As a senior associate at Better World Group, an environmental, energy, climate, and conservation policy and advocacy firm, Kimberly Guo takes on projects that address park equity and natural resources, with a focus on conservation and environmental justice.
Soil degradation threatens our ecosystems and climate, and thus the future of food access. To be sustainable, ecological processes will need to be managed using species diversity to sustain production and support important functions including restoring soil health, which is the focus of research being conducted by SEAS Associate Professor Jennifer Blesh alongside students and other collaborators.
An internship in the Office of Environmental Justice at the White House Council on Environmental Quality gave Megan Husted a peek into how the government can effect change. Now, she’s creating her own impact as special assistant in the Office of Electricity at the Department of Energy.
Storm-damaged trees from across U-M have been turned into new, functional furniture on campus. Students in Professor Joseph Trumpey’s Tree to Table class milled logs and worked with wood taken from trees on campus, including the legendary Tappan Oak.
SEAS Professor Emeritus Bunyan Bryant, a pioneer in the field of environmental justice who helped to establish the nation’s first environmental justice program at the school, died in March 2024 from cancer. He was 89. Bryant shepherded and inspired countless social and racial justice advocates in his four decades at U-M. Former students share how he influenced them.
Erin Gallay is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) focusing on Behavior, Education and Communication (BEC), specifically environmental...
As Michigan works to achieve its clean energy and energy justice goals outlined in the MI Climate Action Plan, the traditional Investor-Owned Utility (IOU) model for providing electricity is often an obstacle to progress. In collaboration with the Michigan Climate Action Network and Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, a group of U-M graduate students, including five from SEAS, recently published a comprehensive report about Michigan’s public power options.
Contact: mattport@umich.edu While ecologists have more data than ever to help monitor and understand biodiversity, researchers are still working to understand declining animal populations that can...
