The Minitrack on Information Systems and Sustainable Development at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences emphasizes the significant synergies that exist between information systems and sustainability research from an organizational as well as a technical perspective. Collaboration and cross-fertilization between these domains can be mutually beneficial and present unique, timely and socially relevant ‘real-world’ research opportunities as well as viable public sources of empirical ecological information for interdisciplinary research and application.