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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…

4 years ago

From the Headlines

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

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

This week in Sidewalk Botany:

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

4 years ago

This week in Sidewalk Botany:

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

4 years ago

How has flooding impacted Belle Isle’s ‘imperiled’ Wet-Mesic Flatwoods forest?

Drone photographs show masses of dead canopy trees on Belle Isle, especially where Lake Okonoka has inundated the island’s Wet-Mesic…

4 years ago

Life in the cracks:

The A.W.E. Society and Planet Detroit’s Detroiters Do Science Project are pleased to announce an open call for photos, artwork,…

4 years ago