U-M Erb Institute • 11th November 2025 Professor Len Middleton Leads MAP Teams Driving the Global Tipping Points Program Toward Net Zero Solutions Central to COP30 in Brazil this month is the concept of global tipping points, outlined by the Global Tipping Points program.
Running Industry Diversity Coalition • 18th September 2025 Opening the Path to Trail Running A toolkit for runners, retailers, and communities
Wander Magazine • 6th August 2025 Replanting the Future: Trees for Days and the Rise of Regenerative Travel Tree planting is inherently a good thing. But beyond sequestering carbon and reforestation, tree planting can help uplift struggling communities—if they’re true partners in the process.
The Hub • 16th July 2025 A green path to improve teen mental health, in Baltimore and beyond Cleaning up and 'greening' vacant lots can not only reduce eyesores but also boost the mental health of nearby residents.
National Geographic • 22nd May 2025 Iffy about camping? Here's what a guided camping trip can offer. “Our family loves the outdoors. We just don’t like sleeping in it.” This is what I heard my 11-year-old daughter telling another girl on our camping trip, who had asked where else we’d been camping. The answer: Nowhere.
Extended Weekend Getaways • 13th May 2025 Hiking lesser-known parks While people flock to Taos and Santa Fe for skiing and other attractions, the national and state parks in southern New Mexico are a lesser-known alternative for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.
U-M Erb Institute • 20th February 2025 Empowering regenerative agriculture and circularity at J.Crew One of the programs O’Hare is especially proud of is that J.Crew is supporting 35 cotton farmers across the U.S. by paying them directly to fund their transition to regenerative agriculture.
Second Wave Michigan • 31st January 2025 Collaboration gets Dearborn air quality data to people who need it “Air quality, even just down the street, can be very different from your front door. Having these sensors at a hyper-local level can really give you a better picture of what's going on,” says Nick Thomas, director of MiNextCities at NextEnergy.
Lonely Planet • 4th October 2024 Epic Runs of North America I wrote two pieces in this Lonely Planet book: White Sands National Park and The Detroit Riverwalk
National Wildlife • 29th September 2024 Maintaining a Sandhill Crane Oasis in the Desert In a New Mexico desert transformed by human activity, wildlife managers create the seasonal wetlands that sandhill cranes rely on each fall and winter.
Audubon • 3rd September 2024 This Runner Is Completing a 100-Mile Ultramarathon in Every State—For Owls Ten years ago, Pete Ripmaster was running through the frozen Alaska woods in the middle of the night, lost and alone.
National Geographic • 14th December 2023 One unexpected way to reduce violent crime? Create green spaces. Darnell Ishmel’s street in Flint, Michigan, used to be lined with waist-high grass on vacant lots. The blight felt overwhelming, “to the point where I [didn’t] even want to walk outside,” he says.
The Seattle Times • 27th October 2023 A runner finds a sense of belonging on an Alaskan retreat for people of color I’M RUNNING THROUGH the woods in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula with about a dozen other people. The air is cool, and the trees’ leaves are shiny and wet from the morning’s rain.
Planet Detroit • 11th September 2023 House bills aim to protect Michigan’s pollinators – Planet Detroit Two bills introduced in the Michigan House are intended to save pollinators—and, by extension, help protect Michigan’s crops and biodiversity.
Outside Online • 7th September 2023 Alison Mariella Désir Leads BIPOC-Only Running Retreat in Alaska Ever since she founded Harlem Run in 2013, Alison Mariella Désir has been building community in the world of running—and uplifting people who are underrepresented in it. In August, she led a running retreat exclusively for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Alaska.
U-M Erb - • 7th April 2023 It’s time for the end of the fossil-fuel industry as we know it With climate change, “we are confronted with an existential crisis that requires radical action if we are to respond with adequate scope and scale,” Andrew J. Hoffman and Douglas M. Ely argue.
U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 31st March 2023 Justice should be an action, not only a core value The Erb Institute recently convened the workshop “Building Connections for Business, Sustainability & Justice Research,” bringing together scholars, corporate leaders and advocates to explore how research can inform solutions to pressing environmental, social and racial justice challenges.
Hidden Compass • 7th February 2023 Beyond the Waves Sitara Siverls is sitting at the bedside of a bald Caucasian man in a dimly lit intensive care unit (ICU) room, holding his hand. Outside in the hall, doctors and nurses move briskly.
Sustain.Life • 18th January 2023 Is there a problem with carbon removal technology? Carbon removal stories have become part of both climate and mainstream news—companies including Shopify, Stripe, Google, and Facebook are notable investors in new carbon removal technology. On the surface, carbon removal tech seems like it could be a magic wand for all our climate problems, but the reality is more complicated.
Belt Magazine - Dispatches From the Rust Belt and Greater Midwest • 30th November 2022 An Auto Plant Becomes a State Park Major investments in parks and green spaces in both Flint and Detroit are revitalizing former industrial sites and vacant lots, and helping both cities to recover from decades of economic decline.
