The Clean Air Cab Scholarship helps high-performing students with financial needs and an interest in innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability attend Arizona State University in either the College of Technology & Innovation or School of Sustainability.
Clean Air Cab will donate one dollar of every fare carried by the Arizona State University sustainability cab to scholarships to help support the next generation of innovative leaders.
Clean Air Cab is Arizona's first carbon neutral taxicab service. Its mission is to make it affordable and convenient for communities to go green by offering green cabs at less expensive rates than traditional cab alternatives.
"Clean Air Cab is excited about making this donation to Arizona State University," said Steve Lopez, the company's founder. "Our business is built on sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation, and we're proud to support the next generation of innovative young leaders as they learn and put forward their own solutions to our greatest challenges."
The College of Technology & Innovation is located on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University, which enrolls more than 9,700 students on a 600-acre campus in the Phoenix area's growing East Valley.�The College is home to five academic units including: the Departments of Engineering, Engineering Technology, Technological Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management, Applied Sciences and Mathematics, and the Morrison School of Agribusiness.
The College was built with a core focus on changing the way that engineering, math/sciences, and business are viewed, taught, and understood. By incorporating hands-on needs-driven projects into the curriculum, CTI students collaborate with industry and community partners to transform everyday challenges into opportunities for economic growth. The CTI model results in the creation of innovative products and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Arizona State University's School of Sustainability, located on the Tempe campus, is the first of its kind: a comprehensive degree-granting program with a transdisciplinary focus on finding real-world solutions to a spectrum of global challenges, including: energy, materials, and technology; water quality and scarcity; international development; ecosystems; social transformations; food and food systems; and policy and governance. Established in spring 2007 and enrolling undergraduates since fall 2008, the School is part of the Global Institute of Sustainability.
The School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines and leaders to create and share knowledge, train a new generation of scholars and practitioners, and develop practical solutions to some of the most pressing societal challenges, especially as they relate to urban areas.
ASU has developed a new model for the American research university, creating an institution that is committed to excellence, access and impact. ASU pursues research that contributes to the public good; and ASU assumes major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural vitality of the communities that surround it.