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Life cycle carbon footprint analysis and improvement strategies for US maple syrup production
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Project purpose
Maple syrup producers can influence greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with production practices. We will conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of maple syrup production, focus...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Meijer Scope 3 Carbon Accounting Framework
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As a retailer with business activities, including procurement, distribution, manufacturing, and retail operations in over six U.S. states, Meijer has a vast and complex value chain. In order to expand...
Life Cycle Assessment of a High-Protein Ramen
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The Center for Sustainable Systems at University of Michigan conducted for Borealis Foods a “cradle to grave” life cycle assessment of Chef Woo (CW) instant ramen noodle, a unique product that supp...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Scope 3 Inventory and Corporate Climate Strategy for Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc
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According to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting standard, Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions constitute emissions that result from indirect a...
MASTER'S PROJECT: GHG Inventory and Corporate Climate Strategy for Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc.
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Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. is in the early stages of developing a new climate change strategy and set of goals, and the student team will support designing the program, conducting a GHG inventory...
Greenhouse Gas Implications of Future US Diet Scenarios
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Research question:
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is promoting a campaign with a target of 50% reduction in meat and dairy consumption. To support this campaign, CBD is interested in...
Thermal Modification of Blue Stained, Fire Salvaged Timber
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The area of forest killed by wildfires, insect infestations and drought within the interior west has dramatically increased recently. If left standing, these dead trees are quickly attacked by a fu...
Navigating Local and Sustainable Foods: Development of an Evidence-based Environmental Sustainability Decision-Making Framework for Institutional Food Service Providers
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Graham Catalyst Grants
Catalyst Grants are offered in the fall and winter to support a range of short-term, small-scale collaborative activities. These grants are intended to help better define...
Understanding Strategies to Influence Environmentally Effective Dietary Shifts: Development of a Research Agenda
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Diet composition is a major determinant of the greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts associated with agriculture and food systems, and proper shifts in the diets of Americans pre...
A Comprehensive Comparison of Plant-Based and Animal-Based Protien Sources: Beyond Meat's Beyond Burger Life Cycle Assessment
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Project Goal:
The ultimate goal of the proposed project is to advance knowledge on the environmental impact of plant-based protein alternatives by conducting a clear, comprehensive comparison via...
U.S.-China: Integrated Systems Modeling of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus for Urban Sustainability
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This project will advance the science and engineering of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus modeling by developing and applying an integrated systems modeling framework. The modeling framework will enable ...
CAREER: Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database
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ABSTRACT
This research aims to advance the current practice of developing Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases into a faster, less expensive process that still generates reliable LCI data. The rese...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Valuing Natural Capital & Assessing Waste Recovery: A Study of Amcor's Flexible Packaging
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Goals & Objectives:
This project has two components for the student team to research:
First, students will assess the post-consumer waste and potential recovery of Amcor's flexible pac...
Category-Level Product Environmental Footprints of Foods
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Environmental footprinting of foods is at a critical and exciting stage of development: public and corporate interest in the information is at an all-time high, and the quantity and quality of comp...
Linking Health and Environmental Outcomes to Dietary Behaviors in the United States
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Project Objectives & Activities:
This project seeks to understand how individual dietary choices contribute to health and environmental outcomes, and how such choices can be modified b...
FEW Workshop: "Scaling Up" Urban Agriculture to Mitigate Food-Energy-Water Impacts
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With dramatic growth of urban areas and the majority of the world’s population now living in urban settings, cities have become dominant demand drivers in global food-energy-water (FEW) cycles. Glo...
Dow Fellow Research Support- Shen Qu
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Made possible by The Dow Chemical Company, the University of Michigan’s Dow Sustainability Fellows Program supports full-time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are committed to findin...
Life Cycle Assessment of Food Packaging and Waste
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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...
Nutritional benefits and environmental performance of dairy products
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New approaches are needed to assess in parallel the benefits and impacts of changes in the amount of dairy products in the US diet. Thus, we propose a framework to compare both nutritional/health b...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Environmental Trade-Offs in Commodity Production
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The World Wildlife Fund's Market Transformation Initiative aims to reduce the environmental impact of global commodity production through partnership with major companies and their supply networks....
MASTER'S PROJECT: Pursuing Sustainability with UMHS' Patient Food & Nutrition Services: Aligning Sustainable Practices with Healthcare Delivery
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Summary of Project Idea:
With 45 million inpatient and 1.9 million outpatient visits in 2011, the University of Michigan Health System manages a vast network of patients in constant flux. T...
Charting the Course for Sustainability at Aurora Organic Dairy – Phase III: Developing a Prototype Corporate Sustainability Report
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Aurora Organic Dairy is a leading national provider of organic milk with dairy farms in Colorado and Texas and over 50,000 acres of organic feed production in several states. Through its unique ver...
Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Shrimp Aquaculture Systems through Microbial Resource Management
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Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production system in the world and shrimp is currently the most popular seafood in the USA. Like all food production systems, shrimp production needs to inte...