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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, the increasing upheavals of climate...

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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 Mack Plant and their Jefferson...

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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 person and injured three. The...

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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 on the Detroit/Hamtramck border has...

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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 Detroit spoke with Jamesa Johnson-Greer,...

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Hog Island and Detroitâ€™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 downtown Detroit, but could not...

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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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How has flooding impacted Belle Isle’s â€˜imperiledâ€™ Wet-Mesic Flatwoods forest?

Drone photographs show masses of dead canopy trees on Belle Isle, especially where Lake Okonoka has inundated the islandâ€™s Wet-Mesic Flatwoods ecosystem, a swampy type...

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Life in the cracks:

The A.W.E. Society and Planet Detroitâ€™s Detroiters Do Science Project are pleased to announce an open call for photos, artwork, writing, or surveys of sidewalk...

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