Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Civic science is a way for people in multiple locations to learn together as they each grow, care for, and study perennial grain crops. This page includes guides to silphium, perennial wheat, and sainfoin.

Delta Institute and our community partners performed a BioBlitz, an on-the ground assessment of existing flora and fauna, to create a baseline of biodiversity on four parcels within the South Shore neighborhood. This baseline data is the first step in accomplishing this project’s primary objectives: 1. Create a database of critical data measuring the impact […]

This document provides a snapshot of public farmland in Illinois and how it is currently managed. The information sheds light on the existing challenges and informs strategies for working with public institutional landowners to improve farmland management through their leasing programs.

Dow Fellows project, in partnership with Friends of the Shiawassee River, assessed the stormwater impacts of utility-scale solar developments in mid-Michigan. Team members explored the issue of runoff and water quality through the lens of modeling and policy analysis. The team’s findings support best practices, including vegetative groundcover, soil restoration, and collaborative local engagement with […]

The report warns that unchecked climate change will bring severe heat, higher energy costs, reduced labor productivity, crop losses, and more heat-related deaths across the Midwest’s economy unless aggressive mitigation and adaptation occur.

Public radio station providing journalism on environmental and agricultural issues in Missouri.

Confronting environmental change through research, education, and community collaboration

The Environmental Protection Network harnesses the expertise of over 650 former EPA career staff and political appointees from across the country to serve as a trusted resource, answering calls for objective analysis, scientific rigor, and a vision for a transformed 21st century EPA.

The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is commonly known by its acronym, GLIFWC. Formed in 1984, GLIFWC represents eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan who reserved hunting, fishing and gathering rights in the 1836, 1837, 1842, and 1854 Treaties with the United States government. GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation […]

GLISA works at the boundary between climate science and decision making, striving to enhance Great Lakes communities’ capacity to understand, plan for, and respond to climate impacts now and in the future.