How to evaluate your property for green infrastructure
Model D's Brian Allnutt on how to get started evaluating your property's potential for green infrastructure.
Brian Allnutt's Latest Articles
Use the winter to plan for your rain garden
It's frigid outside, but that need not stop you from thinking about spring. Model D's Brian Alnutt gives you a primer on how to plan for a rain garden that will beautify your property and help protect the Great Lakes. Part one of a three-part series.
Detroit high school students learn how to build green infrastructure in Cody Rouge’s Stein Park
The bioswale at Stein Park was designed and built with high school students from the Detroit Institute of Technology to capture water from roadways and infiltrate it into the ground, keeping it out of the city's sewer system.
Detroit’s urban farms embrace green infrastructure for sustainable water use
Detroit's urban farms are using green infrastructure to reduce their water costs. Along the way, they're helping to improve the city's stormwater system.
How Detroit’s public parks are using green infrastructure to prevent flooding, save money
Detroit's parks are testing grounds for new green infrastructure projects that are changing the way the city manages its stormwater runoff.
Rain gardens to the rescue: How Detroiters are working together to protect water infrastructure
Detroiters must deal with a new drainage fee to help pay for water infrastructure. Fortunately, an innovative program will help residents reduce those fees, while also soaking up water on their land and helping their neighbors.
The People’s Park: How grassroots organizers have reinvigorated Palmer Park
A real sense of energy and community has emerged at Palmer Park, thanks in large part to the nonprofit People for Palmer Park.
Planting for tomorrow: Replacing aggressive species to promote diversity
Advice from our resident garden expert, Brian Allnutt, on how to add a little diversity and eco-friendliness into your garden landscape this summer.
Landscapes of luxury: A guide to metro Detroit’s public gardens
Metro Detroit is home to some spectacular gardens and greenspaces—all open to the public. Writer and garden expert Brian Allnutt tells us which to visit this spring and summer.
Belle Isle and Olmsted’s forgotten legacy
Frederick Law Olmsted designed Belle Isle, but his plan was lightly implemented and even counteracted by future developments. Brian Allnutt argues its time we reexamine Olmsted's original plans to better inform future use of the island.
