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CNAP is awarding research grants totaling $1.75 million to seven projects that address the challenge of climate change. Program Manager Maggie Allan says the diversity of the selected projects captures how technology is needed to address carbon neutrality but also much more.
“We know that a combination of strategies are going to be required for achieving carbon neutrality, so there isn’t one easy fix, and we need to come at from a lot of different angles and the projects we chose to fund do just that.”
Decisions on funding allocations required a rigorous review process of potential projects. CNAP selected projects with.
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Lake Erie s dead zone blankets several thousand square miles of the lake s bottom. It is oxygen-starved and phosphorus-infused, reducing habitat for fish and other organisms. A new study marks the first time the process to be so closely monitored. Hannah Anderson of the U of M s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research says this study provides important new evidence. The phosphorus that is being dredged up yearly by the dead zones is a result of the legacy of the impacts of our land use as humans.
Until now, no evidence existed to pinpoint when and where this phenomenon occurs in Lake Erie.
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Ann Arbor artist and University of Michigan art professor Mark Tucker is unleashing a new, online art-making workshop as part of the UMMA + Chill event this winter. Those who participate will learn to make a ZooMoon Luminary Sculpture. These illuminated sculptures are meant to light up your world! The event will take place via Zoom, where you can meet new friends, get creative, laugh, and let your inner artist beast roam free!
Local filmmaker Donald Harrison will join Mark using a long lens to stay properly distanced during the pandemic to bring a different perspective and energy to the event.
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It is widely recognized that the environmental justice movement first gained traction in 1982 in a predominately African-American community in Warren County, North Carolina. University of Michigan professors Bunyan Bryant (a graduate of EMU) and Paul Mohai were pioneers in the movement. Bunyan Bryant who in 1972 had become the first African American to join the SNRE faculty attended a meeting at the Federation of Southern Cooperative in Sumter County. Shortly after, he joined with Professor Mohai in Ann Arbor.
In the early 1990s, during the Clinton years, it was the period when the environmental justice concept “hit the radar” of the EPA and federal government. Professors Byrant and Mohai led a team of academics and activists to advise the U.S. EPA on environmental justice policy. Drs. Bryant and Mohai published