reDirect Foundation Fellowships (2022-2024)
Context
Each year, the reDirect Foundation partners with the City of Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations (OSI) to offer summer fellowship opportunities for University of Michigan students.
With guidance from City staff and Professor Raymond De Young (UM School for Environment and Sustainability),
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Reducing wasted food in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Context
In November 2019, the City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan passed Resolution 19-2103: A Resolution in Support of Creating a Plan to Achieve Ann Arbor Community-Wide Climate Neutrality by 2030. Then, despite the Covid-19 pandemic,
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Introduction to behavioral aesthetics
Context
Changing an individual’s or group’s conservation behavior is hard. It is even more difficult if durable and spreading change is required (De Young 1993). But initiating change when the target behavior is difficult to identify beforehand would seem impossible.
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Localization: Research projects (Updated: September 1, 2024)
The Localization Seminar was taught at the University of Michigan from 2007 until 2022. A newer course, the Re-connection and Revitalization Seminar, based on the same premise as the Localization Seminar, has been offered several times,
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Localization: Research projects (Updated: May 1, 2023)
The Localization Seminar was taught at the University of Michigan from 2007 until 2022. It supported a number of graduate student research projects, theses, and practicums. These focused on topics such as local food systems, neighborhood resilience, voluntary simplicity,
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Localization: Research projects (Updated: May 5, 2021)
Since 2007, when the Localization Seminar was first taught at the University of Michigan, a growing number of graduate student research projects, theses, and practicums exist on topics such as local food systems, neighborhood resilience, voluntary simplicity, energy descent,
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Food waste and the climate crisis
Introduction
The global climate crisis is accelerating and nowhere are the effects felt more acutely than at the local level. The resulting impacts are causing immediate and long-term damages to our society, public health, safety, and overall quality of life.
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