Providing Food for Thought
The Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens is a living, learning laboratory providing opportunities related to the production of sustainable food. Along with its partners, the Sustainable Food Program and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, the farm is transforming U-M into a world-class place for research, teaching and engagement in sustainable food systems.
Addressing Sustainability From Every Angle
There are more than 800 faculty conducting sustainability-related research in all of U-M’s 19 schools and colleges, including the areas of business, public policy and economics.
Learning to Conserve
Saginaw Forest is one of the U-M School for the Environment & Sustainability’s six off-campus field research sites where faculty and students are developing novel approaches to the sustainable management of wildlands, protected areas and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Inspiring a Better Future
Interested in learning what you can do about climate change? There are more than 700 courses taught at U-M addressing urgent environmental issues and 60 student groups tackling sustainability issues.
Advancing Mobility
The Mcity Test Facility, a 32-acre site on U-M's North Campus Research Complex, simulates the broad range of complexities vehicles encounter in urban and suburban environments to improve the safety, sustainability and accessibility of the ways that people and goods move from place to place.
Protecting the Great Lakes and Beyond
Michigan researchers partner with communities and government agencies to address important issues impacting the global water supply, water infrastructure, aquatic ecosystems and overall quality. Two major efforts include U-M’s Water Center and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research.
Promoting Healthy Environments
Cutting-edge research at U-M is uncovering and addressing the latest knowledge about environmental issues that affect human health. We're helping to plan healthy cities, design sustainable products, explore the human genome, safeguard workers and impact public policy to improve health throughout the U.S. and across the globe.
Seeking Environmental Knowledge & Justice
U-M offers more than 10 undergraduate degrees, a dozen master’s degrees and 15 doctoral programs related to the environment and sustainability. We were the first university in the nation to offer an environmental justice curriculum.
Fifty years ago, U-M held the nation’s first “Environmental Teach-In”, which drew more than 15,000 participants. It served as a model for the events of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Today, concerns about our environment are more urgent than ever. Earth Day at 50 is a special year dedicated to bringing the U-M campus and community partners together to explore the impact we are currently making on sustainability and how we can rise to the challenge of creating a better future for our planet.
Planned highlights include: Earthfest, an LSA Theme Semester, and featured speakers and topics at the Wege Lecture, the culminating Earth Day teach-in and other major university events.
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U-M has a longstanding commitment to the environment and sustainability in education, research, operations, and engagement. It is vital that we continue to explore and implement new solutions to address these challenges from every angle.
Learn more about sustainability at U-M and the U-M President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality.
From the first forestry class to creating a model for the first Earth Day and developing the first academic program in environmental justice, the U-M community has a long history of being pioneers in the field.
The work of these passionate leaders has laid a bold foundation that is now inspiring the next generation.
