about biodiversity along midtown's Arroyo Chico, they might have pictured neighborhood kids on mountain bikes, or bedraggled souls in homeless camps. They might want to think again. Today, from Kino...

UA-Led Group Awarded $9.9M to Develop ‘Super Rice’

September 1, 2010 | UANews

Scientists seek to develop a rice strain that is better capable of withstanding drought and poorer soils and produces higher yields than current forms of domesticated rice.

Law Professor Launches Environment, Globalization Website

August 31, 2010 | UANews

EcoLiterateLaw is a new website that provides information about issues related to the environment, technology, population growth and access to food and water, among other issues.