Ann Arbor's Ecology Center, along with 3,000 petitioners, are trying to convince U-M to turn the largest sports stadium in North America into the largest sustainable sports stadium in the world.
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"In 2009, University of Michigan students completed a feasibility assessment of a stadium solar project, estimating that an installation could divert 776 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Ecology Center's campaign is asking University officials to move beyond feasibility assessments by engaging with Michigan's solar manufacturers and developing a project to offset some of the stadium's electricity use and feed it back into the grid during times when the stadium isn't used."
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