Projects

With the fastest-growing herd of any country, Brazil’s cattle industry is frequently cited as the country’s single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In the last 50 years, over 17% of...

We developed this project in response to a growing local-level demand for information and guidance on accessing local, state, and federal energy financing programs. Knowledge regarding these progra...

Global Forest Partners LP (GFP) is a sustainable timber investment management organization. As the global community increases its focus on the impact that carbon emissions are having on climate cha...

Goals & Objectives: The overall objective of this effort is to define the opportunity that exists on the U of M Ann Arbor campus to take a leading position in the change towards a more energy...

Project Location:  Technology for Tomorrow, Kampala, Uganda Summary of Project Idea: Technology for Tomorrow is a registered company in Uganda working to apply appropriate technologies f...

Goals & Objectives: The goal of the Southeast Michigan Municipal Street Lighting Consortium (hereinafter, Consortium) is to convert streetlights throughout the metropolitan Detroit region to high...

Goals & Objectives: The purpose of this project is to develop the environmental sustainability plan for Meijer, Inc., a growing multi-billion dollar retailer with over 200 stores, five distributi...

Goals & Objectives: To develop a new urban and landscape design strategy to incorporate with water sensitivity (scarcity and pollution) and low impact development (LID) in China. Justific...

Project Location: Tainan, Taiwan. Goals & Objectives: To compare the LCA, by ISO standards, of our Stone Paper material to that of paper and plastics. Justification, Benefit, or Sign...

This project aims at evaluating risks for the global trade network posed by water scarcity. This objective will be achieved by developing and applying a probabilistic network analysis framework. Ba...

Recent emphasis on packaging light weighting and recyclability may be overshadowing a far greater influence of packaging on sustainability: product waste reduction through product protection and sa...

Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies (PISET) This program seeds new interdisciplinary research programs in sustainable energy science, technology, and policy with fund...

The goal of this LCA is to compare flexible plastic packaging to other packaging materials. This study is being carried out to explore and validate the balance between packaging type, packaging was...

Introduction The Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan will conduct a research project to quantify the environmental performance of the FibARM® Structural Strengthening S...

Michigan Mobility Transformation Center The Michigan Mobility Transformation Center (MTC) is a government-industry partnership formed at U-M to transform global mobility by dramatically improving t...

Introduction This project was selected as a Dow Distinguished Award for Interdisciplinary Sustainability.  To foster high-impact sustainability collaborations across the University of Mich...

From the Apartments of Kanto to the Forests of Siberia Funding for this project is provided by the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan ($25, 612). Newell also received a Weiser ...

By modeling materialization trends for China’s production structure against the consumer demand structure, the relationship between economic growth and environmental pressure can be measured. P...

American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) The practice of using lightweighting in military applications can yield many benefits.  The National Research Cou...

Kellogg Company sources agricultural commodities from around the world to manufacture its products; the company is committed to enhancing the natural resources and livelihoods of the area...

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) is a federally recognized tribe, with 4,559 Tribal Citizens residing on approximately 336 square miles of land in the northwestern part of Mich...

With growing globalization, complexity has increased in the supply chain system. To mitigate the potential sustainability risks, comprehensive evaluation and assessment should be developed to provi...

The goal of this project is to engage students at the More than Me Academy in a participatory landscape design project that will provide designs for a new school yard landscape. More that Me is an ...