NAU’s Center for Sustainable Environments focuses on two critical areas of environmental challenges: reducing the impact of food production, transport, and processing on biodiversity and resource consumption; and reducing the ecological impact of energy and water use, and production associated with building, communities, and transportation systems.

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is a membership-based association of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in highereducation in the US and Canada.

The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of morethan 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge unites young people to organize on college campuses and high schools to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools.

 

Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) has been working to end Peabody Coal Company’s wasteful use of scarce & sacred ground-water in Arizona while calling for a transition to renewable energy practices and sources.

Focus the Nation is a major educational initiative that is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities and high schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion centered around the theme of "Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century".

The Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) is an interdisciplinary faculty group effort to incorporate environmental sustainability issues into university courses with the ultimate goal of providing future citizens the education and skills necessary to achieve sustainable communities and societies.