Environment

  1. Vet seeks to grow hope amid 'food deserts'

    Kenneth Johnson redeploys military training to bring healthy food and other sustainable solutions to underserved populations.

  2. Color solar cells fuse energy, beauty

    New technology invented at U-M brings colorful design element to solar panels.

  3. Engineers making a difference

    Creativity, design, and customer service take precedence in a unique course, as freshmen “tinker” their way to real results.

  4. Tree's Company

    U-M celebrates its fifth consecutive year as a certified “Tree Campus USA,” according to the Arbor Day Foundation. Somewhere, Andrew Dickson White is smiling.

    Related Video: Revisit Nichols Arboretum for a glimpse of glorious Michigan summer, courtesy of the Alumni Association.

  5. On the road

    Video: Adaptation is the new black. Just ask road trippers Allie Goldstein, MS ’13, and Kirsten Howard, MS ’13, who are criss-crossing the country and changing the conversation around climate change.

  6. Claws and Effect

    We all know that the wolverine is a rare breed. But it’s also a threatened species that needs our protection. Biologist Bridget Fahey, MS ’97, is on the case at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

  7. Coping with the personal aftershocks of disaster

    A study on survivors of 2011’s triple disaster in Japan reveals options to help prevent and protect against the violence that often follows such events.

  8. Net-zero water consumption

    Imagine a home that had walls filled with water, toilets that composted their own waste, and a roof capable of disinfecting water through the sun’s UV rays. Now imagine a team of engineering students retrofitting one Ann Arbor home to achieve net-zero water consumption.

  9. Sustainability Progress Report highlights U-M's achievements

    Sustainability research funding at U-M is up by 200 percent since 2003. Sustainability faculty and courses are increasing too.