Advancing Climate Solutions Locally: How Health Professionals Can Engage

While most attention is on the role that the federal or state governments play in climate policy, implementation of the infrastructure needed for a clean energy transition is entirely done at the local level. For the last decade Sarah Mills and her team at the UM Center for EmPowering Communities has helped Michigan local governments across the urban-rural spectrum navigate the clean energy transition. In this talk, she'll reflect on that work, sharing practical lessons about how health professionals might constructively advocate at the local level for climate action: whether for the equitable build-out of wind or solar farms, or building more climate-conscious housing in walkable neighborhoods.

Our Speaker: Dr. Sarah Mills

Dr. Sarah Mills is a professor of practice at the University of Michigan's Urban & Regional Planning program and the Director of UM's Center for EmPowering Communities.  Grounded in cutting-edge social science and deep community engagement,…