This story from Lansing-based Fox28 highlights the launch of a food scraps pilot program that Delta is leading in partnership with the city's Live Green Lansing initiative and Hammond Farms. The program is funded by the Michigan Department f Environmental Quality.
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From Brownfield to Beauty
How do we use trees to clean up soil? With funding from the U.S. Forest Service, we made a video that shows you how we've transformed 11 acres of vacant brownfields in Muskegon, MI into urban tree farms using fast-growing poplar trees that clean up soil while...
Delta Institute Partnership with Iroquois Valley Farms Awarded USDA Conservation Innovation Grant
On September 8, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service awarded Iroquois Valley Farms a three-year Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) of $944,715 to support its partnership with Delta Institute to develop and launch an innovative investment vehicle for soil...
“Steel City Salvage” at work in Gary, IN
In this radio segment, Lakeshore Public Radio's Chris Nolte interviews Delta's Eve Pytel about our Steel City Salvage project, funded by the 2016 Knight Cities Challenge.
Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival
This Green Building Advisor blog post discusses the strategies that rust belt cities are experimenting with in order to deal with disinvestment. Delta's Knight Foundation funded materials reuse facility was highlighted.
Switching to switchgrass? Study models soil impact of biofuel crops
This Midwest Energy News article highlights a study that modeled how an increasing amount of biofuel production would impact the soil's ability to store carbon, and quotes Delta's Ryan Anderson. Read the article.
Delta’s Work on Little Village Brownfields Published by Geo-Chicago
Delta Institute’s Margaret Renas and Ben Shorofsky were recently published in the 2016 proceedings of Geo-Chicago: Sustainability, Energy, and the Geoenvironment. Their paper, titled “Community-Based Prioritization of a Brownfield Site Inventory for Redevelopment,”...
New faces and new roles in the Delta network
Say hello to new Delta staff David Lezaks Senior Specialist, Ecosystems David is a Senior Specialist in the Ecosystems practice here at Delta where he manages a portfolio of projects that focuses on building a more regenerative economy. He is a strategic planner and...
Kansas State University Engineers to engage Chicagoans in air pollution monitoring
This Kansas State University news release, published by EurekAlert, highlights Delta's partnership with KSU, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, University of Illinois at Chicago, Alliance for a Greener South Loop, Respiratory Health Association,...
Getting Down to the Roots: Why Soil Matters for Climate Stabilization (and More)
This blog post by Delta's ecological economist Ryan Anderson originally appeared on The Climate Trust's blog on July 26, 2016 Following 2015’s designation as the International Year of Soils by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, soil carbon sequestration is...
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