Feb. 11, 201
Facing budget challenges and pressure to reduce costs, Michigan's cities and towns are seeking creative solutions. With Ford Motor Company's help, students from The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan are helping create one solution for Michigan's poorest cities: an innovative financial model that will provide desperately needed capital to upgrade facilities, reduce energy consumption and save money.
Jan. 18, 2011
Planet Blue conducted an open house Tuesday, Jan. 18, in the Dana Building's Ford Commons. The event included displays and information on energy conservation, recycling opportunities and other sustainability oriented efforts across the University of Michigan campus.
T-shirt giveaways took place for students and staff who signed up to be Planet Blue citizens, and water bottles were distributed to those who completed the Planet Blue Quiz/Tip card. A lunch was also offered as were tours of various mechanical rooms within the building.
Jan. 14, 2011
Greg Keoleian was elected for a two-year term as president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.
Three SNRE Ph.D. students—Irem Daloglu, Dan Miller and Baruani Mshale—have received fellowships from U-M's Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute.
To learn how to visually represent the experience of a specific place for the class Visualizing the Environment, a group of 12 first-year Landscape Architecture students walked a little over a mile, from the Dana Building through downtown Ann Arbor, stopping along the way to sketch for one minute. They then returned to each point they had sketched to look at a particular aspect of the area.