Green and Blue Network

CMF’s Green & Blue Network recently held its meeting at MSU Tollgate Education Farm Center in Novi and grantmakers learned about sustainable agricultural programs and place-based environmental education.

Land protection efforts involving Michigan’s critical dunes are only one part of a larger system of conservation action that is needed if Michigan is to succeed in saving these natural wonders, advises Helen Taylor, state director of The Nature Conservancy.

Finding new ways to discuss the issue of – and solutions for - climate change is key to moving the effort forward environmental experts shared at a recent CMF Green and Blue Network meeting.

Helping lead a groundbreaking, pilot watershed research project in Michigan is a small group of family foundations – and one major grantmaker – which are providing funding to the Ann Arbor-based Huron River Watershed Council (HRWC) for its initiative entitled: “Making Climate Resilient Communities through a Watershed Approach.”