environment
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September 26, 2024
Celebrating sustainability
Faculty, staff and students engaged with representatives from a variety of campus units, student organizations and community non-profits about environmental topics and came together toward a shared culture of sustainability at Earthfest 2024 on Sept. 26. This gallery of images captures some of the activities that took place on the Diag as part of the… -
March 25, 2024
Earth Month puts focus on U-M sustainability efforts
U-M is marking late March and all of April with a series of events focused on sustainability and climate action, continuing a tradition that began with the first “Teach-In on the Environment” in 1970.
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September 13, 2023
Climate action opportunities will abound at Earthfest
Earthfest, an annual event celebrating environmental initiatives across the university, takes place on the Diag from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 21.
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August 14, 2023
Educator is helping create a sustainable future
UM-Dearborn’s interpretive naturalist Dorothy McLeer pulls out all the creative stops to help people retain information while taking them on guided tours of the trails.
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February 23, 2022
Wege speaker: Everyone has a role in saving the planet
For the environmental movement to be effective, it must be something that everyone participates in, marine biologist and climate policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson says.
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February 22, 2021
Release of nutrients worsens Lake Erie’s annual ‘dead zone’
Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake’s central basin each year from rivers and tributaries.
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March 12, 2020
Original Earth Day organizers come together 50 years later
Six former members of the U-M student organization that established the original Teach-In on the Environment in 1970 reconvened 50 years later for a panel discussion.
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February 14, 2020
Fighting climate change at the sink: A guide to greener dishwashing
A new U-M study on washing dishes shows that the manual two-basin method is associated with fewer greenhouse gas emissions than machine dishwashing and the “running tap” method.
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February 10, 2020
Campus briefs
Short news items from across the University of Michigan.
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June 13, 2017
U-M first Division 1 campus to receive environmental certification
A joint effort involving eight Ann Arbor campus departments has earned U-M the state’s first Division 1 campuswide certification for reducing pesticides and fertilizer.
