Working with a small team in Gomez Palacio, Mexico, Paul Gruber helped form a team of local entrepreneurs, conducted sixteen business development workshops, and designed a water purification business plan.
Environmental Policy and Planning
Ann Arbor, Michigan
9/10/2008
A workshop led by Michigan Sea Grant brought together some of the region's largest foundations and agencies in June to consider potential policy changes and practices that will likely be needed for communities and ecosystems to adapt to climate change in the Great Lakes region, and to identify strategies for implementing those changes.
Don Scavia, Ph.D. | scavia@umich.edu<br />Professor and Director of Michigan Sea Grant<br />Office phone: 734.615.4860<br />Don Scavia homepage: http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/scavia
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In her internship at the City of Ann Arbor, Mickey Aldridge learned about the daily operation of a local government.
At WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Beth Herz worked to empower residents of Harlem to influence environmental policy decisions that affect their lives.
Rebecca Brooke interned with the National Park Service. The National Parks Business Plan Initiative (BPI) is a creative public/private partnership designed to promote the long-term health of our national parks through development of improved financial planning and management tools.
Brad Kinder's internship was designed to advance transparency, accountability, and equity in Camerooní¢â‚¬â„¢s forest tax revenue distribution system. This system was established to ensure rural communities benefit from the logging operations taking place in close proximity to their villages.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
5/28/2008
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes can lessen the impact of global warming or become global warming's victim-it all depends on Congress, according to a new report from the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition. The authors urged Congress to enact a comprehensive plan to restore the health of the Great Lakes.
Jeff Skelding, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, (202) 797-6893, jskelding@nwf.org<br />Don Scavia, University of Michigan, (734) 615-4860, scavia@umich.edu<br />Andy Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation, (734) 887-7100, buchsbaum@nwf.org<br />Jordan Lubetkin, National Wildlife Federation, (734) 887-7109; lubetkin@nwf.org<br />Nora Ferrell, Valerie Denney Communications, (312) 408-2580, nora@vdcom.com Global Warming great lakes
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
3/28/2008
Alumni Sara Barth and Mark Zankel encouraged students at the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) to take seriously the challenges climate change presents to land conservation policies and practices in the United States.
Kevin Merrill<br />Director of Communications<br />School of Natural Resources and Environment<br /><a href="mailto:merrillk@umich.edu">merrillk@umich.edu</a><br />O: 734.936.2447<br />C: 734.417.7392
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
4/14/2008
Global climate change and coastal brownfield redevelopment are two subjects that on the surface don't play well together.
But a group of University of Michigan graduate students, including four from its School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), have come up with an award-winning strategy. Their proposal calls for linking the subjects with a glue: a planning and design concept known as "resilience."
Kevin Merrill<br />Director of Communications<br />School of Natural Resources and Environment<br /><a href="mailto:merrillk@umich.edu">merrillk@umich.edu</a><br />O: 734.936.2447<br />C: 734.417.7392
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
3/28/2008
By Joyce Daniels
Michigan Sea Grant
When U-M professor Donald Scavia recently read the label on a container of organic lettuce, he was not surprised to find that the container itself was made from corn.
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