CSPO News
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High-Energy Innovation – A Climate Pragmatism Project
New energy innovation report highlights central role of emerging economies
The global landscape for clean energy innovation has never been more fertile. A new report coming from a partnership of ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and The Breakthrough Institute states that in order to supply the global public of clean, cheap energy, governments must strengthen international collaborative efforts. High-Energy Innovation is the second of three reports in the Climate Pragmatism project.
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Science should keep out of partisan politics
Worldview column in Nature by Dan Sarewitz
The Republican urge to cut funding is not necessarily anti-science, and the research community ought not to pick political sides, says Daniel Sarewitz.
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Featured article in Environmental Science & Technology
Illustrating Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment for Emerging Photovoltaic Technologies
CSPO personnel Ben Wender, Rider Foley, Jathan Sadowski and David Guston are among the co-authors of an article featured in Environmental Science & Technology journal that introduces a novel framework for anticipatory life cycle assessment (LCA).
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Advancing Research on Climate Resilience
((Focus)) on water and energy infrastructure around climate change.
CSPO continues to be at the cutting edge of worldwide efforts to understand and enhance the resilience of technological infrastructures to climate change.
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Globalization and Discontent
An article by Clark Miller published in Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
The concept of social license to operate was forged in the crucible between globalization—which has radically decentralized the ability of organizations to operate wherever they choose—and the rise of oppositional social movements, newly empowered to confront global actors infringing on their communities.
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Informing NASA’s Asteroid Initiative
A Citizen Forum
In its history, the Earth has been repeatedly struck by asteroids, large chunks of rock from space that can cause considerable damage in a collision. Can we—or should we—try to protect Earth from potentially hazardous impacts?
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Sonoran SciComm Workshop for Sustainability
Erik Fisher was the music leader for a Sonoran Science Communication workshop, which Tom Seager organized. The participants learned and recorded a song Fisher wrote for the occasion entitled “Desert Rain.“
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The “Digital Native,” a Profitable Myth
Are there actual “digital natives” or is the idea really a myth?
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Adaptive Pathways to Climate Change in Nepal
intro video
View the first in a video series depicting some initial findings in the Adaptive Pathways to Climate Change in Nepal project.