SNRE and PitE students have a great opportunity to apply their interest in sustainability to affordable housing during a Habitat for Humanity of Huron Valley home revitalization.
Work alongside Dow Chemical employees who have a passion for sustainability, our university and our community. Lunch is provided both days.
Monday, Sept. 16 schedule slots
- 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- 12:00 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17 schedule slots
- 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- 12:00 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday's program includes a special program starting at 9:30 a.m. and featuring Bo Miller, Dow Director of Corporate Citizenship; Don Scavia, Graham Family Professor and Special Counsel on Sustainability to U-M President; Neil Hawkins, Dow Vice President, Global EH&S and Sustainability; and Rob Nissly, Habitat Housing Director. Q&A to follow.
Transportation available (details online.) Space is limited!
Sign up now: www.h4h.org/sign-up
SNRE and PitE students have a great opportunity to apply their interest in sustainability to affordable housing during a Habitat for Humanity of Huron Valley home revitalization.
Work alongside Dow Chemical employees who have a passion for sustainability, our university and our community. Lunch is provided both days.
Monday, Sept. 16 schedule slots
- 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- 12:00 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17 schedule slots
- 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- 12:00 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday's program includes a special program starting at 9:30 a.m. and featuring Bo Miller, Dow Director of Corporate Citizenship; Don Scavia, Graham Family Professor and Special Counsel on Sustainability to U-M President; Neil Hawkins, Dow Vice President, Global EH&S and Sustainability; and Rob Nissly, Habitat Housing Director. Q&A to follow.
Transportation available (details online.) Space is limited!
Sign up now: www.h4h.org/sign-up
The Program in the Environment presents a lecture by architect Doug Farr, who will be recognized as the 2013-14 Goldring Family Distinguished Visiting Lecturer. This event is made possible by the generous donation of the Goldring Family Foundation.
Farr (AIA, LEED AP) is the founding principal of Farr Associates, an award-winning architecture and planning firm identified by The New York Times as "the most prominent of the city's growing cadre of ecologically sensitive architects." Having a mission to design sustainable human environments, Farr's niche is in applying the principles of LEED at the scale of the neighborhood and in designing green buildings exclusively for urban contexts. Farr Associates has designed seven LEED Platinum-rated buildings in Chicago, including the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago Center for Green Technology and Christy Webber Landscapes., which stand as models of urban architectural sustainability. In December 2012, the firm was named AIA Chicago’s Firm of the Year.
Farr was born in Detroit and received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and his graduate degree in architecture from Columbia University. He is Vice Chair of the board for the Congress for the New Urbanism, a member of the LEED Steering Committee and was the inaugural chair of the LEED for Neighborhood Development committee. He is the founder of the 2030 Communities Campaign that seeks to reduce vehicle miles traveled. Farr's work has been featured in Architectural Record, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and the PBS documentary "The Green Machine."
Based on the firm's pioneering sustainable design practice and his insights gained from chairing LEED-ND, Farr authored Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature (Wiley). This planning bestseller visualizes Sustainable Urbanism—the growing sustainable design convergence that integrates walkable and transit-served urbanism with high-performance infrastructure and buildings—as the normal pattern of development in the United States by 2030. Learn more at www.FarrSide.com.
Forty years ago the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law. The ESA's authority has been tested by numerous cases over its 40-year history, but the landmark environmental case -- Tennessee Valley Authority vs. Hill (1978) -- was the first Supreme Court decision interpreting the ESA. The Snail Darter case, as it is often called, remains one of the most studied American environmental law cases to date (as all current and former NRE562 students know too well).
To acknowledge the 40th anniversary of the ESA, the Environmental Policy and Planning field of study is pleased to announce that Zygmunt Plater, the lawyer who fought and won the case (with the help of SNRE students!), will be speaking at SNRE this coming Thursday September 26th from 10-11:30 in Dana 2024. In his talk, entitled "The Endangered Species Act at 40: From SNRE's role in the 'Snail Darter' case to today's implications," he will share his reflections and insights from the Snail Darter case and will touch on the case's role in understanding current environmental conflicts.
SNRED-Nation!
Are you interested in learning more about environmental justice in action and how graduates of SNRE use what they learn here in their careers? Then come join the SNRE Envoys for our first Diversity Speaker Series event of the year on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. in Dana 2024! SNRE alumna Diana Copeland from the East Michigan Environmental Action Council will be speaking to students about her work in environmental justice in Michigan and beyond and how SNRE shaped her career. Afterwards, Diana will be available for Q&A.
Food and refreshments will also be provided :)
About the SNRE Envoys:
We are a group of MS/MLA students working together to increase diversity, while creating an inclusive and supportive culture and community for all those who attend the school. For more information or if you are interested in working with us contact Daphne Medina (dcmedina@umich.edu).
The 2nd annual UMSFP Harvest Festival celebrates the first growing season in the Campus Farm's permanent home at Matthaei Botanical Gardens and the good work of students moving sustainable food forward on campus. Join us for good food, good music, farm tours, and other seasonal activities!
Tickets available at http://umsfp.com/index.php/harvest-festival. Stay tuned to our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/umsfp) for updates and details.
FREE transportation available from Central Campus! Look for the big yellow school bus in front of Rackham every half hour during the event.
Cost: Suggested $10 donation per ticket to help cover costs and support student initiatives through the school year
More info: http://umsfp.com/index.php/harvest-festival
Contact Allyson Green: aggreen@umich.edu