View on Instagram>>> Find your way to this park! Maheras Gentry Park Summer weather is finally here, and this weekend at Maheras Gentry Park there were lots of people enjoying themselves! A colleague and past Planet Detroit journalist Jena Booker gave me a tour of this park located at 12550 Avondale Street. She’d heard that […]
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From the Headlines – May 10-14, 2021
Still flowing: Petroleum continues to flow through Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, despite Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s order that the company shut it down by May 12. Here’s the latest on the situation: Enbridge said that only the federal government has the power to shut down Line 5. But the U.S. State Department stated that the […]
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Zug Island: Reflections on an industrial icon in President Biden’s utopian future
An “idled” steel mill hangs by a thread as President Biden bets big on his futuristic infrastructure plan We’re in a period of transformation, it seems. I added the qualifier because in the era of Covid-19, not much is certain. We’re barely four years past former President Donald Trump’s retreat from environmental protection. A retreat […]
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PARKS REPORT: Skinner Playfield
View on Instagram >>> Find your way to this park! Skinner Playfield Denby students, teachers and neighbors recreated Skinner Playfield This week I’ve taken the first request to check out a park from one of our readers ! We love when our adventurers get involved! Beau recommended we visit Skinner Playfield located at 12800 Kelly […]
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MPSC considers requiring utilities to account for public health costs of future electricity generation
Electricity generation from coal and gas-fired power plants exact an inequitable health cost that utilities should account for when planning for the future. That’s according to testimony submitted on April 28 to the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) by the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center on behalf of 23 individuals and organizations. MPSC opened the […]
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From the Headlines – May 3 – 7, 2021
Heatwaves and blackouts: A new study examines the risk for concurrent blackouts and heatwaves in Detroit, Phoenix, and Atlanta, finding that power failures have increased by more than 60% since 2015. “A widespread blackout during an intense heatwave may be the deadliest climate-related event we can imagine,” said Brian Stone Jr., a professor at the School of City & […]
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PARKS REPORT: Fishing of the avian and human kinds at Henderson Park and Marina
View on Instagram >>> Erma Henderson Park Henderson Park and Marina is nestled between the historic Whittier Manor and the towering Jeffersonian Houze Apartment complex located at 8800 E. Jefferson. The park takes its name after Erma Henderson, who was the first Black woman to serve on the City Council. As a distinguished social servant, […]
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Michigan’s energy activists start to see decade of work pay off in Highland Park
Republished with permission from Energy News Network. Soulardarity is increasingly finding a seat at the table in official conversations about Highland Park’s energy future — a contrast with its early days when city leaders largely dismissed them as noisemakers. In 2011, the streets of Highland Park, Michigan, went dark. DTE Energy repossessed around 1,000 streetlights […]
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COVID-19 revealed Detroit’s public and environmental health inequities. Here’s how.
Thomasenia Weston and her two grandchildren don’t get much protection from the truck traffic and air pollution inundating her neighborhood at the intersection of West Vernor Highway and Livernois. “My house does not feel like my home,” Weston told Planet Detroit. “My house feels like I’m on the freeway.” Weston points to the Marathon Refinery, […]
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