Land and Food
Mike Garfield - July 22, 2019 interview
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6:22-9:00 - Mike talks about how land use and sprawl was an issue the Ecology Center was invovled with from the start, but that took off in the 90s and was on the mind of most everyone involved in local politics during that time.
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17:08-19:20 - Mike talks about the 1998 millage proposal to preserve farmland and stop sprawl and how their opponents spent huge amounts of money to defeat their large coalition
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25:10-27:18 - Mike discusses what happened after the loss in 1998 and all the different land preservation and sprawl proposals that were succesfully passed.
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31:00-32:46 - Mike talks about how their proposal in 2000 had the support of their opponents from 1998 and since it was passed has saved 1,000s of acres of natural areas throughout Washtenaw county.
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33:23-35:17 - Mike discusses where the idea for the greenbelt inititiative came from and how it recreated the tensions from 1998.
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39:50-42:35 - Mike talks about how the greenbelt proposal was a success and the impact that it has had.
Mike Garfield - November 1, 2019 interview
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11:32-13:51 - Mike discusses the 1998 land preservation ballot proposal and how, despite a huge coalition of support, it was defeated by ads run funded by real estate companies.
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15:44-17:50 - Mike discusses the 2003 Greenbelt proposal and how it was passed, despite similar opposition to that they faced with the failed 1998 land preservation proposal.
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18:24-19:05 - Mike talks about how the successful 2003 Greenbelt proposal incentivized townships around Ann Arbor to adopt similar programs and how all those townships together have $100 million dollars to save land throughout Washtenaw county.
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22:00-24:18 - Mike discusses how the greenbelt program was highly controversial, but once in place was very popular and has overtime saved huge amounts of farmland and natural areas.
Liz Brater - September 26, 2019 interview
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8:06-9:40 - Liz discusses the Gelman Sciences controversy and how the city council of Ann Arbor fought them over the levels of dioxane with which they were contaminating ground water.
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20:00-21:25 - Liz discusses how under Governor Engler Michigan's toxics clean-up standard was changed and increased the cancer risk for Michigan citizens 10x.
Lana Pollack - August 21, 2019 interview
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22:55 - 25:15 - Lana talks about the 1998 land use proposal, why it failed, and how they learned from it to make the successive proposals successful.
David Dempsey - August 20, 2019 interview
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20:37 - 21:55 - David discusses fish advisories, how they were reduced under Engler, and how the Ecology Center's advocacy was effective in pulling public attention and expanding advisories, especially to low income and minority communities.
Michael Schechtman - November 17, 2017 interview
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27:10 - 29:19 - Mike discusses the organic garden the Ecology Center set up on UMich North Campus and how it had a wider community impact despite being built over.