Graham Sustainability Institute

Opportunity

Join the October Coffee Talk

Explore what’s next for the Great Lakes Compact and connect with experts shaping resilient water futures across the region.

Apply Now! Michigan Community Climate Action Fellowship

U-M undergrads: Spend next summer with a Michigan climate organization, gaining experience and building your career!

Apply by Nov. 2

Get Involved in Campus Sustainability

Complete the Planet Blue Ambassador online training to learn about sustainability efforts at U-M and how you can contribute.

Become an Ambassador

News

8/14/2026 - MBGNA: Line 5 Saga Continues by Mike Shriberg

7/15/2026 - Planet Blue Ambassadors Welcome Incoming Students During Orientation

6/2/2026 - MDARD, EGLE and DNR Release Annual Report of the Domestic Action Plan for Lake Erie

In the Media

9/3/2026 - Circle of Blue: Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Name Change Disrupts Cross-Border Management and Overwrites Native History ft. Mike Shriberg

8/28/2026 - CBC: Despite Trump's Renaming of Lake Ontario, Great Lakes Endure as Symbol of U.S.-Canada Collaboration ft. Mike Shriberg

8/28/2026 - National Post: Why This Canada-U.S. Pipeline Has Emerged as a Midterm Election Issue in the U.S. Midwest ft. Mike Shriberg

Upcoming Events

Graham-Sponsored Events

Oct

Water@Michigan Coffee Talk: Future Proofing the Great Lakes Compact and Beyond 10/5/2026 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Oct

Webinar: How Capacity Building Grants Facilitate Future Collaboration 10/13/2026 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

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U-M Sustainability Courses

EAS 648 | Advanced Geovisualization

Visuals are becoming increasingly important for communicating and understanding environmental and sustainability issues. In this course, we will employ an open data science approach to geovisualizations, bringing greater interactivity and knowledge discovery to the highly spatial challenges that we encounter in our professional and research domains. We will learn techniques for extracting insights from spatial data for better communication of our results.

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News

In the Media

Upcoming Events

Graham-Sponsored Events

Enhancing Collaborative Research

Developing Sustainability Leaders

Informing Policy and Practice

Climate

Water

Communities

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