{"id":2405,"date":"2024-02-27T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:37:57","slug":"february-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/february-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"February Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Month&#8217;s Theme: Sustainable Food Systems<\/p>\n<p>Food loss and waste is estimated to be roughly one third of the food intended for human consumption in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>ANNOUNCING: Ann Arbor\/Washtenaw 2030 District and RESTART are launching a collaboration in 2024 to<br \/>\nprovide energy and water efficiency assessments for commercial food service establishments in Washtenaw County.<\/p>\n<p>Use these calculators to see your foodprint<\/p>\n<p>Local Food &#8211; CSA, Farmers Markets Etc.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing food waste at the local level: guidance for municipalities to reduce food waste within local food systems<\/p>\n<p>Waste MAP (Waste Methane Assessment Platform)<\/p>\n<p>Common Ground Film Trailer: Regenerative farming practices improving soil health and sequestering carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Resources and Tips for reducing food waste at home: from planning, to shopping and storing &#8211; plus recipes!<\/p>\n<p>Events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lunch and Learn: Implementing the A<sup>2<\/sup>ZERO Carbon Neutrality Plan Session 2: All Electric Food Service<br \/>\nPlanning &amp; Design for Sustainability &#8211; Case Study: UM New Central Campus Residential Development Food Service<\/li>\n<li>EIBC PUBLIC CONVENING | State Implementation &#8211; Home Energy Rebate Program<\/li>\n<li>SUSTAINABILITY SERIES: OSI is bringing the Sustainability Series back for another season at the downtown branch of AADL!<\/li>\n<li>Multi- Family Quarterly Group Meeting: Improve the efficiency of your apartment building at turnover.<\/li>\n<li>The Future of Distributed Energy Systems &#8211; BOMA Conference &#8211; Washington DC<\/li>\n<li>Second Annual Climate Teach-In: Build Your Climate Action Toolkit<\/li>\n<li>2024 Hot Water Forum &amp; Hot Air Forum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conquer the Cold Challenge<\/li>\n<li>Schedule of MPSC Meeting Dates<\/li>\n<li>A<sup>2<\/sup>ZERO AMBASSADOR APPLICATION NOW OPEN!<\/li>\n<li>DTE EnergySmarts | Winter 2024 Article &#8220;Stay Cool With Refrigeration Rebates&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University Towers<\/li>\n<li>Samaritas<\/li>\n<li>Ann Arbor Elks James L. Crawford Lodge<\/li>\n<li>SEAS Team &#8211; Restaurant and Bar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Member Resources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EGLE announces 2024 energy grants open for applications<\/li>\n<li>Energy Management Grants<\/li>\n<li>City of Ann Arbor Benchmarking Ordinance 2023<\/li>\n<li>DTE\u2019s MIGreen Power Plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Ann-Arbor-Washtenaw-2030-District-Feb-2024-Newsletter.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Ann Arbor Washtenaw 2030 District Feb 2024 Newsletter<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Month&#8217;s Theme: Sustainable Food Systems Food loss and waste is estimated to be roughly one third of the food intended for human consumption in the United States. ANNOUNCING: Ann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2030districts.org\/annarbor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}