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Hog Island and Detroitâ€™s ‘park question’: A brief history of Belle Isle

In 1870, Detroit had a problem. The City Council had the desire and funds to build a leisure park in downtown Detroit, but could not...

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This week in Sidewalk Botany:

One was used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The other is fun to step on....

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This week in Sidewalk Botany:

A common allergen and a 'noxious weed' -- both native plants that offer food for wildlife!...

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How has flooding impacted Belle Isle’s â€˜imperiledâ€™ Wet-Mesic Flatwoods forest?

Drone photographs show masses of dead canopy trees on Belle Isle, especially where Lake Okonoka has inundated the islandâ€™s Wet-Mesic Flatwoods ecosystem, a swampy type...

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How Southwest Detroit’s 48217 zip code became known as the ‘most polluted’ in Michigan

Detroit's 48217 zip code is known as the "most polluted" in Michigan -- here's how it got that moniker, and why it matters for environmental...

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Life in the cracks:

The A.W.E. Society and Planet Detroitâ€™s Detroiters Do Science Project are pleased to announce an open call for photos, artwork, writing, or surveys of sidewalk...

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This week in Sidewalk Botany:

Sidewalk Botany is a weekly series of explorations of our photosynthesizing neighbors written by Planet Detroitâ€™s Artist-in-Residence, Bridget Quinn of the A.W.E. Society. To get...

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A peek inside ‘Yeah, What Lester Said’ environmental art exhibit

This weekend is the last opportunity to check out Yeah, What Lester Said , a free, online exhibition this summer that aims to tackle climate...

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OPINION: Southwest Detroit and Downriver should form an environmental justice coalition

Air pollution respects no boundaries and impacts those who live adjacent to or downwind of the emitting sources. Since the industrial revolution, socially constructed laws...

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Metro Detroitâ€™s environmental organizations are largely white. Some are working to change that.

People of color have intimate relationships with the natural world, and environmental injustice disproportionately harms them. So why are environmental orgs dominated by white people?...

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