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Jumana Vasi: Healthy rivers essential to the Great Lakes
For over 25 years, the Mott Foundation has supported efforts to secure sustainable levels of clean water for people and the environment, with an emphasis on the Great Lakes region. In this Q&A, Environment Program Officer Jumana Vasi discusses our Great Lakes grantmaking priorities and support for efforts to restore the Flint River, which flows through the foundation’s hometown.
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The Flint: A good river with a bad reputation
Flint’s recent drinking water crisis cast the Flint River in an unflattering light — unfairly so, according to a biologist who has studied the waterway for over two decades. Despite some ongoing challenges, there are many indications that the overall health of the river is improving.
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Protecting freshwater while promoting prosperity
From June 12 to 14, the governors of the eight Great Lakes states and the premiers of two Canadian provinces will gather in the spirit of cooperation to forge an environmentally responsible plan to promote economic prosperity in the region. Learn more about the key issues, including our freshwater resources, to be addressed at this year’s leadership summit.
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Sam Passmore offers inside look at Mott’s new environment program plan
In a Q&A, Mott Environment Program Director Sam Passmore discusses the evolution of the Foundation’s environmental grantmaking and spotlights an exciting new focus area aimed at advancing climate change solutions.
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UM “Greenland Expedition” creates first polar weather station
A 1928 copy of the University of Michigan’s alumni magazine unlocks the tale of the Mott Foundation’s first environmental grant to establish a polar weather station. Today, Mott is still making grants to protect the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in North America and around the world.
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Strengthening sustainable development: A Q&A with Sandra Smithey and Traci Romine
While large-scale infrastructure projects in developing countries can bring energy and other resources to people in need, they also can present significant environmental, social and economic risks. Mott grantees engage the institutions that finance such projects, encouraging them to adopt standards that minimize risks and protect people, communities and the environment.
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Group’s clear focus: tackle water quality issues
More than one million people live or work within Wisconsin’s Root-Pike watershed, where 80% of their drinking water either comes from Lake Michigan or groundwater. Hence, protecting both water sources from contamination is critical – and the major focus of Root-Pike WIN, a Racine-based nonprofit organization.
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Grantmaking pumped new life into rivers, paved the way for restoration efforts nationwide
While hydropower dams create energy for communities, they can also put aquatic ecosystems at risk. For two decades, Mott grantees helped nurture a collaborative approach to preventing and repairing the negative effects of these dams, and the impacts of that work offer insights for addressing the challenges facing the world’s freshwater resources.
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Sam Passmore: The impacts of Mott’s dam relicensing grantmaking
For two decades, Mott funded efforts in the Great Lakes and Southeast regions of the U.S. to prevent and repair the negative effects of hydropower dams. Sam B. Passmore, director of Mott’s Environment Program, discusses the impacts of that grantmaking and its implications for the world’s “freshwater challenge.”
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Rio+20: Development projects sustaining people and planet?
Staff from the CASA Socio-Environment Fund, a Mott grantee, attended the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil.