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Planet Detroit

Planet Detroit helps you get smarter about the environment in Detroit and Michigan. Planet Detroit’s stories and weekly newsletter focus on explanatory, solutions-based and investigative reporting, and a deep commitment to community engagement around local environmental issues. Planet Detroit’s mission is to raise awareness about Metro Detroit’s environmental and public health issues, hold powerful entities accountable and help our audience connect with their local environment and take action to protect the health of their communities.

What happens when you give people cash to move to Detroit
Can a neighborhood tackle two of Detroit's biggest problems — shrinking population and chronic disinvestment — by giving people cash
A new way to support your favorite reporters and community-powered journalism
Detour Detroit's Community-Powered Journalism program banks on the most valuable part of local media: the reporting itself.
Detour Detroit is hiring a newsletter editor
You're a news-obsessed writer who can nail deadlines and can be trusted to deliver on assignments while working from home,
Detroit’s ‘Well-Read Black Girl’ Dawn Sarai Robinson uses books to bring people together
Dawn Sarai Robinson launched a Detroit chapter of a book club that celebrates Black women and nonbinary writers... and brings
Is Michigan breaking its own lead rule?
the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Great Lakes Environmental Law Center (GLELC) were requesting a “Declaratory Ruling” around partial
Mapping urban sprawl in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs
It turns out, you can drill down and actually quantify one aspect of sprawl, thanks to the Street Network Disconnectedness
Detroit Housing Commission opens rent voucher waitlist for the first time in 5 years
The rare waitlist opening underscores the incredible need for affordable housing in the city, which the public housing authority is
Activists brave the cold for ‘Tri-County Environmental Justice Solidarity Rally’
Residents from Macomb, Wayne, and Oakland counties came together on a chilly evening Thursday, January 23 for a "Tri-County Environmental
Deteriorating conditions and soil tests raise concerns about dock collapse on Detroit River
EGLE issued a press release on January 16th, saying that “it considers inadequate the steps [Detroit Bulk Storage has] taken
How Backstitch, a new sewing and alterations shop in Highland Park, is built to serve community
Kristine Ferguson opened her sewing and alterations shop Backstitch to provide a new service and learning hub for her community