ASU and Grist.org Team Up for Environmental Ed

Some things just go together so well. Margaritas and Mexican food. Wes Anderson and Anjelica Houston. Raymond Carver and short stories. Now a new partnership between Arizona State University and Grist.org will provide the school’s students and faculty with e-mail newsletters addressing sustainability and living green.

MarketWatch reports:

In the first collaboration of its kind, Arizona State University (ASU) and Grist.org the country's leading source of online environmental news and information, today announced an agreement to send all of ASU's 60,000+ students and many faculty and staff a biweekly e-mail with news, commentary, and advice about sustainability issues.

Launching September 10, 2008, the e-mail newsletter will include reporting on national environmental and sustainability news related to the university and throughout the Southwest. The agreement marks the first time a major public university has committed to regularly sharing environmental news with its students.

"Sustainability is a concept with as much transformative potential as justice, liberty, and equality, and ASU intends to foster it both in our academic institutions and broadly across business, industry, and government," said Arizona State University President Michael Crow. "By teaming up with the environmental news experts at Grist, ASU will provide a steady flow of ideas and information that bring sustainability issues into practical focus for all members of our campus community."

Now all the ASU students need are some biodegradable cups to go with those Margaritas, and they’ll be all set.