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SPONSORED: Let’s fight hunger this September with fresh produce.

This post is sponsored by Taste The Local Difference, your resource for local food & farms. September is Hunger Action…

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From the Headlines

September 11, 2020 Getting the lead out: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and…

4 years ago

OPINION: ‘Life in the Cracks’ matters now, more than ever

With the ongoing tragedies of the global pandemic, the police brutality and uprisings for Black life, the slide towards fascism,…

4 years ago

Community raises concern about FCA expansion, call for better testing and community benefits

Community residents raised concerns about a permit request submitted by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for both their Detroit Assembly Complex…

4 years ago

Did Michigan violate civil rights law with its permit to US Ecology?

In November of 2018, an explosion at a US Ecology facility just outside Grand View, Idaho, population 450, killed one…

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From the Headlines

Sept. 4, 2020 Toxic justice? A recent decision to allow US Ecology to massively expand its toxic waste storage facility…

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Jamesa Johnson-Greer: A conversation on why poor communities will suffer the most from climate change

To learn more about why environmental justice matters the ways poor communities are more vulnerable to the climate crisis, Planet…

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Hog Island and Detroit’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…

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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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