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Welcome
About the Research Team
Building a Movement
1. Building an Environmental Community
Becoming a Community Resource
Educating Ann Arbor's Youth
Raising Funds, Raising Awareness: Bike-A-Thon
2. Early Recycling Demonstrations
Establishing Ann Arbor's First Recycling Program
Curbside Recycling
Returning to Returnables
Ann Arbor Non-Returnable Beverage Container Ordinance of 1973
Michigan Bottle Bill of 1976
3. Community Organic Garden
Growing the Garden Movement
Cultivating Environmental Awareness
4. Ann Arbor Community
Briarwood Mall and Land Use Debates
Downtown Park at Main and Huron
Developing Energy Curriculum
Reforming Public Transportation
Recycling + Zero Waste
1980s
Merger with Recycle Ann Arbor
Expanding Curbside Recycling
Expanding "Recyclables"
Solid Waste Management
1990s
Revitalizing Recycle Ann Arbor
The Fight Over Phase III: Ann Arbor’s Landfill Crisis
Composting and Commercial Recycling
Toronto Trash and Return to Sender
2000s
Fighting Imported Trash
Recycle Ann Arbor in the New Millennium
A Bigger, Better Bottle Bill
2010s
Health + Justice
1980s
Giving Workers and Communities the Right to Know
Household Toxics Awareness
Dioxane Discovered from Gelman Sciences
1990s
Expanding Grassroots Toxics Organizing
The Origins of Health Care without Harm in Southeast Michigan
Negotiating a Cleanup with Gelman Sciences
2000s
Taking on Incinerators to Fight Toxins
Spotlight on the Central Wayne Incinerator Campaign
Dow Chemical and Corporate Accountability
Fighting Groundwater Contamination
Lindane and Legal Battles
Clean Car Campaign
Healthy Toys
2010s
Testing for Toxins through Healthy Stuff
Health Leaders Fellowship
Energy + Climate
1980s
Home Energy Works
Nonprofit Energy Works
1990s
Working with Community: Environmental Justice Coalitions
Working with Labor: A Green-Blue Connection
Working with Industry: The Auto Project
2000s
Engler Administration Rollbacks
Fuel Efficiency and Vehicle Innovation
Government Suppression of Data
Clean Energy and Power
2010s
Organizing Local Climate Action
Land + Food
1980s
Pesticide Task Force
Transportation Planning
1990s
Anti-Pesticides Advocacy Continues
Demanding Stronger Fish Advisories
Anti-Sprawl I: Natural Features Ordinances
Anti-Sprawl II: PDR and Proposal 1
2000s
Anti-Sprawl III: Natural Areas Preservation
Anti-Sprawl IV: The Greenbelt
2010s
Institutional Food Systems
Community Food Systems
Generational Transformation
1980s
Developing Curricula for Ann Arbor Public Schools
Groundwater Education (GEE-WOW!)
1990s
Earth Day XX
GEE-WOW! Takes Off
New Facilities for Recycling Education
2000s
Toxins Awareness and Education
Go! Outdoors and In-School Education
2010s
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Green Elephant Sale
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Green Elephant Sale, 1972
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Green Elephant Sale
