School of Sustainability Graduate Students Launch Sustainability Journal

TEMPE, Arizona, March 11, 2010 - As graduate students in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State
University, Maren Mahoney and Zach Hughes had seen plenty of academic
journals related to sustainability. But nowhere could they find a publication
that made the complex concept of sustainability accessible to the everyday
reader.

So they started one.

"We wanted to help shape the discussion about sustainability in the
public arena - it is a concept that is hard to understand and we felt it was
important to reach an audience outside of academia," says Mahoney.

She and Hughes envisioned a publication that would inspire social change
by connecting with people and issues locally, nationally, and
internationally. The result is The Sustainability Review
(www.thesustainabilityreview.org), an online journal edited and
published entirely by School of Sustainability students.

Part scholarly journal, part popular magazine, The Sustainability Review
includes research, essays, and artwork. It is intended to engage people from
all walks of life in discussions about a broad range of sustainability
topics.

Mahoney and Hughes were among the first students in the nation's
first-ever School of Sustainability, launched in fall 2007, with a mission to
train a new generation of sustainability scholars and practitioners and
develop real-world solutions to the world's pressing environmental, economic,
and social challenges.

"The Sustainability Review will generate interest and dialogue about
sustainability across a comprehensive audience," said Charles Redman,
director of the School of Sustainability within the Global Institute of
Sustainability.

The journal's first issue includes written and artistic perspectives on
academic innovation, water conservation, waste management, renewable energy,
transportation alternatives, biodiversity, community gardening, recreation,
environmental justice, and more. Contributors include academics and
non-academics alike.

Planned as a biannual publication, The Sustainability Review will post
its next call for papers this summer. To read the first issue and find
additional information visit: www.thesustainabilityreview.org.

About the School of Sustainability in the Global Institute of
Sustainability, Arizona State University (ASU)

The Global Institute of Sustainability is the hub of ASU's sustainability
initiatives. The Institute advances research, education, and business
practices for an urbanizing world. Its School of Sustainability, the first of
its kind in the U.S., offers transdisciplinary degree programs that advance
practical solutions to environmental, economic, and social challenges.
schoolofsustainability.asu.edu or sustainability.asu.edu.

Karen Leland, Director, Communications of Global Institute of Sustainability/School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, +1-480-965-0013, karen.leland at asu.edu