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Climate ChangeDetroitEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature DetroitFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNew YorkNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchTEDTED Countdown: BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird on greening America’s buildings, improving communities
-On Friday, Donnel Baird spoke at the TED Countdown Summit about greening America’s buildings with his company, Blocpower.
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Climate ChangeDetroitEvents and Special BroadcastsFeature DetroitFeature HomepageGreat Lakes Conferences ConferencesGreat Lakes Now Events and Road/River ShowsIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchTEDVideoThe TED Countdown Summit is coming to Detroit
-As the city at the heart of the automotive industry grappling with building a sustainable future, Detroit was a deliberate choice for this year’s Countdown Summit.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. Pushes Farmers to Develop A New Crop: Energy
-But more heavily fertilized corn and more manure for methane raises worries about water pollution.
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AgricultureCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationDrinking WaterEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsU.S. Counts on “Climate-Smart” Farms to Slow Global Warming
-But skeptics assert change in practices could increase risk to water and health.
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AdvocacyAuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchThe StatesU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFormer U.N. adviser warns on water futures trading, elevates water crisis to level of climate
-Canada’s Maude Barlow says Michigan, Canada Line 5 dispute is on the “back burner” between Trudeau and Biden.
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AdvocacyAuthorsBudgetCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDetroitDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageGary WilsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsDemocrats in control: Advocates want action on justice, climate and “stronger leadership” from Gov. Whitmer
-“Deal with the problem of environmental racism head on and finally put it to bed.”
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APEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesFish, Birds and AnimalsGary WilsonHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake SuperiorLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsClimate Ghosts author: To save more species, treat them like kin
-Western science and systemic restoration practices aren’t enough to stop the crash of struggling species.
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Climate ChangeCollaborationCOP26Latest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchYou Can’t Beat Climate Change Without Tackling Disinformation
-Over more than a century, PR firms built and fine-tuned a machine to deceive the public.
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Climate ChangeCollaborationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRecreation and TourismHow the Ski Industry Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Climate Activism
-An interview with the president of the International Ski Federation, Gian Franco Kasper, made its way around the Internet faster than locals flocking to the first chair on a powder day. In the 2019 interview, Kasper told a Swiss newspaper that he preferred working with dictators to environmentalists and that there is no proof of “so-called” climate change.
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Farmers’ Almanac forecasts frosty Great Lakes flip-flop
-The month-to-month contrast follows an unusually stormy summer for the Great Lakes region, which the Almanac predicted to be “muggy and thundery” last April.
