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Poem: Lights Out

by Rachel Udabe July 24, 2023July 19, 2024

Darkness.
Scamper to the window,
Swipe aside the dusty curtain.

Posted inCommunity

Poem: Disappointed in Joe

by Stella Hughes July 24, 2023July 19, 2024

Too beautiful of a morning
to once again realize
I can’t always trust humans to have humanity.

Posted inCommunity

Poem: Branches of the Willow

Avatar photo by Courtney Burk July 24, 2023July 19, 2024

Resilience —
passed down through generations,
the gentleness of swaying.

Posted inCommunity

Poem: Time

by Jacqueline Suskin July 24, 2023July 19, 2024

We are cut like the melon, made of mush,
drowning in the sweet, thick summer stick
of the mind that keeps churning.

Posted inCommunity

Wright Museum, College for Creative Studies partner on ‘d.Tree’ exhibit

Avatar photo by Angela Lugo-Thomas July 24, 2023January 19, 2024

The partnership explores how urban trees that must be removed due to age, severe weather or redevelopment can be repurposed.

Posted inCommunity

State commits $100,000 to develop plan for reducing food waste in Michigan

Avatar photo by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak July 20, 2023January 19, 2024

The project is set to slice food waste and dish out a lower carbon footprint for the state’s food industry.

Air pollution over a body of water in Detroit.
Posted inAccountability

Metro Detroit’s worst ozone year in a decade sparks Sierra Club lawsuit against EPA

Avatar photo by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak July 20, 2023January 19, 2024

At issue is how much of the ozone problem is due to wildfire smoke.

Posted inCommunity

City crushes developer’s plan to crush concrete in Core City

by Jena Brooker, BridgeDetroit July 18, 2023January 19, 2024

More than 30 residents spoke in opposition of the project Monday morning; no one spoke in support. Roughly 120 people attended the hearing online and 25 in person.

Posted inSolutions

The EPA’s plan to eliminate lead in buildings is a ‘gigantic leap forward’ for public health

Avatar photo by Grist July 18, 2023January 19, 2024

Those who live in low-income neighborhoods and in older homes are at the highest risk.

Posted inAccountability

Record air pollution, Canadian wildfires prompts state to change how it issues air quality alerts

Avatar photo by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak July 16, 2023May 17, 2024

In the wake of an EPA decision in May to ease air quality restrictions in metro Detroit, the region is experiencing its highest number of Ozone-related air quality notifications in a decade, as well as a new type of alert related to particulate matter.

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