Thursday night kicked off 
the ninth annual Sustainable 
Ann Arbor forum, a series of 
monthly events from January 
to April focused on the city’s 
Sustainability 
Framework 
hosted by the Ann Arbor 
District Library. 

This 
month’s 
forum 
focused on the energy sector, 
with a panel of five experts 
in the field of sustainable 
energy each presenting on 
their 
respective 
areas 
of 
focus. About 60 community 
members attended the event.
Josh 
MacDonald, 
the 
city’s 
energy 
coordinator, 
moderated the panel and 
began with a presentation 
about A2Zero, an initiative by 

the city of Ann Arbor to work 
towards the city’s goal of 
achieving carbon neutrality 
by 
2030. 
MacDonald 
explained how the group 
plans to combine community 
feedback, 
technology 
advisory 
committees 
and 
partner 
organizations 
to 
develop a finalized plan that 
will be presented to City 
Council in March. 
“This 
involves 
the 
community 
directly, 
so 
we want to make sure that 
whatever we’re doing, we’re 
constantly getting feedback 
from 
the 
community,” 
MacDonald 
said. 
“It 
not 
only helps us to get a sense 
of what you all are thinking 
as far as greenhouse gas 
reductions, it also helps us to 
introduce these ideas to you 
and get feedback as to what 
you think about them.”
A2Zero hosted a town hall 
in November and has put 
out two surveys so far for 
community feedback. The 
second town hall and final 
survey will take place in 
February. 
Following 
MacDonald’s 
introduction, each panelist 
gave a presentation on their 
work 
with 
A2Zero 
and 
explained their individual 
efforts 
to 
reduce 
carbon 
neutrality. 
Panelists 
represented 
a 
variety 
of 
interests 
related 
to 
the 
energy 
sector 
from 
the 
state, DTE Energy and the 
University of Michigan. 
Chuck 
Hookham, 
a 
member of the Ann Arbor 
Energy 
Commission 
and 
the 
Michigan 
Board 
of 
Professional 
Engineers, 
presented on viable steps 
the energy sector can take 
to 
move 
toward 
carbon 
neutrality. He discussed the 
obstacles posed by the design 

of the infrastructure of Ann 
Arbor’s 
current 
energy 
system and the difficulties of 
adapting that system to more 
renewable energy.
“We’re trying to move as 
quick as we can,” Hookham 
said. 
“We 
have 
to 
keep 
your rates low — I don’t 
think anyone wants twice 
the electric bill, do you? I 
don’t think anybody wants 
interruption 
of 
heating 
in 
their 
house. 
These 
transitions we take on have 
to be done prudently but 
quickly, because we all know 
we don’t have much time.”
Susan 
Fancy, 
program 
manager for research and 
commercialization 
at 
the 
University’s 
Global 
CO2 
Initiative, spoke about what 
institutions can do to reduce 
their carbon footprint, giving 
examples of initiatives at the 
University and other colleges 
nationwide. 
Fancy’s recommendations 
included 
forgoing 
fossil 
fuels, upgrading buildings 
to low-emissions standards 
and creating a culture of 
sustainability. 
She 
also 
spoke 
to 
the 
importance 
of 
restructuring 
energy 
systems with social justice in 
mind. 
“Our 
current 
energy 
systems are really regressive, 
at least historically they have 
been; 
unfortunately, 
the 
emissions and what-have-
you tend to hit the people 
with the smallest voice and 
the 
smallest 
pocketbook,” 
Fancy said. “And so as we 
reinvent 
the 
emissions 
systems, it’s really important 
to do that through the lens of 
social justice so that we don’t 
repeat that mistake.” 

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