In 2022, volunteers collected over 8,000 pounds of trash on the island.
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State regulators approve settlement in DTE’s long-term energy plan. Here’s what it means.
The deal includes assistance for bills, energy efficiency and renewables for low-income households, but leaves questions open on outage compensation, community solar and affordability, advocates say.
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Analysis: Detroit among most impacted cities in the country for the urban heat island effect
Meanwhile, ‘heat domes’ raise Michigan temps and drive powerful storms. Here’s how.
Posted inCommunity
Poem: the pulled card is a toppling tower
views of the new condo development
are revealed branch by falling branch
with plastic bags caught like
futile parachutes
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Poem: Visiting the Riverwalk with Heraclitus
With each step I take
my voice sounds more foreign.
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Poem: Disappointed in Joe
Too beautiful of a morning
to once again realize
I can’t always trust humans to have humanity.
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Poem: Branches of the Willow
Resilience —
passed down through generations,
the gentleness of swaying.
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Poem: Time
We are cut like the melon, made of mush,
drowning in the sweet, thick summer stick
of the mind that keeps churning.
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Wright Museum, College for Creative Studies partner on ‘d.Tree’ exhibit
The partnership explores how urban trees that must be removed due to age, severe weather or redevelopment can be repurposed.