Michigan’s Global CO2 Initiative
On April 11th of this year, the University of Michigan’s Global CO2 Initiative met for the first time, hosting a two-day workshop on developing CO2-based products. The
initiative aims to create solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create carbon negative technologies, while gauging public interest in the new technologies.
Some of the solutions include:
U-M scientists are developing
ways to convert carbon into
Polyurethene and
Polycarbonate materials.
U-M researchers are working to
convert excess carbon into micro
and macro-algae fuels.
Technologies are being created
to use carbon to create cement,
asphalt, and super hardwood for
construction purposes.
Carbon into Materials:
Carbon into Concrete:
Carbon into Fuels
and Chemicals:
The central goal of the initiative
is to create solutions that boost
the economy without harming
the environment.
Carbon Negative,
Dollar Positive:
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Alexander began working with
prisoners in the state of Michigan
in 1990, according to PCAP’s tribute
on their website. He conducted
his first theater workshop at the
Florence
Crane
Correctional
Facility, which led him to create his
Theater and Social Change class,
Janie said. This became PCAP, a
program which brings volunteers
from the University into prisons
to lead art education workshops,
including creative writing, theater,
painting and more.
Today, PCAP has an expansive
reach, with volunteers entering
27 adult correctional facilities,
several youth facilities, the Forensic
Psychiatric Center and a public
housing community each year. The
program grew from Alexander’s
determination to give incarcerated
people the opportunity to learn,
PCAP Associate Director Vanessa
Mayesky said.
“Buzz was really bringing up
this issue and demanding that
people talk about it and think about
it, and really think about the people
inside prisons as people, not as
mere problems to be swept under
the rug or perpetrators of crime,”
Mayesky said.
One of PCAP’s most notable
programs is the Annual Exhibition
of Art by Michigan Prisoners,
which
Janie
and
Alexander
created in 1996. Ari said he vividly
remembers his uncle driving to
numerous prisons in Michigan over
spring break to collect prisoners’
art.
“Buzz would get in a pickup
truck on his week off, and he would
drive to correctional facilities all
around Michigan, this huge state
in the middle of February in the
coldest darkest time of the year,
when he could have very easily
gone south to someplace warm,
could kick back and relax,” Ari
said. “He could have read books,
he could have done anything. But
this was his calling, and he sort of
had this feeling that because these
people are behind bars, if he didn’t
do this, no one else would.”
Stephen Hartnett, editor of
“Challenging the Prison-Industrial
Complex:
Activism,
Arts
and
Educational
Alternatives,”
said
people in the prison education field
looked up to Buzz.
“I think for most of us who
worked with him, not only was he a
mentor and a positive example, but
he was really kind of like a spiritual
example,” Hartnett said. “I mean,
all of us wanted to be more like
Buzz.”
Through PCAP and his classes,
Alexander inspired thousands of
students. Mayesky was one of those
students, and said many alumni
have been emailing about how
Alexander forever changed their
lives.
“Many of us have been writing
and talking about how Buzz
changed the course of our lives, and
how we would not be the people we
are today or doing the work that we
do if it weren’t for his teaching, if it
weren’t for his example, if it weren’t
for the questions he asked us,”
Mayesky said.
Sara
Falls,
a
high
school
English teacher in California, took
Alexander’s “What is Literature?”
and “Theater and Social Change”
classes at the University, the latter
involving improvisational theater
in prisons. Alexander’s readings
and discussions on prison justice
got her thinking more deeply about
how the education system can
create a pipeline to prison,
eventually compelling her to
become a teacher herself.
“He started to get me to
think about what it means to
be a teacher,” Falls said. “This
is my 20th year teaching, and
I don’t think I’d be a teacher if
it wasn’t for him. It’s my life’s
work, and I feel deeply called
to it, because it’s about finding
the power in young people and
helping them to use their voices
and helping them feel powerful
in themselves to make change.”
Melissa Palma, director of
curriculum
and
instruction
at Network Charter School
in Oregon, became deeply
involved
with
PCAP
for
six years while getting her
teaching
certificate
at
the
University. She had taken a
class with Alexander her senior
year, where she said Alexander
asked students to consider their
place in a system with a prison-
industrial complex. Palma said
though this was uncomfortable,
it was important in pushing
students to learn.
“He would always make it
go back to like, ‘What’s your part
in this? What’s your place? How
do you contribute to it or dismantle
this?’” Palma said. “He was always
asking us to personalize the
political really, and it was really
uncomfortable many times, and
students would be upset or crying
sometimes, but from, like, a very
vulnerable and safe space.”
David
Enders,
a
freelance
journalist, said he recalled moments
in Alexander’s class where students
had powerful realizations about
themselves and the privileges they
had.
“I remember more students kind
of having these ‘aha’ moments,
in Buzz’s courses than, like, any
other professor I had at Michigan,”
Enders said.
Alexander
inspired
Emily
Harris, who works at the Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights
in California, to pursue a career in
criminal justice and prison reform.
“PCAP and Buzz and his ability
to see what I was capable of has
pushed me to spend my life to get
people free,” Harris said. “It’s really
the most profound work, and I am
so lucky that my path intersected
with him and has given me a deep
level of meaning.”
Alexander’s efforts weren’t only
meant for student growth, however.
Through his workshops, he uplifted
thousands of Michigan prisoners.
Danny Valentine, an artist who
worked with Janie and Alexander
while still in prison, said Alexander
saved his life.
When
Alexander
entered
Valentine’s life, he was serving out
a 30-year sentence and could not
afford an attorney, Valentine said.
“I had made plans to kill myself,”
Valentine said. “I was going to
make my move when they called
the evening meal. But they passed
out mail right before evening chow.
I got this letter from this guy called
Buzz Alexander.”
Alexander wrote that he’d heard
Valentine was an artist, and asked
if he wanted to participate in an art
show he was putting on. Valentine
said he participated in the art show
for 20 years, each year giving him
an incentive to stay alive, as well
as giving him an income. When
he eventually got out of prison,
Alexander brought him to his home
and fed him blueberry pancakes.
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