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Sustainability Features

Green City Diaries: Conserving water, improving neighborhood life

Matthew Piper Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Detroit residents are finding ways to go blue -- meaning, they are learning about the practical environmental benefits of freshwater infrastructure by creating rain gardens and other water-based landscapes. Matthew Piper dives in to get the story.

Recycling in Detroit: You made it happen

Matthew Naimi Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Recycle Here! is packed every Saturday and there is curbside recycling in Rosedale Park, East English Village and Palmer Woods/University District, servicing nearly 50,000 households. Matthew Naimi says that's only the beginning of the Bee Green movement.

Talking revolution and reinvention with John Gallagher

Walter Wasacz Tuesday, April 09, 2013

John Gallagher's stories in the Detroit Free Press are required reading for all who are fascinated in the greater Detroit narrative: how a once dominant global industrial powerhouse retools itself for the future. Walter Wasacz brings the questions.

Modeshift: Edible hut comes to Osborn neighborhood

MJ Galbraith Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Part of Friday's UIX+ArtXDetroit: the Art of Neighborhood Innovation speaker series event is devoted to this project, which our media partners at Modeshift SE-MI Move Together wrote about in this week's newsletter. Click and dig in.

Green City Diaries: Paradise found

Matthew Piper Tuesday, April 02, 2013

A few weeks into spring has lightened our hearts and brightened our spirits, helping us turn our attention to the city's natural environment hiding in plain sight. Matthew Piper finds Detroiters who know the landscape inside and outside.

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Belle Isle Conservancy president answers questions about future of city park
Source: Bridge Michigan
Listen up: Greening of Detroit Grandmount-Rosedale project on WDET
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Freep's Gallagher: Nonprofit oversight leads to Detroit improvements
Source: Detroit Free Press
Next City talks to Francis Grunow about Detroit DIY and more
Source: Next City
'Hands on' Model D partner Mode Shift gets Freep's attention
Source: Detroit Free Press
Mode Shift says 'hooray' for walkable neighborhoods
Source: Mode Shift Move Together
Forbes weighs in on 'Another Detroit is Happening'
Source: Forbes
WSU takes lead on bike sharing study
Source: HuffPost Detroit
HuffPost gives us first taste of DDF
Source: HuffPost Detroit
DC3 announces second design festival for September
Source: Detroit Creative Corridor Center

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