# @arizonastateuniversity on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B_NdgC-gI6d
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/3614614-arizonastateuniversity-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-20T17:02:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Arizona State University (@arizonastateuniversity) — https://gondola.cc/arizonastateuniversity

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Ready for some good news? ASU #sustainability experts have found some positive consequences of #COVID19 physical distancing measures. ☀️ Reported in @asunow:⁣
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♻️ Mick Dalrymple, director of University Sustainability Practices @asu.usp, says, "The air is cleaner!" With people traveling less, greenhouse gas emissions have declined.⁣
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🌵People are getting outside much more! “They’re finding some way to get exercise and they’re not going to the gym,” Dalrymple says. While right now, a line up Camelback Mountain is not a good thing, Dalrymple says, “This is an opportunity to create a new trajectory toward a green economy."⁣
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✅ Alana Levine, who directs the university’s Zero Waste @zerowasteasu and Grounds Services, says she sees quite a bit of opportunity in business models right now: “When businesses want to innovate and adapt to a priority — sustainability emerging as a major one — then there’s going to be some really great innovation around material science and some of the business models."⁣
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💚More people are adopting or fostering shelter animals!  Levine says, "“I can’t stop looking it up! 'I found my best friend!’ ‘I found my co-worker!’ — Things like that. It’s awesome.” The county animal shelter has put 200 dogs in foster homes. In New York and Los Angeles, the @aspca says applications to foster dogs and cats is up 200%.⁣
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🌱People are taking up or relearning gardening and how to grow food, according to Dalrymple. He says, "Some of the gardening shops are doing online ordering where you pick it up like takeout. ... I’ve talked to several people who have started gardening and planting food."⁣
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Tell us your silver linings, Sun Devils! 🔱

#asu #arizonastateuniversity #sundevils #sundevillife #environment #aspca #zerowasteasu #positivity

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