Sustainability
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May 12, 2020
Research group looks to encourage energy conservation
Buildings accounted for 98.5 percent of total Ann Arbor campus energy use during fiscal year 2019, and one U-M research team has been exploring ways to better enable energy efficiency projects in existing buildings.
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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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December 2, 2019
Carbon panel exploring methane leakage, indirect emissions
The President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality is pushing ahead with efforts on methane leakage, indirect carbon emissions and other initiatives in its ongoing effort to guide U-M toward carbon neutrality.
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October 23, 2019
Chemistry’s green future takes root at UM-Flint
While government agencies work to remediate PFAS in the environment, professors at UM-Flint are training the next generation of chemists to avoid making similar mistakes through an innovative subfield called Green Chemistry.
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September 25, 2019
Commission co-chairs: Climate change solutions need broad commitment
Successfully tackling the problem of climate change will require help from all areas of the U-M community, say the co-chairs of the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality.
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September 17, 2019
Commission on Carbon Neutrality internal analysis teams
The U-M President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality’s eight internal analysis teams, and their respective leads.
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September 9, 2019
Freight Farm gives U-M fresh produce, sustainability data
The Freight Farm, which sits on U-M’s Campus Farm, is a 320-square-foot recycled shipping container outfitted with 256 columns that can grow plants ranging from veggies to flowers.
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August 27, 2019
Biological Sciences Building certified as LEED Gold
The Biological Sciences Building has earned certification as a LEED Gold building by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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August 9, 2019
Team led by U-M selected to manage national estuary research
A team led by U-M has been awarded a five-year, $20 million cooperative agreement to help oversee research at a nationwide network of 29 coastal reserves.
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July 12, 2019
Large harmful algal bloom predicted for western Lake Erie
U-M researchers and their partners are forecasting that western Lake Erie will experience a significant harmful algal bloom this summer.
