Updates
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Today I had the pleasure of being the emcee for the first ever a2tech360 Sustainable Future Forum. Laura Berarducci and the team at Ann Arbor SPARK put together a great program of talks from sustainability leaders and innovators. We learned from Sartorius, Toyota North America, Wacker Chemical, and the University of Michigan. We cheered on…
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Join me at Sustainable Future Forum, a2Tech360’s first sustainability event! We will hear about successful sustainability initiatives at international companies (Sartorius and Wacker Chemical), green tech entrepreneurs including Shantonio Burch from ThermoVerse, and cheer the City of Ann Arbor’s green business challenge award winners. I will emcee. See you there! Update – we had a…
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In Jan 2024, Rob Pasick’s Leaders Connect held a panel discussion on environmental leadership with Phil Roos, the Director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Timothy Dekker, PhD PE, the CEO of LimnoTech, and Lisa Wozniak, the Executive Director of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters
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My previous posted elsewhere entry did not include at least one thing I’m really proud of, so I wanted to extend that list here. Through Matterhorn’s work, we got to know and collaborated with John T. Matthias on an article for the NCSC‘s 2020 Trends in State Courts. In the piece, we discuss how our…
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In late September, 2020, it was finally time to dye my wool and Kelly’s thread with the pokeberries. After gathering pokeberries for two months, we had collected over 2.5 kg (over 5 lbs) of berries. We took our stored berries out of our freezers the night before to thaw them. Preparing the pokeberries It was…
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My sister’s father-in-law told someone that I “got my Ph.D. in weeds.” He’s not wrong. I studied native and non-native old-field plants in SE Michigan. This usually doesn’t really help when he or a friend has a question about a weed in Tennessee…but it does help me to notice the plants in the margins around…
