Planet Detroit is seeking a dynamic Community Engagement & Partnerships Manager to lead our community engagement initiatives. In this role, you’ll initiate and maintain positive working relationships with community organizations and pursue opportunities to expand our reach and engagement. You’re a natural connector, a keen communicator and self-starter with experience in community- and coalition-building, along […]
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Detroit farming organizations receive multi-year support to teach Detroit youth and families how to grow their own food
Philanthropic funding totaling $900,000 will sustain food sovereignty programming for the next two years Two Detroit food security innovators got a boost this week with multi-year funding from Rite Aid Healthy Futures, a charity arm of the familiar corner drugstore. Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) and Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) received $500,000 and […]
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Climate change speeding up, A GM boondoggle, Should Michigan nuclear plant shutter?
CO2 2022/2021 419.63 ppm / 416.51 ppm TAKE OUR READER SURVEY HERE! Break glass: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report, the climate crisis is rapidly accelerating, speeding up the damage from droughts, floods, and wildfires as well as displacing people and putting food and water supplies at risk. “Any further delay […]
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Transformational change is coming to how people live on Earth, UN climate adaptation report warns: Which path will humanity choose?
By: Edward R. Carr Governments have delayed action on climate change for too long, and incremental changes in energy and food production will no longer be enough to create a climate-resilient future, a new analysis from scientists around the world warns. The world is already seeing harmful impacts from climate change, including extreme storms, heat waves and […]
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LIVE: Climate neutrality, carbon capture, and environmental justice
TAKE THE READER SURVEY HERE! The state of Michigan, the University of Michigan, General Motors, and other entities have crafted climate goals centering around the idea of carbon neutrality or net-zero emissions. We talk with Wake Smith, Yale Professor and Climate Intervention Researcher and Juan Jhong-Chung, Climate Justice Director, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, to understand […]
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From the headlines— February 21-25, 2022
Rate hike: The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) will increase wholesale water rates 3.7% and sewer rates 2.4% in July, triggering rate hikes in the 88 communities it serves across Metro Detroit. Similar hikes are planned for the following year, and GLWA projections show a need for 3% hikes for the fiscal years of 2025 to 2027. “If […]
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Biden funding infusion launches decades overdue clean up of toxic Detroit River
EPA targets 2030 cleanup; advocates say that’s ‘ambitious’ Has the time finally come to clean up the toxic sediment in the Detroit River that remains as legacy pollutants from the peak industrial era? That’s approximately 3.5 million cubic yards of sediment, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A successful cleanup could lead to the […]
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How can Detroit’s community gardeners avoid losing their investment in land they don’t own?
Solutions for securing rights to vacant lots stewarded by residents may include community land trusts, purchase programs This story is published in partnership with Outlier Media. Last summer, Sherrie Smith was confused and upset when she received an email saying the garden she’d been tending for three years would be destroyed. She had started growing […]
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Auburn Hills votes to opt out of SMART bus service
For the past two years, Christina Cowart has relied on the bus to get to and from her retail job selling baby clothes at the Great Lakes Crossing mall in Auburn Hills. The Pontiac resident takes the bus from the Phoenix Center to a bus stop on Baldwin on the west side of the massive […]
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Projects aim to stop flooding of homes, businesses
By JADA PENNCapital News Service LANSING — The Great Lakes Water Authority plans to increase the ability of its water and wastewater systems to cope with flooding and other severe weather conditions under a capital improvement plan to be carried out over five years, according to its media representative, Molly Young. The investment will consist […]