The FEWSION project aims to provide FEWSION news and highly accessible educational resources for the public, students, instructors, and policymakers, by making your Food, Energy, and Water system more visible.
News
- Baltimore Bridge Collapse Disrupts Global Coal Trade
The disaster is a reminder of the commodity’s persistent importance to the global economy. Image credit: Getty Images. The Port of Baltimore accounted for 28% of the nation’s coal exports last year. U.S.News World Report… Read more: Baltimore Bridge Collapse Disrupts Global Coal Trade - Where is the Colorado River going?
The NAU Review | Heidi Toth, NAU Communications …The Colorado River loses 19.3 million acre feet of water per year to cities, farms and evaporation—roughly the amount of water used by the 50 largest U.S.… Read more: Where is the Colorado River going? - Supply Chain Disruptions: Impacts on Vulnerable Communities
Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Download the full proceedings here. Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Science and Technology for Resilience… Read more: Supply Chain Disruptions: Impacts on Vulnerable Communities - Arizona cities struggle to maintain recycling programs because of high costs
Posted April 21, 2023 | UPDATED on November 22, 2023 AZ Central, Environment | Clara Migoya …Many communities in Arizona lack recycling services. A big factor in the decline of programs was that most recycled… Read more: Arizona cities struggle to maintain recycling programs because of high costs - FEWSION Data Science on the Colorado River makes the front page of The New York Times
The FEWSION team was featured in the front page spread on The New York Times on Monday the 22nd: The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the WaterHint: It’s less about long showers… Read more: FEWSION Data Science on the Colorado River makes the front page of The New York Times - DoD funds new project aimed at protecting global supply chains, infrastructure
Thanks to the work of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a new project led by Northern Arizona University, with various collaborators throughout the nation, will help the United States better protect the critical supply chain infrastructure… Read more: DoD funds new project aimed at protecting global supply chains, infrastructure - Who’s really using up the water in the American West?
Posted October 25, 2022 This video by Vox addresses the source of water scarcity in the Western U.S. On-page description: The Western United States is currently battling the most severe drought in thousands of years.… Read more: Who’s really using up the water in the American West? - Making cities naturally safe from supply chain shocks
First published: July 7, 2021 on The NAU Review Referencing “Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks” Read the full paper here. Gomez, M., Mejia, A., Ruddell, B.L. & Rushforth, R. (2021). A new… Read more: Making cities naturally safe from supply chain shocks - Don’t Trash Recycling – The Arizona Republic
Printed TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022 | Alison Steinbach Arizona Republic | USA TODAY NETWORK “If we’re going to make a difference for generations to come, we have to start thinking about the circular economy, recycling.”Laura… Read more: Don’t Trash Recycling – The Arizona Republic - America’s Supply Chains: A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the PresidentExecutive Order 14017 of February 24, 2021 America’s Supply Chains “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as… Read more: America’s Supply Chains: A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President
- A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food tradeAccepted Manuscript online August 4, 2021 on IOPScience Environmental Research Deniz Berfin Karakoc and Megan Konar. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a9b Abstract Global food trade is crucial for food security and availability. Trade is typically optimized to promote efficiency, whereas… Read more: A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade
- Multilayer Network Clarifies Prevailing Water Consumption Telecouplings in the United StatesFirst published: July 1, 2021 on Advancing Earth and Space Science https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029141 Garcia, S., Gomez, M., Rushforth, R., Ruddell, B.L. & Mejia, A. (2021). Abstract Virtual water flows are used to map the indirect water… Read more: Multilayer Network Clarifies Prevailing Water Consumption Telecouplings in the United States
- Publication: Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocksnature, posted July 7, 2021 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03621-0 Gomez, M., Mejia, A., Ruddell, B.L. & Rushforth, R.R. Abstract Food supply shocks are increasing worldwide1,2, particularly the type of shock wherein food production or distribution loss in one… Read more: Publication: Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks
- The FEWSION for Community Resilience (F4R) Process: Building Local Technical and Social Capacity for Critical Supply Chain ResilienceFrontiers in Environmental Science, posted March 26, 2021 Release of the article by Ryan, S., Roberts, E., Hibbett, E., Bloom, N., Haden, C., Rushforth, R., Pfeiffer, K. & Ruddell, B.L. (2021). “The FEWSION for Community… Read more: The FEWSION for Community Resilience (F4R) Process: Building Local Technical and Social Capacity for Critical Supply Chain Resilience
- Reanalysis of Water Withdrawal for Irrigation, Electric Power, and Public Supply Sectors in the Conterminous United States, 1950–2016First published: 19 January 2021 on Advancing Earth and Space Science https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027751 McManamay, R. A., KC, B., Allen‐Dumas, M. R., Kao, S. C., Brelsford, C. M., Ruddell, B. L., et al. (2021). Abstract Accurately measuring water use by the economy… Read more: Reanalysis of Water Withdrawal for Irrigation, Electric Power, and Public Supply Sectors in the Conterminous United States, 1950–2016
Classroom Resources
- Graduate Textbook Released: The Food-Energy-Water NexusEditors Dr. Peter Saundry, Adjunct Professor of Energy at Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow at the National Council for Science and Environment, and Dr. Benjamin Ruddell, Professor in and the Director of the School… Read more: Graduate Textbook Released: The Food-Energy-Water Nexus
- FEW-View™ Poster ReleasedA poster to represent FEW-View ™ has been released by the ASU Decision Theater, members of the FEWSION team.
- INFEWS-ERAllied with the FEWSION project, the INFEWS-ER will provide a virtual environment for completing the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) graduate student experience, thereby facilitating the generation of human capital who can address grand challenges… Read more: INFEWS-ER
- A Participatory Curriculum “The FEWSION for Community Resilience Process”The FEWSION for Community Resilience Network (F4R™) offers this participatory process and curriculum that is ideal for college courses on Food Energy and Water systems and also for community organizations with a mission to improve their… Read more: A Participatory Curriculum “The FEWSION for Community Resilience Process”
- FEWSION™ Data Visualization: FEW-View™FEWSION™ is building the first complete empirical description of the U.S. food, energy, and water system so that every citizen and policymaker in the U.S. can see where their food, energy, and water come from.… Read more: FEWSION™ Data Visualization: FEW-View™
Podcasts
Featured: Podcast Series – Crucial FEWSION Episodes
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- Crucial FEWSION Episode 9: Net Primary Production – From A Pixel to the PlanetEarth’s Primary Life Support System … And Why It’s Important To Understand How Humans Are Changing It Podcast Net Primary Production (NPP) is the term… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 9: Net Primary Production – From A Pixel to the Planet
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 8: Harnessing Hestia and Vulcan. A US-wide CO2 Emissions Monitoring NetworkPodcast In this episode of Crucial FEWSION, NAU carbon scientist Kevin Gurney explains the state of research on proto-types for a U.S. national CO2 emissions… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 8: Harnessing Hestia and Vulcan. A US-wide CO2 Emissions Monitoring Network
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 7: Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocksPodcast Hear nature paper authors Michael Gomez, Alfonso Mejia, and Benjamin Ruddell explain how they tested the ability of US food supply chains to respond… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 7: Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 6: Understanding U.S. Food Supply ChainsPodcast How much do you know about the supply chains that bring you your food? Do you know how far your food travels to reach… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 6: Understanding U.S. Food Supply Chains
- Why the biggest reservoirs in the west are running low–and what to do about itPodcast Brian Richter, president of Sustainable Waters, and author of the book, Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability, talks about the roots of… Read more: Why the biggest reservoirs in the west are running low–and what to do about it
- NAU Research Shows U.S Supply Chains Still Intact In Midst Of CoronavirusKNAU Arizona Public Radio By MELISSA SEVIGNY • MAR 31, 2020 “The coronavirus pandemic has caused a spike in demand for food and other basic… Read more: NAU Research Shows U.S Supply Chains Still Intact In Midst Of Coronavirus
- Study: Beef, Dairy Production Linked To Depleted RiversKNAU Arizona Public Radio By MELISSA SEVIGNY • MAR 10, 2020 “A new study from Northern Arizona University shows the impact raising cattle has on water resources in the… Read more: Study: Beef, Dairy Production Linked To Depleted Rivers
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 5: ‘Is My Burger Killing a River?’Podcast Does it matter what you eat? When you enjoy a juicy burger or steak are there any environmental consequences of your meal? What if… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 5: ‘Is My Burger Killing a River?’
- Mapping the Nation’s Entire Food, Energy and Water Supply ChainPodcast by Robert J. BowmanSupplyChainBrain – June 7, 2019For the first time ever, there’s a publicly available map of the food, energy and water supply… Read more: Mapping the Nation’s Entire Food, Energy and Water Supply Chain
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 4: The Last Mile & the Role of Citizen ScientistsPodcast FEWSION project data provides an averaging, total picture of your county or city’s food-energy-water supplies. But the important protections afforded by US data privacy laws mean that researchers don’t have… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 4: The Last Mile & the Role of Citizen Scientists
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 3: The Butterfly EffectPodcast Understanding Resilience, Vulnerability and Sustainability in Food-Energy-Water Systems Who do you think has the most sustainable water supply – residents of the mountain town… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 3: The Butterfly Effect
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 2: What is Local?Podcast Episode Two of this podcast series is all about the methodology of how FEWSION’s national data sets are derived. FEWSION project director Ben Ruddell… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 2: What is Local?
- Crucial FEWSION Episode 1: Introduction to FEWSIONPodcast In the first episode of this new podcast series, project director, Ben Ruddell (Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems… Read more: Crucial FEWSION Episode 1: Introduction to FEWSION
- The Food Fix interview with Megan Konar, How investing in infrastructure can make the world less hungryPodomatic
- New Project To Map Food, Energy, and Water Systems NationwideKJZZ Link: http://kjzz.org/content/365644/new-project-map-food-energy-and-water-systems-nationwide
Videos
- Who’s really using up the water in the American West?Posted October 25, 2022 This video by Vox addresses the source of water scarcity in the Western U.S. On-page description: The Western United States is currently battling the most severe drought in thousands of years.… Read more: Who’s really using up the water in the American West?
- FEWSION Supply Chain: Science Animated
Posted December 16, 2021 Check out this video overview of the FEW-View™ mapping tool. PRESS HERE for video transcription Ruddell, B.L., Rushforth, R.R., and Science Animated. (2021). - AGU TV features the Vulcan and Hestia Projects at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University
Video feature published by AGU TV (Advancing Earth and Space Science) December 2, 2020. This video describes the Vulcan and Hestia Projects at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University. Vulcan… Read more: AGU TV features the Vulcan and Hestia Projects at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University - Getting early hurricane supplies imperative during pandemic
Video WINK NEWSPublished: May 18, 2020Updated: June 2, 2020Reporter: Taylor PetrasWriter: Jack Lowenstein Shelves are wiped out week after week, forcing limits on the number of items you can buy at a time when Southwest… Read more: Getting early hurricane supplies imperative during pandemic - Code Blue: Water Security Conflicts and Solutions: FEWSION, Water, Food, Energy
FEWSION is building the first complete empirical description of the U.S. food, energy, and water system so that every citizen and policymaker in the U.S. can see where their food, energy, and water come from.… Read more: Code Blue: Water Security Conflicts and Solutions: FEWSION, Water, Food, Energy