The Sustainability Solutions Services provide practical, effective and affordable solutions to help organizations and communities tackle their specific sustainability challenges. The Solutions Services group listens, learns and works collaboratively with client partners to facilitate their transition to sustainability practices.The first of its kind, the Sustainability Solutions Services are an innovative fee-for-service consultancy that combines the hands-on, personal approach of other university-based extension services with the research and knowledge base of ASU’s sustainability scientists and scholars to create value for organizations.The Sustainability Solutions Services help client partners to define, analyze, and solve the economic, social and environmental sustainability challenges they face every day. The Solutions Services assemble a custom team of experts to address each client’s specific sustainability challenges.

Technical Advisor to Lindon Park Neighborhood Association through a US EPA Technical Assistance Grant. Protected the interests of a low-income neighborhood in Phoenix by providing technical services on behalf of the neighborhood association and advocating for their position in public forums. Accomplishments include preventing the construction of a wastewater discharge pipeline adjacent to an elementary school and the providing evidence to regulators to expand indoor air quality testing across affected neighborhoods.

Characterized and modeled lead and zinc transport in semi-arid acidic mine tailings in an arid environment during phytostabilization. Design and fabrication of soil micro-suction cups, instrumented soil columns and set up of soil mesocosm experiments.

Characterizing water use by the manufacturing sector in Arizona.

Patterns of rare earth element adsorption to lepidocrosite.