Mayor Mike Duggan named Tepfirah Rushdan as Detroit’s first Director of Urban Agriculture, following other major U.S. cities like Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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Detroit Pizza Bar ‘built for the future’
The restaurant is the community’s first Black-owned pizza spot and the first sit-down establishment the area has seen for over 30 years. Plus- it has solar panels!
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Stellantis: ‘There was never a problem with the air’
Stellantis says new pollution control technology installed to address odors at its Mack plant is working as designed, and the facility has never posted a health risk – despite more than a hundred complaints and eight air quality violations.
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Duggan plans new urban agriculture director to support Detroit farmers
Jerry Hebron, executive director of Oakland Avenue Urban Farms in Detroit’s North End neighborhood, said the position will improve efforts to support city farming projects.
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Interview with an autoworker
UAW member Chris Viola speaks with Planet Detroit on the UAW contract fight, EV workers and climate action.
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Grassroots greenspace projects expand Detroit’s open space network
Activists aim to enrich their neighbors’ quality of life and deepen their connection to nature.
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Preparing the next generation of conservation professionals on Belle Isle
Obstacles prevent many youth from visiting the island, but Friends of the Detroit River is bringing Detroit kids out to plug them into conservation careers.
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Michigan regulators release plan to link utility profits with performance
DTE and Consumers would pay more for lengthy and frequent outages, but critics say proposed disincentives are too weak to be effective.
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Prescriptions for fruits and vegetables can improve the health of people with diabetes and other ailments, study finds
The health of people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity improved when they could get free fruits and vegetables with a prescription from their doctors and other health professionals.
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Think Michigan is a ‘climate haven’ from heat and disaster risks? Think again.
Some of the most cited “climate havens” are older cities in the Great Lakes region. Yet these cities will likely have to contend with some of the greatest temperature increases in the country in the coming years.