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Growing local: U-M alums provide fresher food to consumers, higher profits to farmers

Growing local: U-M alums provide fresher food to consumers, higher profits to farmers

Chanese Forte, PhD Candidate
Researchers Discuss Sustainability Efforts, Advancing Solutions
U-M researchers are committed to enhancing sustainability efforts and advancing solutions to address human-influenced global climate change—from …

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Students taking a walk in the woods
Give Earth [another] chance
50 years after the first Earth Day, the next generation is rewriting the rules. On March 11, 1970, a 50,000-strong cadre packed the newly …

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Students taking a walk in the woods
University of Michigan Earth Camp spurs minority students to pursue environmental sciences
Before the first group of teen campers from the University of Michigan’s Earth Camp began exploring northern Michigan’s waters and and dunes, the …

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Recycling pioneer: U-M alumna puts Emmet County on national map as model for cutting waste
Recycling pioneer: U-M alumna puts Emmet County on national map as model for cutting waste
Recycling wasn’t at all the ubiquitous thing it is today when Elisa Seltzer stepped into a collection yard in Ann Arbor for the first time, more …

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Growing local: U-M alums provide fresher food to consumers, higher profits to farmers
Growing local: U-M alums provide fresher food to consumers, higher profits to farmers
Kathy Sample and Bill Brinkerhoff look to encourage a hardier, healthier local food economy. At the market, Michigan farmers can sell their goods …

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U-M alum: Brewery Vivant sustains people, planet, profit
U-M alum: Brewery Vivant sustains people, planet, profit
Sustainability is more than a passion for U-M alumna Kris Spaulding: it’s her business.

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