Greenhouse to grocery: Stocking stores with year-round Michigan produce
You can find a little bit of summer in Michigan tomatoes grown in the winter.
David Sands's Latest Articles
Citizen innovation, area history on display in Northeast Detroit tour
An initiative called Create Northeast Detroit recently launched a bus tour of the area encompassing Detroit's District 3 council district. Everyone who took it was treated to a number of innovative, grassroots efforts at community development.
In search of solutions to Detroit’s foreclosure crisis
In the second installment of our series on Detroit's foreclosure crisis, David Sands looks at the organizations and people developing innovative solutions to keep people in their homes.
To fix the foreclosure crisis, we first have to understand it
A home foreclosure crisis has gripped Detroit for over a decade. In the first of two articles, David Sands delves into the extent of the crisis and the people working to understand it.
Rosa Parks Transit Center to get facelift
The city of Detroit has allocated $850,000 this year and next to fix up the Rosa Parks Transit Center, which has seen better days.
Becoming the media: Allied Media Conference celebrates 10 years in Detroit
This year marks an important milestone for Allied Media Conference, a nationally-significant conference that that utilizes media and technology to advance social justice. 10 years ago, AMC relocated to Detroit, a move that ushered in significant changes.
Aviation Subdivision: A neighborhood in two cities
A tale of two cities...in one neighborhood. David Sands digs into the mystery of the Aviation Subdivision, a unique community straddling the border of Detroit and Dearborn.
Community lighting group to potentially partner with Highland Park on ambitious project
When the gutting of Highland Park's lighting grid left residents in the dark four years ago, a grassroots group called Soulardarity sprang up to try to remedy the problem. Now, they're attempting to forge an unprecedented partnership to light the entire city with solar power.
Matrix Theatre Company celebrates 25 years of performance, community, and social justice
As a part of its silver anniversary celebration, Matrix is putting on a production of "agua de luna," a bilingual work by award-winning playwright Caridad Svich.
How Cody Rouge is becoming Detroit’s leading neighborhood for green infrastructure
Flooding has long been an issue for Detroit's Cody Rouge neighborhood, but nonprofits, the city, and residents are taking action to mitigate the negative effects of stormwater on the community. Their latest project, a bioswale in Stein Park, is currently under construction.
