Environmental Justice

Can a community water lab restore trust in Flint?

The Mckenzie Patrice-Croom Water Lab, which opened to the public last year, wants to change the relationship between people and…

4 years ago

What Detroit’s climate change battle will look like

While it may not see hurricanes or wildfires, climate change will present Detroit with challenges. The solution? Building resilience with…

4 years ago

Can Detroit’s Joe Louis Greenway avoid gentrification?

Applying a “green reparations” framework to the planned 27.5-mile walking and biking trail across Detroit.

4 years ago

Michigan’s weakened environmental laws lead activists to embrace other tactics

The 1990 election of Gov. John Engler ushered in a new era of deregulation, and, for the next several decades,…

4 years ago

Shimekia Nichols helps Detroiters scrutinize their energy bills with enlightenment — and empowerment

Most of us pay our electricity bill without much question. But Detroit resident Shimekia Nichols has learned that critical questions…

4 years ago

‘Making a way out of no way’: Meet four Black women who helped birth Detroit’s environmental justice movement

Alice Jennings, Donele Wilkins, Theresa Landrum and Monica Lewis-Patrick persevere in the relentless fight to secure environmental justice for the…

4 years ago

Hamtramck aims to build park access with tiny city lot in just the right spot

The plan intends to leverage the park as a space to celebrate the city’s multiculturalism, a place “where residents of…

4 years ago

Can an income-based water affordability plan solve Detroit’s water shutoff problem?

Lisa Brooks still owes more than $2,000 in arrearages to DWSD. Once Michigan's water shutoff moratorium expires on December 31,…

4 years ago

From the Headlines

Climate apocalypse vs. ‘stunning Michigan sunsets’

4 years ago

From the Headlines

Climate apocalypse vs. ‘stunning Michigan sunsets’

4 years ago