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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.

Have the best Detroit August ever with these essential events
Welcome to Detour Detroit's curated events guide for August 2019. Whether you're looking for culture, boozing or both combined, we've
Why Detroiters should battle construction chaos to spend their dollars on the Avenue of Fashion
Back in May, Carson Daly turned to the camera during a pre-Mother’s Day segment on “The Today Show” and instructed
Why Detroit’s new Sustainability Action Agenda links climate action with quality of life
The city's Office of Sustainability undertook the plan as part of an effort to make city operations more efficient by
A Renaissance Man of Note
We couldn’t do what we do here at Detour without our paying members -- all of you who support our
Seeing through the smog to a tenuous green future in Detroit
It's not a total surprise that Detroit neighborhoods deal with some of the worst environmental injustice issues in the state.
When Hudson’s imploded, this architect’s imagination took off
The Shin sisters created De-troit Detroit," a collection of demolished building fragments inspired by a 2018 visit to Detroit.
Detroiters pack hearing on new DTE Energy plan
The IRP is a plan that all Michigan electric utilities must submit every five years, outlining their strategy for providing
Show-stopping Detroit Airbnb was once an empty ruin
Who hasn’t fantasized about buying and restoring one of the city’s grand old homes to its former glory? Living that
U of M’s role in Detroit Evictions
Here's how Outlier Media founder Sarah Alvarez uncovered University of Michigan’s controversial role in Detroit evictions.
Behind the changing face of recycling in metro Detroit
Across metro Detroit, recycling, that everyday environmentally-friendly practice we all know and love, is changing.