Ann Arbor City Council has approved a resolution to kickstart negotiations with DTE and other utilities as it works to transition the city's heating to clean energy in the coming years.

Attendees can join a parade (costumes encouraged!), get a stamp for free ice cream at Washtenaw Dairy, meet Leslie Science & Nature Center’s birds of prey, listen to artist Ki5 and play games to win prizes.

On Tuesday, Ann Arbor for Public Power (A2P2) will rally at Larcom City Hall at 5:30 p.m. to protest the nomination of Knox Cameron to the Ann Arbor Energy Commission.

Learn more about the grassroots effort to bring a community-owned utility to Ann Arbor at an event this weekend.

Share your thoughts with the city about creating a Sustainable Energy Utility.

The city's Green Fair will take over Main Street on Friday evening.

Three winners have been named in the City of Ann Arbor sustainability-focused “Saving Energy” sticker design contest.

The public can vote on winning designs in three categories; K-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

Until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 13, young artists can enter the “Save Energy” sticker design contest promoting carbon footprint reduction and saving energy.

“Through implementation of the carbon neutrality plan, U-M will provide a model for taking early action to avoid the most adverse impacts of climate change. An institution can achieve carbon neutrality by offsetting the emissions it creates with emissions it removes. Establish, by 2025, carbon neutrality goal dates for Scope 3 emissions categories that are set for no later than 2040. Ad“I applaud the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality for leveraging the strengths of our university and broader community to bring forward a comprehensive report. “Our community comprises more than 100,000 students, staff and faculty, and our path toward carbon neutrality requires that they all feel empowered, represented and responsible.

General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that. The Detroit automaker's push into electric vehicles has gone into overdrive this year. By the end of 2025, 40% of its U.S. models will be battery electric vehicles. It's also working with others, including the Environmental Defense Fund, to build out the necessary infrastructure to power its electric vehicles and to promote their use. It wants to be seen as a clean vehicle company, rather than a builder of cloud-spewing gas-powered pickups and SUVs.

She joined fellow demonstrators outside the Swedish Parliament on Friday to kick off a day of socially distanced global climate protests. Thunberg started her solo protests outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm on Aug. 20, 2018. Climate protests are also planned elsewhere on Friday. The protests started earlier in the Arctic, when British climate activist and ornithologist Mya-Rose Craig, stood on a piece of ice broken off from the ice cap. The 18-year-old bird lover and founder of the non-profit Black2Nature said she believes it’s the most northerly climate strike ever.