September 18, 2020
Posted inSolutions
Making a home for fish and wildlife in the Detroit River’s ‘Conservation Crescent’
Grosse Ile resident Bert Urbani was looking out her window several years ago when she spotted 19 bald eagles fishing in the partially frozen-over Detroit River. “When you see a sight like that, it carries weight,” says Urbani, who also works as communications co-chair for the Grosse Ile Nature and Land Conservancy. Grosse Ile is […]
Posted inGuides
Here’s your fall sustainable shopping guide
“I’ve always believed clothes have stories behind them and should live more than one life if they’re physically able to.” – Corliss Elizabeth Williams, proprietor of the Lowry Estate. The annual farewell to summer and embrace of fall is typically marked by a collective feeling of novelty and excitement. Back-to-school shopping is a staple of […]
Posted inCommunity
SPONSORED: Let’s fight hunger this September with fresh produce.
This post is sponsored by Taste The Local Difference, your resource for local food & farms. September is Hunger Action Month, a national movement to raise awareness about hunger in the United States and the policies and systems that can combat it. This year, the efforts are even more pressing, especially in Michigan. Due to […]
Posted inVoices
OPINION: ‘Life in the Cracks’ matters now, more than ever
With the ongoing tragedies of the global pandemic, the police brutality and uprisings for Black life, the slide towards fascism, the increasing upheavals of climate change, and the cracking apart of capitalist American culture —is all happening at the same time. Are you stressed out? Exhausted? Me too. You might be wondering why I thought […]
Posted inAccountability
Community raises concern about FCA expansion, call for better testing and community benefits
Community residents raised concerns about a permit request submitted by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for both their Detroit Assembly Complex Mack Plant and their Jefferson North Assembly Plant (JNAP) in an online hearing held Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). The request was to make modifications to the assembly […]
Posted inAccountability
Did Michigan violate civil rights law with its permit to US Ecology?
In November of 2018, an explosion at a US Ecology facility just outside Grand View, Idaho, population 450, killed one person and injured three. The official cause for the incident was identified as “non-conforming waste in the treatment process” or a chemical reaction caused by materials that weren’t supposed to be there. “Most of the […]
Posted inAccountability
Jamesa Johnson-Greer: A conversation on why poor communities will suffer the most from climate change
Since the murder of George Floyd and the rise of Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the U.S., many institutions — even those without an obvious connection to this broader movement — have begun to reflect on the racial inequities within their fields. That’s no different for environmental organizations, which have traditionally been led […]