 I really see our society at a point where we have just enough time to make decisions, just enough time to be able to take action to create livelihoods, to create a sustainable and secure future that is equitable, that is just, and that provides benefits to all of our people. So really the main question that motivates my work is thinking about how we can mobilize knowledge to help solve the greatest sustainability challenges that we face as a society both now and into the future. And because the kind of solutions that we face require changes across different sectors of society, there is no real silver bullet solution. The science can produce information, it can produce knowledge, but that doesn't really solve any kinds of a problem. The other half is working with people to help create policies and actions in their communities to cooperatively produce the solutions that we need to help address these sustainability challenges. What the Global Futures Laboratory will do is to harness the thousands of faculty, staff, and students from Arizona State University to collaborate with their partners at other universities, national laboratories, and cities and other communities to bring the power of knowledge to help solve sustainability problems into the future. The impacts of global climate change are being felt here and now, and those impacts are helping people to realize that we need to address these challenges, not 50 years in the future, but we need to address these challenges now.