Environment
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Helping buildings work smarter, not harder
How big data could mean big savings in economy, environment.
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Re-inspiring a nuclear renaissance?
U-M experts seek to meet the global demand for energy, rehabilitate nuclear power’s public image.
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Out on a limb
Christoph Nolte is an institutional economist and conservationist who can see the forest for the trees.
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My accidental conversion to nuclear power
In this personal essay, MT writer Madeline Strong Diehl chronicles her “accidental conversion” to nuclear power through an encounter with U-M’s Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science students.
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A global nuclear renaissance?
After a 30-year hiatus in new construction, a handful of U.S. utility companies are moving forward with plans to join a “nuclear renaissance” that seems to be affecting countries around the globe. Some 40 countries — mainly in the Middle East and Asia — have committed to enhancing or creating nuclear portfolios.
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Should professors engage in public debate?
Academics see role, responsibility in raising quality of public discourse.
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Dances like wind
Unique collaboration provokes dialogue about alternative energy in Michigan.
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The vanishing of Schoolgirls' Glen
Reclaiming one of the most precious and vulnerable gems in Nichols Arboretum.
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Vet seeks to grow hope amid 'food deserts'
Kenneth Johnson redeploys military training to bring healthy food and other sustainable solutions to underserved populations.