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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.

Journalism Workshop: Watchdogging The Wayne County Tax Auction
Come hang out with Detour Detroit and Outlier Media for a hands-on, group act of accountability journalism.
February 21: Lauren Bush Lauren at The Henry Ford
Feed your entrepreneurial spirit at a talk featuring social entrepreneur Lauren Bush Lauren at The Henry Ford Museum of American
February 20: Distilled Democracy
During changing times, how can you become more civically-engaged, offline and IRL?
The courtroom battle between protesters and the QLINE that no one’s talking about
Last week, after leaving 36th District Court, the activists were triumphant: real estate magnate Dan Gilbert hadn’t been the one
Why John Dingell was the best at Twitter
How 'The Dean' used Twitter to become the moral conscience of the Democratic Party. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of
11 thoughts about that golden ring statue in Sterling Heights
Last month, Sterling Heights erected the “Golden Corridor icon,” a giant circle sculpture on M-59 by Lakeside Mall. With a
This Flint startup has upcycled 16,000 water bottles into glasses
By Erin Gold Ali Rose VanOverbeke and Jack Burns, co-founders of Flint eyewear startup Genusee, can measure their progress in
Meet 9 Detroit designers making the city extra festive this season
It’s hard to imagine something in Detroit that provokes as much nostalgia as the former Hudson’s downtown -- double it
Marijuana is legal in Michigan. Now we have to make it equal.
Michigan voters passed Proposal 1 by a wide margin Tuesday, making us the 10th state to legalize recreational marijuana. The law won’t
Why isn’t Wayne County doing more to keep speculators from exploiting the tax auction?
Even if a buyer can’t unload the property again or decides paying taxes isn’t worth the trouble, losing the house