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Zach Yentzer, host of Tipping Point and executive director of Tucson Young Professionals, is proud to showcase the university’s space-related endeavors through a series of conversations, where he coined Tucson as the “Space City of the Southwest”, alongside faculty and staff.

As a direct result of surveys detecting methane emissions from oil and gas, waste, and agricultural sites using innovative remote-sensing technology, 44 individual California facilities voluntarily took corrective actions between 2017 and 2021, preventing the equivalent of 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 from escaping into the atmosphere.

Arizona energy providers, state universities to develop clean hydrogen ecosystem and reduce state emissions

As a junior majoring in Natural Resources, Nadira Mitchell gets involved on campus and blends her personal interests with her professional goals.

Jamie Irby discusses her experience cleaning the Santa Cruz river and urges residents of Tucson to think deeply about their littering habits. 

Sam Wetherell, a sophomore at UArizona pursuing a double major in PPEL and EWRE, discusses accessibility in environmental spaces and the intersection between politics, economics, and climate advocacy.

Earth grant student volunteers carefully save molokhia seeds in the New Roots Garden.

Nicolas Katz, a senior majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, advocates for climate activism through community building.

Guerrilla urbanism. Lighter, quicker and cheaper. Insurgent urbanism. Pop-up urbanism. These are just some of the 16 terms used widely, though rarely evenly, for rapid planning responses to urban problems.