Tag: EMBI
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UW-Green Bay Announces Sustainability and Earth Caretaker Awards
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On April 15, 2025 students, faculty, staff and alumni of UW-Green Bay were honored at the 2025 Sustainability Showcase and Earth Caretaker Award ceremony. Each year the campus celebrates by sharing campus sustainability efforts, and most importantly, by recognizing those individuals doing the work of sustainability on a daily basis. John Arendt, director of UW-Green…
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UW-Green Bay wins NSF Funds through WiSys-led partnership to develop a regional innovation engine to advance Sustainable Agriculture in Wisconsin
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UW-Green Bay has received funding to participate in a partnership aimed at developing a regional innovation engine to advance sustainable agriculture in Wisconsin. The UW-Green Bay initiative, led by Professor Michael Holly, will develop a land and water conservation focus group, survey stakeholders to prioritize research, generate concept designs, identify internships, and determine water focused…
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UW-Green Bay alumnus David Freedman, students, faculty and staff honored at the Earth Caretaker Awards
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Celebrating the university’s continued commitment to sustainability and honoring the community’s current and future problem-solvers, a number of students, faculty and staff were honored on Wednesday, April 19 at the Earth Caretaker Awards. Highlighting the event was the presentation of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Environmental Management and Business Institute (EMBI)‘s 13th annual Earth Caretaker Award to…
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You’re invited to the Earth Caretaker Award Ceremony!
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The Environmental Management and Business Institute and the Office of Sustainability are hosting the Earth Caretaker Award Ceremony April 19th, from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm in the Phoenix Rooms. Come celebrate the many accomplishments of students, staff, faculty, and alumni that have exemplified sustainability this past year. Hors d’oeuvres will be served. Fill out…
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Alumnus David L. Freedman named UW-Green Bay’s ‘Earth Caretaker’ for 2023
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Environmental Management and Business Institute (EMBI) will award the 13th annual Earth Caretaker Award to UW-Green Bay alumnus David L. Freedman. David’s academic journey started at UW-Green Bay in 1973, when he made the move from his hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts to Green Bay to join many other undergraduates from…
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UW-Green Bay authors lead peer-reviewed paper on soil health in the Great Lakes basin
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Prof. and Extension Specialist, Kevin Fermanich (Natural & Applied Sciences), Assistant Researcher, Molly Meyers (Environmental Management & Business Institute), Associate Prof. Karen Stahlheber (Biology), and Cofrin School of Business Dean, Mathew Dornbush, co-author a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Environmental Quality. The article, “Challenges in linking soil health to edge-of-field water quality across the…
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EMBI to support City of Green Bay Planning Grant
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The Environmental Management and Business Institute (EMBI) will be providing support for the City of Green Bay’s recently received $87,000 Comprehensive Energy Planning grant from the Public Service Commission. The grant was announced on Earth Day. John Arendt, Director of EMBI and a commissioner on the City of Green Bay’s Sustainability Commission, provided matching support…
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Alumnus Luc De Baere named UW-Green Bay’s ‘Earth Caretaker’ for 2022
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Environmental Management and Business Institute (EMBI) will award the 12th annual Earth Caretaker Award to UW-Green Bay alumnus Luc De Baere. The Belgian native obtained a bachelor’s in Chemistry (1978) and a master’s degree in Environmental Arts and Sciences with a focus on Waste Management (1980) at UW-Green Bay. De…
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Former Phoenix finds his niche and his passion in recycling
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Brent DuBois ’01 (Business Administration), president and owner of Logistics Recycling, Inc., is a man on a mission, with a philosophical twist on a venerable sustainability mantra: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Rethink. Rethink? Yes, rethink. Think differently about how and why we produce what we produce, package what we package, and buy what we buy. But…
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Local man launches composting program ‘Greener Bay Compost’ out of his backyard
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GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Cory Groshek is running Green Bay’s only curbside compost pickup service, right out of his backyard. “I make this easy, clean and convenient,” he said. “Those are the three things I hear from most of my subscribers.” After only two months, Groshek and his subscribers have already kept more than 2,000…