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20230207 No crushers in Core City handbills

By Bill Kubota and Nicole Macdonald
Residents in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood didn’t want a concrete crusher operating near their homes.
They were concerned concrete dust and truck traffic would damage their quality of life and impede residential redevelopment in the area that borders North Corktown, just west of the Woodbridge neighborhood.
Residents mobilized against the proposed crusher. This is the story of how they stopped it. 
One Detroit Senior Producer Bill Kubota and One Detroit Contributor Nicole Macdonald produced a documentary — shot over two years from late 2022 to 2024 — showing how residents and activists worked together to keep the concrete crusher out and prevent heavy industry from coming into the neighborhood in the future.
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Health and environmental concerns
Core City is within eyeshot view of downtown Detroit, not far from The Station at Michigan Central, the iconic railroad depot recently restored by Ford Motor Company in Corktown.
There are many open fields on empty streets where houses used to be as well as urban farms, homes occupied by longtime residents and new homes with owners moving into the area.
In late 2022, residents were concerned about the environmental impact a crusher could have so they started a campaign to stop it from coming to Core City. Concrete crushing facilities are important for recycling materials that can be used to build new roads. Crushers in other neighborhoods have emitted dust, causing health concerns for nearby residents.
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Kenneth Rosenman, MD, a professor of Occupational Medicine at Michigan State University, said being near facilities like concrete crushers could exacerbate health conditions such as asthma and emphysema.
“These should not be by schools, they should not be … in residential neighborhoods,” he said.
Other people nearby could also be impacted. Emissions from concrete facilities can travel one to two miles, BridgeDetroit reporter Jena Brooker said.
“It’s not just going to affect whatever neighborhood it’s going to go into,” she said. “It’s going to affect multiple neighborhoods.”
Campaign against the crusher underway
Vanessa Serna, a native of Toronto, Canada, moved to the Core City neighborhood in 2022.
“People like me move here,” Serna said. “And then this happens.”
She, like many others, didn’t want to live near a concrete crushing operation. Serna was instrumental in the fight to stop the crusher from coming to the neighborhood.
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Core City residents got help from people in Detroit’s Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods who successfully stopped an asphalt plant from operating there in 2021.
Pam Weinstein, a Grandmont Rosedale resident, said she contacted Serna when she learned about the proposed crusher in Core City.
“I wanted to share with her as many of the lessons that we had learned,” she said. “And as many of the strategies that worked for us.”
Stakeholders make their case
Others invested in the Core City community like urban farmer Andy Chae were also involved in the effort to keep to the crusher out.
Chae grows crops in Core City that he delivers to Detroit area restaurants.
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“People always ask us: ‘Is the soil safe? What about the air pollution?’” Chae recounted. “These are all valid questions.”
Eleanor Parnell has been a Core City resident all her life. She lives about 600 feet away from the proposed crusher site and worried about noise and increased traffic.
Speaking at a rally in April 2023, Parnell said there are other things the neighborhood needed.
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“We’re still attempting to get new housing and new stores and new businesses that are going to be beneficial for our neighborhood,” she said.
City officials respond
In July 2023, residents and activists boarded a bus headed for city hall. They appeared before Detroit’s Board of Zoning Appeals, arguing officials should deny an operating permit for the proposed concrete crusher.
“I’m happy you all showed up,” said Board of Zoning Appeals member Robert Thomas. “Typically, when people do not engage and they don’t show up, it could go the other way.”
While many Core City residents testified, nobody appeared in support of the crusher.
The board denied the permit, but the fight wasn’t over. Residents wanted to end any possibility the crusher could operate near them – now or in the future.
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They campaigned to get their neighborhood rezoned. The change they pushed for, called downzoning, would permit light industry and residential properties and prohibit all heavy industry, including concrete crushers.
Ultimately, their strategy worked.
In April 2024, the Detroit City Planning Commission voted in favor of downzoning Core City. Five months later, in September 2024, Detroit City Council also approved the change, making it official.
People associated with the proposed crusher didn’t return messages left by One Detroit.
Reporter Jena Brooker, who has covered environmental issues for One Detroit’s media partner BridgeDetroit, said she has noticed residents are fighting back more lately against heavy industry.
“I do think that residents are becoming less tolerant of living so close to industry,” she said.
Core City moves forward
Since the zoning change, Core City has seen new development, including the opening of the acclaimed restaurant, <a href="https://www.pumadetroit.com/info">Puma</a>.
Chef Javier Bardauil, a native of Argentina and now a Core City resident, runs it and another restaurant nearby.
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“I think it’s crazy to have a concrete crusher in the neighborhood,&#8221; he said.
Serna, who helped organize a campaign against the crusher, has since moved from Detroit. She said she’s not someone who likes to stay in one place too long.
Before leaving for the west coast in 2024, she talked about the fight to keep heavy industry out of Core City and said she hopes it sets a precedent.
“If you want to attract more people to come live here … then this is a no brainer,” she said.
Sandy Hopkins still lives nearby, proud of the campaign she was part of that Serna helped lead.
“Sometimes all it takes is one voice to inspire a community to give them confidence to fight for their own lives,” she said.
This documentary was produced by Bill Kubota and Nicole Macdonald with support from BridgeDetroit reporter Jena Brooker.

A Detroit neighborhood fought back against heavy industry and won

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A farm in Washtenaw County called <a href="https://www.barnsanctuary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barn Sanctuary</a> has an uncommon mission, providing care for ailing farm animals. 
“We do everything that farming is except for the last part, taking the animals to the market,” said Dan McKernan, president and founder of Barn Sanctuary, who started the operation with his father Tom McKernan.  
Barn Sanctuary is included among a list of animal sanctuaries worldwide approved by the <a href="https://sanctuaryfederation.org/find-a-sanctuary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries</a>. There are just a few such certified sanctuaries in the Midwest and as of now Barn Sanctuary is the only one in Michigan. 
The McKernan family farm goes back almost a century-and-a-half, but when new developments started popping up nearby, they made the decision to do something different with their property. Dan McKernan had been working in the technology field in Texas when he heard about another sanctuary and brought the idea to his father. 
Barn Sanctuary began eight years ago as a nonprofit. At that time, Dan took to social media to raise money to finance and expand the operation. The farm takes care of animals big and small including cows, sheep, goats, donkeys, pigs, chickens, ducks and turkeys. About 140 animal residents call the sanctuary home. 
“Over time the sanctuary became my dream too, so I am all in on this and this is what I do,” said Tom, a pharmacist who’s served as the local township supervisor. “This is my life now.”  
One Detroit’s <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/shows/one-detroit/about/">Bill Kubota</a> and photojournalist Scott Rensberger visited the farm to learn how the sanctuary works and hear the <a href="https://www.barnsanctuary.org/residents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stories of some of the residents</a> who will live out their time in a way few other farm animals do.

Barn Sanctuary, Michigan’s only certified animal refuge, gives farm animals a second chance

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Keep Growing Detroit is an organization that strives to cultivate food sovereignty for Detroit residents with a focus on providing access to locally grown fruits and vegetables from Detroit. In 2023, the organization hosted 128 volunteer events with 1,785 volunteers. It also hosted 80 classes and helped 44 new growers sell their goods at Eastern Market.
The organization’s partnerships with other food-based initiatives and programs have helped support better diets for more than 26,000 Detroiters by providing access to fresh produce, according to its website.
One Detroit’s Will Glover spoke with Keep Growing Detroit’s Engagement Manager Danielle Daguio who has been with the organization since 2012. She shares how her relationship with food and heritage deepened by learning more about growing her own food and expanding her role within the organization.
Working with other organizations to create opportunities for Black farmers, Daguio also talks about how Keep Growing Detroit supports farmers who are navigating how to acquire land and grow food in a sometimes challenging urban farming ecosystem. One Detroit’s Chris Jordan helped produce this story.
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Keep Growing Detroit pursues food sovereignty with focus on access to fresh produce

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Detroit’s riverfront is one of the city’s main attractions. <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/riverfront" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The riverfront</a> attracts an estimated 3.5 million people each year, according to the <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Riverfront Conservancy</a>. Along with a popular riverwalk, which has been named the nation’s best riverwalk by USA Today for three years running, there are multiple parks and a famous concert venue right on the river. However, back in the late 90s, there was another plan for the riverfront. 
Former Detroit <a href="https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/archer-dennis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor Dennis Archer</a> planned to build a casino district along the river, which would have not only changed the view Canadians living in Windsor have, but it would have also impacted Detroiters living east of downtown near the river. A grassroots effort led by Detroiters called the Riverfront East Alliance – or REAL – came together to help put an end to that casino district plan. 
REAL comprised Detroiters from about a dozen neighborhoods, mostly on the city’s east side. The members said adding casinos to the riverfront would ruin the natural beauty of the area. There was also a concern about the noise, traffic, and crowds that might accompany casinos along the river.  
One Detroit contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/BryceHuffman313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryce Huffman</a> talks with members of the Riverfront East Alliance about their preservation efforts. 
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Riverfront East Alliance reflects on 20-year beautification of Detroit Riverfront

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Virtual kayaking, snowmobiling, ATVing and more can all be found at <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/oac">The Outdoor Adventure Center</a> along the Detroit Riverfront. It’s run by the Michigan <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Natural Resources</a>. The center aims to entertain while educating its visitors by bringing Michigan’s outdoor activities to its indoor facility.
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Located within the historic Globe Building, the center resides across the street from <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/riverfront/east-riverfront/milliken-state-park-and-harbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milliken State Park and Harbor</a> on the Detroit River and was a building used to build steam engines. Beyond the numerous recreational activities and exhibits at the center, it also offers educational opportunities to learn about forestry, wildlife, archery and more.
“We want to make sure that everybody knows what we have to offer in this beautiful state,” Assistant Director of Outdoor Adventure Center, Missy Sharp said. “We hope that they (then) take the chance and go and visit our beautiful state parks throughout the state.” 
The Outdoor Adventure Center is open to the public on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at various times; on Thursdays the center is open to groups by appointment only. One Detroit contributor <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#sarah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Zientarski</a> talks with Sharp about what Detroiters and other visitors can experience at the center.
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Outdoor Adventure Center brings Michigan’s nature and recreation to Detroit

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A concrete crushing company started operating in Detroit’s Schoolcraft neighborhood a few years ago to the surprise of many people living nearby. Longtime resident Carol Couch lives in the west side neighborhood near Dino-Mite Crushing and Recycling and said she believes residue on her car comes from the crushing operation.  
Schoolcraft residents said they are concerned about their quality of life and health. “There’s a lot of pride in our community,” said George Perdue of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SchoolcraftImprovementAssociation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schoolcraft Improvement Association</a>. “It doesn’t make me feel good to tell somebody take 96 to Greenfield on your way to my house because I know they’re going to pass this dust-laden area.”  
Schoolcraft resident Audrey Moses Sims spoke during a public hearing last year and said her son has asthma and is on a breathing machine. “I had no idea that this facility would be opened up here,” she said. “I would have totally been against it.” 
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Dino-Mite’s representative and the company’s attorney have not answered One Detroit’s requests to talk about problems in the neighborhood. BridgeDetroit <a href="https://www.jenabrooker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporter Jena Brooker</a> found <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-residents-battle-neighborhood-concrete-crusher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the city cited the company operating the crushing operation</a> with nearly 300 blight violations over two years. 
The city of Detroit has taken legal action to reduce the dust, even to possibly <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-attorney-fighting-to-shut-down-concrete-crusher-has-credentials-questioned/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">force it to shut down.</a> There is a hearing scheduled in Wayne County Circuit Court March 21. One Detroit’s <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#bill">senior producer Bill Kubota</a> teamed up with filmmaker and One Detroit contributor <a href="https://www.ncolemacdonald.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicole Macdonald</a> to talk with residents about their concerns over heavy industry operating in city neighborhoods.
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Schoolcraft vs. Dust: Residents raise concerns over air quality, living conditions on Detroit’s west side

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Overgrown weeds, empty bottles and discarded bags littered property around a Detroit Family Dollar store. This type of blight isn’t unusual for a number of the dollar stores across the city, according to a report by BridgeDetroit <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/author/jena-brooker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporter Jena Brooker</a>, who found the city issued more than 2,400 blight tickets to Family Dollar and Dollar Tree, which are owned by the same parent company, in a three-year span dating to 2020. The company racked up more than $740,000 in unpaid fines, <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/can-detroiters-afford-more-dollar-stores/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BridgeDetroit analysis shows</a>. 
The city negotiated a settlement with the company for $150,000, about one-fifth of its unpaid fines, BridgeDetroit reported. A Dollar Tree spokesperson said in a statement: “We know how much Detroit shoppers rely on our stores, and we’re committed to offering a clean, safe environment for our associates and customers – both inside and outside of our stores.” 
Some city council members disagreed with the settlement and wanted to see more action taken to rectify the issues. Councilmember Angela Whitfield-Calloway <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-council-member-calls-for-moratorium-on-new-dollar-stores/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wants a temporary moratorium</a> on building new dollar stores in the city. She also wants to see more fresh produce in existing dollar stores. 
One Detroit <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Producer Will Glover</a> caught up with Brooker to learn about the blight issues at dollar stores around the city, as well as what steps city officials are taking. 
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Detroit City Council member calls for moratorium on new dollar stores after excessive blight

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In the heart of Southwest Detroit lies Riverside Park. The renovated park is near industry, leaving residents grappling with the challenge of enjoying nature amid truck noise and concerns over air quality.
<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/02/21/detroit-city-council-oks-land-swap-deal-with-ambassador-bridge-owners/69927650007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The battleground between residents and businesses</a>, however, becomes a testing ground for civic cooperation, as city officials strive to strike a balance that caters to the diverse needs of the community. The City of Detroit has engaged a local civil engineering group to chart the park’s multi-phase transformation, including expanding boundaries, reclaiming acres for public space, and enhancing riverfrontage. <a href="https://peagroup.com/what-we-do/our-work/detroit-riverside-park/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The revitalized park</a> now boasts interactive features such as a spray park, a winter-ready sledding hill, and a ¼-mile walking loop. 
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One Detroit contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/BryceHuffman313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryce Huffman</a> sat down with residents and businesses living and operating near Riverside Park, as well as a Detroit city council member, to learn how the city is ensuring residents and businesses can both be heard and have their input incorporated into decisions shaping the park’s future.  
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Huffman talks with Debra Sumner, a longtime Hubbard Farms neighborhood resident; <a href="https://www.sdevweb.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision</a> Executive Director Raquel Garcia; <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/es/government/ayuntamiento/ayuntamiento-distrito-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriela Santiago-Romero</a>, Detroit City Council Member for District 6; and Heather Grondin, <a href="https://www.gordiehoweinternationalbridge.com/en/windsor-detroit-bridge-authority-overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority</a> Vice President of Corporate Affairs and External Relations.
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Residents and businesses clash over industry near Detroit’s Riverside Park

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The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy’s long-anticipated Uniroyal Promenade is now open. Gifted to the city of Detroit by the Conservancy, the promenade will bring residents and visitors closer to the city’s scenic riverfront. <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/uniroyalopening">The grand unveiling</a> on Oct. 21 marked the completion of a 3.5-mile, 20-year-old vision for the East Riverfront, signifying a pivotal milestone for the city’s rejuvenated waterfront. 
<figure id="attachment_32984" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32984" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32984" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ONE-DETROIT-817-East-Riverfront-Still-2.jpg" alt="Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's Uniroyal Promenade " width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32984" class="wp-caption-text">Members of the community walk along the newly-opened Uniroyal Promenade, a 3.5 mile pathway that connects Gabriel Richard Park to Mt. Elliott Park and Belle Isle Bridge. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
Stretching along the riverwalk, <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/riverfront/east-riverfront/uniroyal-site">the promenade</a> connects Gabriel Richard Park to Mt. Elliott Park while providing a secure pedestrian pathway to the iconic Belle Isle Bridge. The promenade also boasts an extra-wide pathway with separate lanes for both walkers and cyclists, as well as vibrant landscaping and a stately stone barrier known as “rip rap” along the water’s edge.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
One Detroit attended the Uniroyal Promenade grand opening for a look at the city’s new riverfront pathway. At the event, <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorMikeDuggan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan</a> and <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Riverfront Conservancy</a> Chief Financial Officer William Smith talked about how the new pathway opens a connection to the Detroit Riverwalk and extends the vision for the Conservancy’s <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/community-posts/city-of-detroit-seeks-residents-input-on-200-million-joe-louis-greenway-plans/">Joe Louis Greenway</a>, a 27.5-mile biking and walking trail that, when finished, will connect Detroit’s riverfront to parts of metro Detroit like Hamtramck, Highland Park and Dearborn.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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Detroit Riverfront Conservancy opens long-awaited 3.5-mile Uniroyal Promenade riverfront pathway

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Michigan&#8217;s infrastructure is crumbling — literally. Michigan has witnessed a troubling decline in the condition of its aging infrastructure, including its roads, water, and energy systems, and the tangible effects of climate change through <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/community-posts/last-years-flooding-damage-leaves-some-detroiters-still-waiting-for-federal-aid-repairs/">increased flooding</a>, heatwaves, and severe storms have placed additional stress on these already fragile systems. Addressing the interplay between deteriorating infrastructure and the impact of climate change has become a pressing issue for residents and policymakers alike. These challenges raise urgent questions about how to modernize and fortify critical infrastructure in the face of an evolving climate landscape.
The <a href="https://crcmich.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citizens Research Council of Michigan</a> believes it has the answers. The council has released its latest findings in the fourth of a series of five reports, in partnership with the nonprofit <a href="https://altarum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Altarum</a>, titled &#8220;<a href="https://crcmich.org/publications/prosperous-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan’s Path to a Prosperous Future: Challenges and Opportunities.</a>&#8221; The reports are helping to inform Michigan&#8217;s new <a href="https://growingmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Michigan Together Council</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/9s0szgNfdqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer</a> at the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference. <a href="https://crcmich.org/publications/environmental-infrastructure-and-climate-change-challenges-and-opportunities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The council&#8217;s latest report</a> explores the multiple challenges, several of which are amplified by climate change, involved with rebuilding and maintaining the state&#8217;s infrastructure, as well as remediating and protecting the environment.
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPPVoBLbvo">The aftermath of Detroit&#8217;s historic flooding</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/caregiving/michigans-path-to-a-prosperous-future-crc-report-three/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the Citizens Research Council of Michigan&#8217;s third report on Michigan&#8217;s declining health trends</a></li>
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In Southeast Michigan specifically, the effects of climate change on Michigan&#8217;s weather, with warmer winters and springs and heavier rains causing more destructive storms, <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/great-lakes-bureau/jefferson-chalmers-neighborhood-faces-uncertain-future-due-to-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have overwhelmed the region&#8217;s water systems</a>. With the impacts of climate change at the forefront, what it will take to address the stress on the state’s current water infrastructure in the face of increasingly extreme weather events in the future?
Chuck Hersey, Senior Policy Advisor for <a href="https://www.ohm-advisors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OHM Advisors</a>, a company that works with the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (<a href="https://www.semcog.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEMCOG</a>) on addressing regional challenges, including those connected with water infrastructure talks with &#8220;One Detroit&#8221; producer and Future of Work host <a href="https://www.instagram.com/willofmichigan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a>. They talk about the process of water getting to our homes, coordination between organizations that handle different sectors of infrastructure, the need to invest in infrastructure repair, and the increased funding it will likely take to replace Southeast Michigan&#8217;s water infrastructure.
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New CRC report shows Michigan’s infrastructure struggles under climate change pressure

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On a sunny spring day in Detroit, residents are likely spending time outside, taking in the fresh air, but for some residents across the city the air isn’t so fresh. On the city’s southeast side, resident and activist Robert Shobe chooses to stay inside most days to avoid breathing in the <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-council-stellantis-odors-relocate-residents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polluted air from a Stellantis assembly plant</a> less than 500 feet from his backyard. 
In Southwest Detroit’s 48217 ZIP code, noted as being among the most polluted areas in Michigan, long-time environmental activist and <a href="https://caphedetroit.sph.umich.edu/project/theresa-landrum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroiter Theresa Landrum</a> said residents are surrounded by more than 42 major and minor polluting sources, which have been connected to a breadth of health issues from cancer to heart disease and diabetes and contribute to global climate change. 
In recognition of Earth Month, One Detroit contributor Bryce Huffman sat down with the two environmental activists to talk about how air pollution and poor air quality have an impact both on climate change and residents’ overall health. 
RELATED: <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/great-lakes-bureau/jefferson-chalmers-neighborhood-faces-uncertain-future-due-to-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weathering the floods: Detroit neighborhood faces uncertain future due to climate change</a>
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Plus he talks with two city officials who are part of the city’s <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/general-services-department/office-sustainability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Sustainability</a> — the office’s new Director of Sustainability Jack Akinlosotu and Detroit’s Chief Strategy Officer Trisha Stein, who oversees the Sustainability office — about the efforts the city officials are putting in to reduce air pollution and improve the city’s air quality.
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Bryce Huffman, BridgeDetroit, Reporter: It&#8217;s a sunny spring day on Detroit&#8217;s southeast side. Most people would spend time outside to enjoy it, but not Detroiter and activist Robert Shobe. He&#8217;s staying inside to avoid breathing the polluted air outside of his home. 
Robert Shobe, Activist, Justice for Beniteau: I&#8217;m afraid to go outside and just breathe my air or do anything to that degree. 
Bryce Huffman: Shobe lives on Beniteau Street and has been in his house for 26 years. His home is less than 500 feet away from a Stellantis assembly plant on Mack. Since the plant was built, Stellantis has been given seven different air quality violations by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. The company has also been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for these violations. 
The 60-year-old Detroiter said he and his neighbors have complained of burning and itching in their eyes and throat, difficulty breathing and even headaches and nausea. Air quality issues contribute to climate change, the long-term change in temperature and weather patterns. Shobe says the issues with air quality got worse when the plant began painting vehicles back in 2021. 
Robert Shobe: Well, first noticed the air, a change in the air that would have been in May of 2000&#8230; I mean 2019 when they first started. But it was nothing near what it was like when they started painting cars over there. 
Bryce Huffman: Protecting his own health and that of his neighborhood has been an ongoing fight for Shobe and the other residents who make up justice for Beniteau. The group&#8217;s goal is to hold the city accountable for air pollution and other issues resulting from the Stellantis plant. Representatives from Stellantis did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Shobes says he wishes the fight were over, but he knows he has to look out for his neighborhood&#8217;s future. 
When you think about future generations growing up with these air pollutants, what concerns you most about that scenario? 
Robert Shobe: I&#8217;ve been around the United States. I&#8217;ve been a lot of places. I&#8217;ve been around different plants. It&#8217;s standard practice to have a burn between the community. Nobody is 400 feet away from a volatile facility like this. There&#8217;s no way. I don&#8217;t&#8230; I&#8217;m no scientist, but I really don&#8217;t see how they can make it safe for people this close. 
Bryce Huffman: The city&#8217;s Eastside residents aren&#8217;t the only ones to feel the impacts of air pollution. Southwest Detroit&#8217;s 48217 ZIP code is notorious for being among the most polluted areas of the state. 
Theresa Landrum, Activist, Southwest Detroit Resident: We&#8217;re surrounded by more than 42 major and minor polluting sources, not knowing that the very industry that my father, my brothers, my aunts, my uncles and mom worked at were the very industries that were having an impact on our health as far as air quality. 
Bryce Huffman: This is Theresa Landrum, a longtime environmental activist and Southwest Detroiter. 
Talk to me about these industry polluters. What have conversations been like trying to make them more energy efficient, make them greener, make them safer for the community? 
Theresa Landrum: Industry is here for profit, right? We&#8217;re here for survival. So it has not been an easy road to talk to them about their industry&#8217;s impact. On the health of the community. We have high rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, you name it, we have it here. 
We&#8217;ve been talking with industry and with the state, as well as the EPA on emission reduction that companies use the best available technology for pollution control. Also, we&#8217;ve been talking with the state EPA and industry about alternatives that they can utilize. Don&#8217;t go the cheaper method because it&#8217;s more profit for your company and your stakeholders and your board members. Look at the very people that you&#8217;re impacting. 
Bryce Huffman: Landrum has also spoken with companies with a more global presence about their carbon footprint. 
Theresa Landrum: Because we know that greenhouse gases are the things that are fueling climate change. We&#8217;re in the midst of a climate crisis globally, so we have to look to other countries, other manufacturers, other than the ones that are in our home. Right. To talk to them about a global solution. 
Bryce Huffman: Inside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building is Detroit&#8217;s Office of Sustainability. It&#8217;s tasked with reducing carbon emissions and improving air quality, among other goals. We sat down with Jack Akinlosotu, the city&#8217;s new director of sustainability. 
Jack Akinlosotu, Director of Sustainability, Detroit Office of Sustainability: Yeah, I think one of the big things that we do overall is making sure that we&#8217;re doing all we can to deploy all of our resources to lower the greenhouse gases for the city. We want to make sure that we&#8217;re doing all we can, whether it&#8217;s building energy performance or deploying renewable energy across the city. We want to make sure we&#8217;re doing everything we can to ultimately lower our greenhouse gas emissions. 
Bryce Huffman: We also sat down with the city&#8217;s chief strategy officer, Trisha Stein, who oversees the sustainability office. 
Why is improving air quality such a big deal for a city like ours and with residents like ours? 
Trisha Stein, Chief Strategy Officer, Detroit Office of Sustainability: Yeah, well, it certainly hits the most vulnerable residents the hardest. Climate change and air quality and our rates of asthma and public health are such that need to be addressed and make sure that we have mitigation efforts and it&#8217;s applied in an equitable matter. 
Bryce Huffman: What is improving air quality look like? 
Trisha Stein: Well, one of the things that our Building and Safety Department is doing is really twofold is they just got a grant for some air monitors and hired an air quality specialist. So they are leaning in and figuring out what role they can play to monitor the air. Also, a green buffer. We&#8217;ve got a partnership with U.S. Forestry to plant thousands of trees every year around the city. And the mayor wants us to target the most blighted industrial sites to ensure that there is a green buffer. 
Bryce Huffman: If you could talk to the Office of Sustainability about what&#8217;s going on over here, what would you want to tell them? 
Robert Shobe: The first thing you&#8217;ve got to do is buy out the people over in here and you&#8217;ve got to create a safety burn between whatever residents that&#8217;s left. Do a factual study of what was happening here and figure out how to mitigate it from going any further. We know they&#8217;re not going to tear down a multibillion-dollar complex for us, but the first thing they could do is get this done right over here. 
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Detroit has an air pollution problem, and it’s impacting climate change, residents’ health

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Whether physically, recreationally or culturally, the changing climate is a problem that affects Detroit residents across the board. Heavy rains, extreme heat and air quality issues continue to impact residents, disproportionately affecting the city’s Black and brown residents who are often left to deal with the problems on their own. 

And as they’re finding, changing the effects of climate change in the city will take a lot of resident advocacy. For Earth Month, “American Black Journal” and <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/">BridgeDetroit</a> have teamed up to examine the impact of climate change on people of color and low-income residents in Detroit. 
<a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit">Host Stephen Henderson</a> leads a community-focused roundtable discussion with BridgeDetroit environmental <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/author/jena-brooker/">reporter Jena Brooker</a>, <a href="https://www.michiganej.org/">Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition</a> Executive Director Jamesa Johnson Greer, and <a href="https://detroitenvironmentaljustice.org/">Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice</a> Executive Director Laprisha Berry Daniels.  
The roundtable panelists discuss how climate change is impacting every aspect of life for Detroit residents, putting their health and safety at risk. Plus, they talk about the health issues arising <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/great-lakes-bureau/jefferson-chalmers-neighborhood-faces-uncertain-future-due-to-climate-change/">from flooded homes</a> and air pollution regulations, as well as the importance of residents speaking out on environmental issues in order to bring change. 
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Stephen Henderson, American Black Journal, Host: From flooding to heat waves and air quality issues&#8230; Detroiters really face a lot of threats, their safety and their health. I sat down for a frank conversation about climate change with Brit&#8217;s Detroit Environmental Reporter Jena Brooker. Jamesha Johnson Greer from the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, and Laprisha Berry Daniels from Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice. 
So, Jamesha, I&#8217;m going to start with you. How do we know that the things that we&#8217;re experiencing here in Detroit? That Detroiters are experiencing in particular and that Black Detroiters are disproportionately affected by? How do we know this is about climate change? How do we know that there&#8217;s a connection between the way that, you know, the environment has altered and been altered and the hardship that we see in cities like Detroit? 
Jamesha Johnson Greer, Executive Director, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition: Yeah, we can definitely see it. We see it every single year through the flooding events. We can see it through our health even. We know that from 2017 to 2019, 16.2% of Detroit adults and 11.11% of Michigan adults had asthma. And that means that the asthma rates in Detroit were 46% higher for, you know, for those Detroiters than Michigan residents as a whole. 
So the fact that that&#8217;s happening means that people are being impacted by air quality issues pretty, pretty predominantly in areas where Black and Brown folks are living. And that directly relates to climate change and how folks are impacted by air quality. Specifically, when we think about greenhouse gases that we&#8217;re trying to particularly get a handle on as we&#8217;re trying to mitigate those impacts. 
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. Jena, in a lot of your reporting at BridgeDetroit, there is this evidence of the things that we do and tolerate in Detroit that already make it difficult for people who live here. I mean, we create our own hardships with the amount of industry that we have, the lack of controls over air quality and things. But this idea that climate is kind of adding to that makes it even more urgent that we&#8217;re seeing more of the consequences than we even would see in a city that was already really dirty. 
Jena Brooker, Environmental Reporter, Bridge Detroit: Yeah, I think it&#8217;s hard because the industry has helped build Detroit and, you know, we&#8217;re the Motor City and Detroiters have a close connection to that legacy. And it&#8217;s that same legacy that, like you said, is polluting primarily Black neighborhoods in Detroit and exacerbating the climate crisis. 
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. Talk about some of the reporting that you&#8217;ve done, Jena, and what it shows and how this plays out in people&#8217;s lives. 
Jena Brooker: I think that my reporting has shown that climate change is impacting every aspect of Detroiter&#8217;s lives from worsening their allergies to, you know, increased asthma rates to basement flooding, extreme heat, average just increased temperatures, winter activities. Like ice fishing or skiing. You know, I think the first Black ski club was founded in the metro Detroit area or Detroit area. So it&#8217;s impacting every aspect of Detroiter&#8217;s lives from their health to their cultural experiences and their work. Just everything. 
Stephen Henderson: Laprisha, your group is dedicated to trying to make this better, to push back against the, you know, the dirty quality of air and water and things here, but also, of course, to account for climate change. Talk about what this looks like from your vantage point, the things you see and the opportunities you think we have to make it better. 
Laprisha Berry Daniels, Executive Director, Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice: So, Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice is specifically focusing on reducing environmental health disparities. And some of that Jamesha and Jena have already touched on. So specifically, we are focused on reducing asthma, other respiratory illness, lead poisoning, lead exposure, as well as cardiovascular disease. And so there&#8217;s a direct connection between for air quality, for soil quality, for water quality or access to water and those health disparities. 
Jamesha started talking about the flooding events or the heavy rain events that we&#8217;ve had in Detroit. And there are specific ways that impacts the health and well-being of Detroiters for lots of reasons. One reason is because there&#8217;s not enough relief when there are emergencies like that in the city. We know that we have lots of renters and the relief is not available to renters. So there are ways that having these heavy flooding events exacerbate asthma because of mold now that can be present in the home from the water, being in the home, water intrusion in the home. But there are other ways that this impacts folks that we may not think about as much. 
One example is increase in lead poisoning among children. When we find that there&#8217;s not relief from these flooding events, then folks are left to their own devices to figure out how to dry out their homes. One of those ways is beyond having neighbors and friends help to come and clean up. You also are opening and closing your windows to try to air out your home. And so that is introducing more lead dust into the air. Eighty percent of our homes in Detroit are pre 1978. And so there&#8217;s a lot of lead paint still existing in a lot of our homes. And so it&#8217;s not just what happens from the rain, right? It&#8217;s also what happens from residents being left to their own devices to try to solve the problems that come along with climate change. 
Stephen Henderson: The kind of cascading effect of one thing leading to lots of other things that make everything much harder, much harder to manage. Jena, I want to come back to you for a second. You worked on a story recently that talked about the truck traffic near the Stellantis plant and then in the neighborhood over on the east side of Detroit. 
And one of the things that was really interesting about that story was the lack of response from the responsible agencies for regulating that traffic, the nuisance, the noise, the air pollution. Talk about the ways in which we see government and government authority kind of failing to help out where it actually can. 
Jena Brooker: Yeah, I think that that instance is tricky because trucks&#8230; to my understanding, is sort of this gray area where the state regulates air pollution and, you know, trucks cause air pollution, but aren&#8217;t, I guess, like a factory emitting air pollution. But I think overall we do see the federal, state and city government sort of punting the responsibility of addressing the climate crisis to other people or even putting it on individuals like reduce your carbon footprint, when really we need all areas of our governments to work together to, you know, pass policy, you know, like the state could pass the state or city could create a tax credit for electric bikes to incentivize people to, you know, get out of their cars, which transportation and trucks is one of the leading contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. 
They could incentivize a tax credit for electric bicycles or the trigger code for buildings to reduce their emissions. So I think that we see all areas of our government punting the responsibility off. And it&#8217;s unfortunate because that&#8217;s probably where we need the solution. A lot of the widespread solutions and policy changes to come from. 
Stephen Henderson: Jamesha, talk about how your organization is kind of focused on, you know, increasing response to these kind of things. And then talk about the Jemez principles for Democratic organizing. I think that&#8217;s an important part of this. Yeah, we need the government to do its job, but part of that is about us as citizens figuring out how to get the government to be more responsive. 
Jamesha Johnson Greer: Yeah, absolutely. You know, part of this is also recognizing that there are more actors here than just government. There are also corporate actors as well that are involved in this process. And part of the work that we do with Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition is corporate accountability work. 
And so recognizing that, you know, the floods that happened in 2021, that happened in 2022, that the frequency and intensity of storms that we&#8217;re experiencing are not going away. But it does require all of us, including our utilities, to step up to the occasion. And that means that, you know, asking and requesting of them to invest in the infrastructure. 
So that doesn&#8217;t cause further damage to potentially life-threatening flood events like the one that Laprisha was just mentioning. And so, you know, that is the kind of work that we&#8217;re doing is seeking out ways that we can hold our corporate actors accountable, even as we&#8217;re asking our government entities to see to it that they&#8217;re, you know, extending as much of their authority as possible to protect us.
And making sure that they&#8217;re doing things like making sure that there aren&#8217;t more power outages and downed power lines and flooded substations, things that we know put our communities at risk and are only, you know, set to exacerbate the climate crisis as we know it. And we&#8217;ve already experienced it as Detroiters the last few summers. 
Stephen Henderson: Talk quickly about the Jemez principles, this idea of Democratic organizing and how that plays into environmental justice. 
Jamesha Johnson Greer: Absolutely. And so the Jemez principles are really, really central to the way that we have chosen to organize our goal for the critical decade really, is to take on this issue of climate justice with broad alliances and bold and unapologetic vision for justice. And it really requires us to understand how we can reclaim and take on our own power. Right. 
And so what does it look like for us to seek our own representation? So that&#8217;s looking for us to be able to speak for ourselves, to be able to speak directly to our government about the things that we want to see in our communities as it relates to climate and our health, and how do we work with other organizations as well in order to do that other entities in order to do that. So working in mutuality, for example. So those are just a few of those Jemez principles, but those are the ways that we at MEJC would like to see our work done and our guiding principles for the way that we&#8217;d like to do the work. 
Stephen Henderson: Yeah. And it&#8217;s really wonder. It&#8217;s a really wonderful tool for what we&#8217;re talking about. Laprisha I want to give you a chance. We&#8217;ve got a couple of minutes left to talk about just some things that you think we can be doing that make us safer in Detroit. That makes the environment better for us, that protects us from these things that are changing, that so many of them we don&#8217;t have a lot of control over. 
Laprisha Berry Daniels: So thank you for this opportunity. I would love to talk about what we do have control over and what we have had a recent win with. So Core City, a low financial resource community in Detroit, was being threatened with having open air, concrete pressure in their community and they fought back and they organized. I&#8217;m using some of the principles that Jamisha just talked about and have had a huge win. So the first thing they did is they spoke out against the permit that was going to be proposed. 
That permit was denied to the developer, and the next step for them was to ask that the concrete debris that was already in that location be cleaned up. And so after blight tickets by the city and a low level of enforcement by the city&#8230; community members kept pushing back. And we just found out today that the developer will be sued by the city for the nuisance that&#8217;s in that community. We just found out today that the mayor spoke out against this. 
And so having that type of support from local government, having that type of support from local enforcement is really important. But the way that that happened was through amplifying the voice of the community, the community showing up and saying that we will not allow this in our community. And so it sort of ties together everything that we&#8217;ve all been talking about in terms of enforcement and policy and community mobilizing in order to get this work done. 
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Local environmental advocates step up to fight climate’s impact on Black Detroiters

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Climate change continues to have an impact on some residents in Southeast Michigan. For the average homeowner, when it rains, one may grab a good book, kick their feet up and relax under the gloomy skies. For Detroit resident Semone Alexander, every time it rains, it’s anything but relaxing.  
As heavy rains have become more frequent in the last half-decade, so has the flooding of Alexander and other residents’ homes— so much so that many of the homes have fallen into disrepair. For Earth Month, One Detroit <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/">Senior Producer Bill Kubota</a> took a visit to Alexander’s home and talked with the <a href="https://www.uchcdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Community Housing Coalition</a> about the damage Detroit’s harsher weather conditions is causing to the city’s older homes.  
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Kubota talks with Coalition Executive Director Ted Phillips, who’s served as the director since 1986, about the increasing pace of record-setting rainfall we’ve been seeing in the region, as well as the issues around affordable housing and low-income tax credit housing in the city. Plus, he talks with Tim Bishop, who works in Repair Services for the Coalition, about the impact deferred maintenance has on older homes and how climate change may start to impact residents’ wallets too. 
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Tim Bishop, Repair Services, United Community Housing Coalition: So, if you want to take us back through. 
Semone Alexander, Detroit Resident: Problem areas, I guess we can come through this way. 
Bill Kubota, Senior Producer, One Detroit: Semone Alexander is showing Home repair pro, Tim Bishop her water damage on Detroit&#8217;s northeast side. 
Tim Bishop: The cause and effect there on the roof has lingered for some time. 
Semone Alexander: Yeah. This wood over here is rotting, so it has to be replaced before we&#8217;re able to do anything on the inside. 
Tim Bishop: Yeah, that&#8217;s way worse than I thought. That&#8217;s gonna have to be restructured. 
Semone Alexander: Normally, you would be like it&#8217;s raining, it&#8217;s a cool, calm day. But then when you&#8217;ve got house issues, you&#8217;re like please just please don&#8217;t rain today. You can stay cloudy, don&#8217;t rain. Cause it comes right in the house. 
Bill Kubota: For want of a roof, add structural repairs, new ceilings, and electrical work. You&#8217;ve been at this for a while. Have you seen it get more significant or worse, even? 
Ted Phillips, Executive Director, United Company Housing Coalition: I think it&#8217;s got a lot more significant the last several years. I&#8217;ve been director since 1986. Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen anything like what we&#8217;ve seen in the last, say, five years or so. It seems to be common now to hear on the radio news as you&#8217;re driving home, this is the worst amount of rain in this period of time, in, you know, 30 years or 40 years or ever. 
Semone Alexander: This spot is kind of new. This one shocked me when it came down. 
Bill Kubota: The United Community Housing Coalition, helps Detroiters avoid tax foreclosure and keeps them in their homes, despite the weather&#8217;s toll. 
Tim Bishop: These houses are more susceptible to climate change, I think because they don&#8217;t have good roofs. It&#8217;s an older structure and a lot of deferred maintenance down here. So, it&#8217;s going to impact these houses even more. 
Bill Kubota: With more storms, more high winds, damage from old trees. 
Tim Bishop: You know, it affects gutters. Gutters are all collapsed. They&#8217;re not maintained, but they have standing water against the foundation like this here. 
Bill Kubota: So much deferred maintenance. How long can these homes last? 
Ted Phillips: Unfortunately, though, we don&#8217;t have the luxury of saying we just are going to get rid of it all and build new housing, because the reality is there isn&#8217;t enough to build enough low-income housing. What passes as affordable housing is usually what&#8217;s called low-income tax credit housing. And I was just looking the other day that the top rental level for low-income tax credit housing is like $1,200 a month. Many of the people that we represent even working are at $2,000 or less a month. So, the affordable housing that, we call affordable housing in that fashion, is not very affordable for weatherization. 
Bill Kubota: Semone Alexander&#8217;s got more problems downstairs. 
Tim Bishop: Yeah. So, how far does this is spread out? 
Semone Alexander: Just this little spot.
Bill Kubota: Drainage trouble. Nothing like the big flood two years ago. Lost memorabilia and damaged appliances, but the pets can stay down here for now. 
Tim Bishop: We did the furnace a couple of years ago during COVID. Now we&#8217;re going to follow back up. We&#8217;re going to put central air, attach central air to the system courtesy of DTE. AC may seem like a luxury, but if it does heat up more and more then it becomes more of a necessity, right? 
Semone Alexander: Yeah, it does. 
Tim Bishop: It will be expensive to run that central air. I mean, climate change is going to affect you one way or another. It&#8217;s going to run your utility bill up and that just gobbles up more of your, you know, if somebody is on a limited income, that just takes a disproportionate amount out of their pocket. 
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Climate change could spell catastrophe for Detroit’s older homes

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Weathering the floods: Detroit neighborhood faces uncertain future due to climate change

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The COVID-19 pandemic shut down a lot of places since it began, the <a href="https://belleislenaturecenter.detroitzoo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belle Isle Nature Center</a> being one of them, but the nature center’s closure didn’t bring all bad outcomes. It allowed the nature center to complete a <a href="https://detroitzoo.org/press-release/belle-isle-nature-center-reopens-following-2-5-million-renovation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$2.5 million renovation</a> that allowed staff to start envisioning a redesign for the public space. The center, which is now re-open, updated the facility to reflect the vibrant intersection between Detroit’s urban core and the natural ecosystem that lives within it.
One Detroit producer Daijah Moss takes a visit to the newly renovated nature center to talk with Director Amy Greene about some of the new renovations visitors will see, like the young learners’ space and the bee vision exhibit, as well as some of the staple exhibits that made their return.
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Plus, Moss talks with Belle Isle Nature Center Education Specialist Sierra McWilliams about the <a href="https://belleislenaturecenter.detroitzoo.org/all-programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">variety of programs they offer</a> for children and adults of all ages, and the importance of having a nature center that’s accessible to Detroiters.
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The urban outdoors: Belle Isle Nature Center re-opens following $2.5 million renovation

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The City of Detroit has launched a <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/planning-and-development-department/joe-louis-greenway-neighborhood-planning-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two-year planning study</a> that allows residents to weigh in on the impact of the proposed $200 million Joe Louis Greenway project, the city&#8217;s proposal for connecting many of its neighborhoods to the riverfront.
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The 27.5-mile biking and walking trail would connect Detroit&#8217;s riverfront to parts of metro Detroit like Hamtramck, Highland Park and Dearborn. The study includes sections of each City Council district, apart from Districts 1 and 4, and builds upon previous feedback city officials have received from neighborhood residents.
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One Detroit producer <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> sits down with <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BridgeDetroit</a> reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/BryceHuffman313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryce Huffman</a>, as part of the organizations&#8217; ongoing news partnership, to learn more about the city&#8217;s two-year planning study that started in September, and what feedback city officials might receive about the greenway.
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Will Glover, Associate Producer, One Detroit: We&#8217;re going to talk about the Joe Louis Greenway. So, it is a bike path and walking path that&#8217;s being developed to connect some of the other communities around and in the city of Detroit. Just give us an update as to what the Joe Louis Greenway is, who it&#8217;s for, and when it&#8217;s happening.
Bryce Huffman, Reporter, BridgeDetroit: The Joe Louis Greenway is a 27-and-a-half mile biking and walking trail that will connect communities as far as Detroit&#8217;s riverfront, southeast in the city, to Hamtramck, Highland Park, and even Dearborn. So, it&#8217;s basically a loop that goes around and allows people to bike and walk-through different parts of the metro area. It&#8217;s really all about getting more green space in the city, more places for people to travel by bike without necessarily having to worry about car traffic, and just places for people to walk and ways to connect different city neighborhoods.
Will Glover: And where are we at as far as the actual build-out of the Greenway and also where is it being built out from? I know there&#8217;s some sort of connection to things like the Dequindre Cut.
Bryce Huffman: Yeah. Good questions. One of the plans is to extend the Dequindre Cut from where it currently ends at Mack and taking it to East Grand Boulevard across from I-94. And that&#8217;s really a way to connect it to Hamtramck. Right now, currently, they&#8217;ve already begun construction in southwest Detroit over the Gordie Howe Bridge area that they are constructing. So that&#8217;s where construction has begun so far.
Will Glover: I think that really touches on the city&#8217;s goal of becoming a city of the future, creating the places and spaces where people actually want to spend their time, and making it all very easy to navigate. So, with that said, you mentioned that it&#8217;s going to connect Detroit to Hamtramck. What else will the Greenway be connecting the city to? How far out and how interconnected are we going to be?
Bryce Huffman: Yeah. So along with Hamtramck, there will also be connections to and through Highland Park, and then when you get in the west side of the city it&#8217;ll connect to Dearborn. So different communities. It&#8217;s not going to connect all the way out to some of the further Metro Detroit suburbs, but the ones that kind of border inside the city and next to the city are going to be the ones that the Greenway is impacting.
And actually, they just launched a neighborhood planning study all around making sure that the areas in the Greenway that are going to be impacted, the neighborhoods that will be impacted by construction, and the final product get a say in what&#8217;s going to happen and understand what changes might be coming to their neighborhood, what opportunities might be coming to their neighborhood, and things to be looking out for for the next few years.
Will Glover: Because you&#8217;re mentioning the neighborhoods, one of the interesting things that I saw was something about a signage program. Tell us a little bit about that.
Bryce Huffman: Yes. So, I was at a meeting a couple of weeks ago and they talked about this neighborhood signage program, which is all about making sure that cyclists and walkers know where they&#8217;re at and know a little bit of the history and culture of the neighborhoods they&#8217;re in.
So, the first neighborhood that they&#8217;re starting this in is the Midwest Neighborhood, which is in the city&#8217;s District Six on the West Side. And it&#8217;ll be between&#8230; I want to say Warren and Joy Road are where the signs are going to be posted up. So, the idea is if you&#8217;re biking through a neighborhood, you can look at the sign and get a sense of the neighborhood you&#8217;re in and understand that history.
One of the big concerns a lot of people in Detroit have had, in general, is that their neighborhoods, that history, that culture is being erased or being displaced. So, this signage program is really about honoring those people and the people that made the neighborhoods what they are today.
Will Glover: Because we&#8217;re talking about the people and that&#8217;s really who this is all for, what has been the response of Detroiters hearing about this project going on? Are people on board? I know, usually, there&#8217;s a little bit of pushback or concern about whether or not the residents&#8217; voices are going to be heard, whether their ideas are going to be included, and whether their needs are going to be met. Have you seen any friction in this process?
Bryce Huffman: Yeah. So, it&#8217;s really interesting. A lot of the times when I cover things where residents are allowed to give feedback, you hear a lot of pushback against design ideas or you hear a lot of concerns about a design idea or a plan.
So far, there have really been two things of note. First, is that there are a lot of residents, particularly in the McDougall-Hunt and Poletown East areas of the city, that when I asked them about the Dequindre-Cut extension plan they had never heard of it. They say no one from the city had talked to them about it.
But very interestingly, when I actually talked about what the plan is and why they want to do it, just about everyone was on board, very overwhelmingly supportive of the idea, very overwhelmingly in favor of the Greenway, in general, and the expansion of the Dequindre-Cut and like the idea of going into these neighborhoods and making sure people know where they are and what that neighborhood is all about.
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What does it take to create beautiful flower arrangements year-round in Michigan? &#8220;Life in Bloom&#8221; host, and author of<a href="https://jschwanke.com/bioandmedia/publications/"> &#8220;Fun With Flowers&#8221; and &#8220;Bloom 365,&#8221;</a> J Schwanke invites WRCJ radio host and producer<a href="https://www.wrcjfm.org/live-with-c/"> Cecelia Sharpe</a> into his Grand Rapids home for a lesson on flower arranging. Together, they create a two-sided flower arrangement and talk about how viewers can build their own at home. 
<a href="https://twitter.com/JSchwanke">Schwanke</a> talks about some common obstacles, like bacteria, to consider when creating a flower arrangement, the variety of household items that can be used when arranging, and where viewers can find more resources. Plus, Sharpe learns about some of the flowers used in their arrangement and how Michiganders can create arrangements through all four seasons. 
&#8220;Life in Bloom&#8221; is a<a href="https://www.pbs.org/show/j-schwankes-life-in-bloom/"> PBS series</a>, now in its fourth season, that shows viewers how to bring the beauty of flowers into their surroundings and demonstrates how living a life surrounded by colorful blossoms can reduce stress, instill wellness, and enhance happiness. Watch &#8220;Life in Bloom&#8221; with J Schwanke on Detroit Public Television&#8217;s WTVS Create channel on Sundays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays at 6 a.m. ET.
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Cecelia Sharpe, Producer/Host, WRCJ 90.9 FM: I am here with the host and creator of the television show Life in Bloom, as well as the author of Fun with Flowers, J Schwanke. And he&#8217;s going to show us how to make a flower arrangement with these lovely flowers that he has right here before us. So, J, you&#8217;ve got some great stuff here.
J Schwanke, Host, &#8220;Life in Bloom&#8221;/Author, &#8220;Fun with Flowers&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Bloom 365&#8221;: Right?
Cecelia Sharpe: Let&#8217;s make an arrangement.
J Schwanke: Awesome. So this is all out of the garden.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: So that&#8217;s this time of year. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on. So we&#8217;ve got. And typically, when you might make an arrangement, you could make it loose inside here with just water inside. You could use flower foam that you&#8217;ve soaked and put inside here.
J Schwanke: Today, we&#8217;re going to work with chicken wire. So what we would do is we take a piece of chicken wire. We kind of form fit it and we drop it down in the lip of this vase. Then that provides a structure inside there that will hold our flowers in place.
J Schwanke: We&#8217;re going to start with that with the greens that we have. And so greens always are the first thing that I do in an arrangement because I want that greenery to help form a structure. And what we&#8217;re going to do is we&#8217;re going to make what some people call a two-sided arrangement.
J Schwanke: So it&#8217;s going to be taller on two sides, and it&#8217;s going to be lower in the middle. All right.
Cecelia Sharpe: All right. A two-sided arrangement.
J Schwanke: A two-sided arrangement. Now, the other thing I love to do is I love to forage in the yard. This is actually a spirea bush that doesn&#8217;t have any blooms left on it. So but these are what&#8217;s left afterward.
Cecelia Sharpe: It&#8217;s a pretty fuchsia color.
J Schwanke: It&#8217;s still fun to be able to use something like that. Right? And so we will use that. I&#8217;m removing all the leaves that would fall below the waterline when I stick it down inside there.
Cecelia Sharpe: Why do you do that?
J Schwanke: The number one enemy to flowers is bacteria.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: So if we have leaves that fall below the waterline, they&#8217;re going to degrade very quickly. And so that will cause bacteria in the water, which is going to shorten the vase life of our flowers. If we remove it, then we get clean stems going down inside our water. And so it will remain cleaner longer.
Cecelia Sharpe: So I have a question for you.
J Schwanke: Yes, ma&#8217;am.
Cecelia Sharpe: How can people learn how to make arrangements aside from, of course, watching &#8220;Life in Bloom?&#8221;
J Schwanke: I have a YouTube channel, J Schwanke&#8217;s YouTube channel. It&#8217;s a great opportunity because there&#8217;s hundreds of videos there that literally teach you and I have a whole series of From the Garden. So you can learn about the different types of flowers you have in the garden.
J Schwanke: We do some specifically with zinnias, some with dahlias, somewhat different types of flowers so that you can learn how to use those. And I think that that&#8217;s really important for people because YouTube is great because it gives you short little snippets and you can save it and you can work with it later. So that&#8217;s good, too.
Cecelia Sharpe: Is that a hosta?
J Schwanke: It is a hosta leaf.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: Okay. So one of my favorites from the Garden, because it gives us a really big grounding point for our arrangement right here. And having that guy up there, it&#8217;s going to give us a visual spot for the eye to rest.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK. I smell something. It smells really good.
J Schwanke: Does it smell like pineapples? This is pineapple sage.
Cecelia Sharpe: Oh, that smells great.
J Schwanke: Right? So I love pineapple sage. It&#8217;s variegated. Has those beautiful little blooms on it. So now we&#8217;re going to use some of our zinnias and our and these beautiful little black-eyed Susans, one of my favorites because it makes us happy. Right?
Cecelia Sharpe: I love the colors.
J Schwanke: Those flowers make us happy.
Cecelia Sharpe: The orange and the fuchsia oh, the green one is beautiful.
J Schwanke: Isn&#8217;t it true? Right?
Cecelia Sharpe: Oh, wow. Oh, thanks.
J Schwanke: I mean, isn&#8217;t it pretty? Green is one of my favorites because they are so, they&#8217;re unexpected. I think people are like&#8230;
Cecelia Sharpe: Yeah.
J Schwanke: Where did that flower come from? Is that a green flower?
Cecelia Sharpe: Right, right.
J Schwanke: How in the world did we come up with a green flower?
Cecelia Sharpe: We&#8217;ve got to get this one in here.
J Schwanke: I love it. We&#8217;re going to use two of these other softer greens first.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: And remember, we&#8217;re following this two-sided arrangement. So we&#8217;ve got it up here and then it&#8217;s going to get lower and tighter in here. There are so many people who will teach you how to do flower arranging. And I think that that&#8217;s an important concept about it. But I also think that you should find something that you really love, a method that you love with the flowers, and start to create that direction. Because when you do that, you&#8217;re going to continue to have a good feeling about what you&#8217;re doing and you&#8217;re going to like what you&#8217;ve done.
J Schwanke: And so the other thing I always encourage people to is if you don&#8217;t like where something goes, you can move it.
Cecelia Sharpe: You make us feel so good, J, about arranging flowers and believing in ourselves. You can have fun with it and make it what you want.
J Schwanke: It&#8217;s the power of flowers. You&#8217;re so right.
Cecelia Sharpe: What did you call that one again?
J Schwanke: Black-eyed Susan.
Cecelia Sharpe: Black-eye Susan.
J Schwanke: So it&#8217;s part of the Asteraceae family, which has about 150 different things in it. Including zinnias, sunflowers, daisies, Shasta daisies. All of those are in that family.
J Schwanke: OK. So now I&#8217;ve saved a couple of special things for last.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK. Like what?
J Schwanke: So we have a piece of phlox.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: That looks like that. And that piece of phlox, I love these because they smell really good if you want to smell.
Cecelia Sharpe: Sure. Oh, yeah. It&#8217;s really fragrant.
J Schwanke: It is phlox, a late summer bloomer.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: OK. We&#8217;re going to put him in last probably.
Cecelia Sharpe: OK.
J Schwanke: Then we have a spider. An assimilated dahlia. OK.
Cecelia Sharpe: Assimilated.
J Schwanke: Assimilated, which means that as these petals come out, they&#8217;re going to look like they were shredded on the end. So they&#8217;re like lace, right? And that&#8217;s going to be our focal flower. We&#8217;re going to put it right down here in the center of our bouquet like, nice and low.
J Schwanke: And then we&#8217;ve got this other little guy. And this is a collarette type of dahlia, which is also it looks like a daisy. So the interesting thing about dahlias is there&#8217;s thousands of species of dahlias.
Cecelia Sharpe: J, you make this look so easy.
J Schwanke: I think that&#8217;s very interesting because people say that to me a lot, and I think it&#8217;s simply practice. I think I&#8217;ve made maybe thousands, if not millions of flower arrangements because I make a flower arrangement every single day.
Cecelia Sharpe: Every day.
J Schwanke: And that&#8217;s just a way of practicing. So everyone can make it look this easy. You&#8217;re going to find things that work. You&#8217;re going to find things that don&#8217;t work. And so our listeners and our viewers can do that, too.
J Schwanke: If you take the time to enjoy the process and feel the release of this, those endorphins because people say to me all the time, I felt so good while I was making the arrangement. Exactly. That&#8217;s the power of the flowers. That&#8217;s what they do. That&#8217;s how they help us create a flower lifestyle.
Cecelia Sharpe: J, thank you so much for inviting me into your home.
J Schwanke: Thank you for coming.
Cecelia Sharpe: Absolutely. And for showing us how to make a wonderful flower arrangement, this two-sided flower arrangement, and talking about the benefits of flowers and how we can keep those flowers going every day, every season here in Michigan. Thank you so, so much.
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‘Life in Bloom’ host J Schwanke teaches the art of making beautiful flower arrangements

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The industrial history of Great Lakes communities across the region was primarily fueled by coal, and reminders of the era remain. Numerous coal ash ponds are located around the region and hold the remains generated by these power sources. Coal ash is toxic, containing mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals, and it could potentially<a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/aging-infrastructure-highlighted-by-benton-harbors-continued-water-crisis/"> threaten Michigan&#8217;s drinking water</a>, as well as the Great Lakes. 
A few miles south on the Lake Michigan shoreline is the town of Waukegan, Illinois, population of about 89,000, where several coal ash sites sit about 100 yards from Lake Michigan. “Waukegan has suffered from industrial pollution. We have five superfund sites,” said Dulce Ortiz, a lifelong resident and community activist. “So we’ve seen the horrors that these companies have done to our community.”  
Detroit Public TV&#8217;s<a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/"> &#8220;Great Lakes Now&#8221;</a> host<a href="https://twitter.com/wadetwiler"> Ward Detwiler</a> speaks with Northwestern University professor and journalist<a href="http://www.karilydersen.net/"> Kari Lydersen</a> about the research being done by the<a href="https://energynews.us/"> Energy News Network</a> and a group of Lydersen&#8217;s journalism students and the efforts to prevent coal ash from contaminating Michigan&#8217;s environment. 
One Detroit collaborated with Great Lakes Now to produce this featured story, part of Great Lakes Now’s episode <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/poisonous-ponds-tackling-toxic-coal-ash-episode-2208/">“Poisonous Ponds: Tackling Toxic Coal Ash.”</a>
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Ward Detwiler, Host, Great Lakes Now: Kari, to start out, what is coal ash exactly and why is it something we should know about?
Kari Lydersen, Asst. Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University:  Yeah. What is coal ash? It&#8217;s a toxic byproduct of burning coal to make electricity. And even as coal plants around the country, including in Michigan, have closed in high numbers, this coal ash is left over and there&#8217;s nearly a billion tons of it and it&#8217;s toxic. And coal plants by nature are near water, near rivers and lakes, so the coal ash is usually stored on site in big pits or ponds right near these rivers and lakes. And the great majority nationwide, including in Michigan, of these pits and ponds are also unlined. So there&#8217;s really nothing much separating the toxic coal ash from the groundwater.
It has the potential to contaminate groundwater and if you&#8217;re relying on a well for water, that could be your household water. And it could also get into municipal water supplies or just into lakes and rivers where people are fishing and recreating. So, it is a really big ecological and environmental threat that a lot of people actually don&#8217;t even know about.
Ward Detwiler:  So how is this issue playing out in Michigan and specifically in southeast Michigan?
Kari Lyderssen: In Michigan, there are about 80 coal ash pits and ponds where this toxic material is being stored on the site of coal plants that are either still operating or closed. And in southeast Michigan, there&#8217;s coal ash at the River Rouge site, at several DTE electric sites and Consumers Energy sites. The Michigan sites tend to be on the West Coast, along Lake Michigan and then also in the Detroit area. And actually the great majority of the sites it has proven to be contaminating groundwater, that&#8217;s true in Michigan and around the country as well.
Ward Detwiler: So, if these coal plants are closing, does the problem just go away?
Kari Lydersen: Not at all, the coal ash is still there for good unless it&#8217;s removed. So, it&#8217;s something that even as all these coal plants have closed, we get rid of the air pollution from the coal plants, but we still have to deal with the coal ash. One interesting thing in Michigan, there&#8217;s more plans in Michigan than in other states to actually remove the coal ash, which is generally a good thing, but that can raise some questions, too. They&#8217;ll take it to landfills. How will they do that transportation? You&#8217;re talking like hundreds of trucks a day for a long time, in a lot of cases, when they&#8217;re bringing it to a landfill. And then also, how quickly will they do it? That&#8217;s the plan, but will in fact still just sit in place for a long time.
Ward Detwiler: So what are some of the options for cleaning this up and keeping it out of the drinking water?
Kari Lydersen: We don&#8217;t really know when and where it&#8217;s getting into drinking water. There&#8217;s some sites nationwide where contamination from coal ash and water supplies has been documented. But one of the bigger problems is we just don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on with it, which is all the more reason to remove that coal ash or make sure it&#8217;s stored safely. So yeah, the main options are leaving it in place, which is usually not a good option, but the option that a lot of companies are planning to take, or removing it, like a lot of companies in Detroit are looking to do. And then, what a lot of people see as the best option, is what they call beneficial reuse, which is basically recycling it. Coal ash is actually used safely as a major ingredient in concrete and other building materials and also to sort of build up lands. So, there&#8217;s unsafe ways to do that in terms of building up land, but there&#8217;s also really safe ways to recycle coal ash, and then it&#8217;s not contaminating groundwater.
Ward Detwiler: What regulation is there for coal ash? Is it the state&#8217;s responsibility or is the federal government taking the lead?
Kari Lydersen: There is a federal rule from 2015 that says, the companies need to test the groundwater and make those records publicly available and come up with plans to close these coal ash sites in a way that they are not contaminating the water. So that rule, the companies did do a lot of testing and put a lot of data online, but in terms of the requirements to safely close the sites, they were largely being ignored and the government really wasn&#8217;t taking much action. And then, during the Trump administration, the rules were actually loosened and really no enforcement was carried out.
But just this year, starting in January, the EPA has really basically said it&#8217;s going to take these rules seriously and it started issuing some requirements and some decisions and some denials of extensions on closing these sites. In some states, they actually have laws that are specific to coal ash, and then they have other environmental rules that could be used to crack down on coal ash. But in most cases, the states have been fairly lax in doing anything regulatory about coal ash either.
Ward Detwiler: What do we know about the health risks for people if they drink water that&#8217;s been contaminated with coal ash?
Kari Lydersen:  Well, we know these heavy metals are bad. Some of them are neurotoxins that affect brain development and health. Some of them are linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease and other diseases. So these heavy metals — arsenic, cobalt, lithium, boron — these are definitely things you want to avoid drinking or having too much contact with. We don&#8217;t really know to what extent they are in drinking water and putting people at risk, but there&#8217;s definitely pathways for them to get into drinking water, especially private wells and even municipal water supplies. The health risks it causes play out over time, so you&#8217;ll never know exactly what might have contributed to you developing cancer or a disease like that. So, you know that exposure to these metals in coal ash, that&#8217;s the kind of risk that this raises.
Ward Detwiler:  If you had a crystal ball, what do you see as some of the future options for regulations or laws or even private industry taking responsibility for coal ash?
Kari Lydersen: Well, the rules that we have in place on the federal level from 2015 actually do a lot to protect us or to start cleaning up the coal ash. So, I can&#8217;t predict what&#8217;s going to happen in the next presidential election, but if we have a switch, it&#8217;s safe to say that that progress might stop or even be rolled back on the federal clean-ups. I think we could see some stepped-up action from state governments and then industry.
A crazy thing is, doing a good cleanup doesn&#8217;t necessarily even cost industry anything because they bill it to the ratepayers in most states. So, we have high energy prices right now, which might make it less likely that companies will want to get their customers mad by raising their energy prices even more. But at the same time, if a company can do the right thing and they actually get to make a profit on that spending in some states. So, you know, maybe that will become actually more common.
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Placemaking — it’s the term often used to describe the process of increasing the quality of shared public spaces where business owners, workers and families can gather. When it comes to placemaking efforts, what has Michigan done and have those investments paid off today?
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From One Detroit’s Future of Work virtual town hall, “Creating Communities: The Path to Placemaking,” Future of Work host Will Glover talks with  <a href="https://techtowndetroit.org/">TechTown</a> President &amp; CEO Ned Staebler, <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/">Detroit Future City</a> Chief Executive Officer Anika Goss, Author of <a href="https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/reimagining-detroit">“Reimagining Detroit”</a> and former Detroit Free Press Senior Business Columnist <a href="https://www.freep.com/staff/2647746001/john-gallagher/">John Gallagher</a>, and <a href="https://semcog.org/">Southeast Michigan Council of Governments</a> (SEMCOG) Planning Director Kevin Vettraino about whether Southeast Michigan has the infrastructure, amenities and investments to attract and retain the future of workforce talent, the barriers against placemaking efforts, how the future of work intersects with residents’ quality of life, and the need for strategic city planning and public transit in Michigan.
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Will Glover, Assoc. Producer, One Detroit: Michigan is aging and the population growth rate has been relatively flat over the last decade. Attracting young, talented people to live, work and play in the glove state is a major factor in Michigan&#8217;s growth and future economic health. One way to lure entrepreneurs, new families and knowledge economy workers to the region is placemaking. Veteran journalist and author, John Gallagher, has covered placemaking for years.  
John Gallagher, Author and Veteran Journalist: There&#8217;s general agreement that placemaking involves a variety of building types and sizes and uses. So you&#8217;re mixing retail, residential, you know, civic entertainment, commercial, I mean, almost everything but industrial.  
There needs to be a variety of transportation options. So you have, not limited to cars, but including busses, trams, bicycles, bike lanes. The district needs to be very walkable and a very heavy emphasis on what&#8217;s good for pedestrians or wider sidewalks. A lot of sidewalk cafes. Now, you know, really safe intersections where people can cross quite easily, probably some civic space like parks or plazas and all done up in a very lively, walkable way. So, as you said, people can live and work and play within or in a relatively compact area.  
Will Glover: Anika, I&#8217;d like to bring you in because I think the term placemaking and the thought process behind it can be a little elusive for anyone who&#8217;s not directly familiar with it.  
So with the work that you do, I would ask if you can just explain a little bit about what the specifics are. What are we talking about when we&#8217;re talking about what makes a good place? What are the physical elements that go into that type of planning and make a place attractive for someone to want to live?
Anika Goss, CEO, Detroit Future City: When we think of placemaking, we should be thinking about communities that are amenity-rich, that are places where you would want to raise your family, that you can thrive, no matter where you are in your life. Whether you&#8217;re a single person, as a single young person or a single older person.  
Will Glover: Ned I&#8217;d like to bring you in to talk about creating good places and designing and developing places around those accommodations. What does that do for business?  
Ned Staebler, President &amp; CEO, TechTown: Businesses especially, well, all businesses thrive on people. So it could be people walking by that are customers or it could be employees that are coming to work in an office location. And in both cases, those folks are looking for the same thing. And I think sometimes we overcomplicate this. You know, we think of it as something that they have in other places that it&#8217;s in, as I think you said, in Europe or in bigger cities or whatnot. But, you know, placemaking to some extent is pretty simple.  
Is, you know, places that people feel comfortable, that have safety, that have lighting, that have crosswalks, that are designed with the current residents in mind. Now you say, &#8220;Oh, you know, that will attract other people.&#8221; Well, sure, because people want to be around those things.  
Will Glover: Director of Planning for the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, Kevin Vettraino, points out that this isn&#8217;t just a matter of having more cafes and nicer crosswalks.  
Kevin Vettraino, Planning Director, SEMCOG: What we need to be thinking about is, how are we designing our spaces and our land use regardless of where you are in the region. Are our roads and our sidewalks and our transportation networks supporting places that people feel comfortable, people feel safe, that are accessible?  
I think that word has come up a couple of times, and accessible is for all ages. We&#8217;re an aging region. We&#8217;re an aging nation and that&#8217;s not anything that&#8217;s new. We&#8217;ve been thinking about it for a long time, but we have to make sure that our places are accessible, open and equitable for all. 
Will Glover: Although progress is being made all around the state, the debate about how public investment is allocated remains. 
Anika Goss: I can tell you for statewide and some of the trends that we&#8217;re seeing, is that we continue to lose younger people. Right. Because we&#8217;re not investing with young people in mind for our urban centers. With losing young people as an economic base, you end up losing your future middle-class, working-family base, right? And that is regardless of race. We&#8217;re seeing across the board, younger people are going to school in Michigan and then leaving and finding other places to live.  
Will Glover: Where does Michigan stand regionally in comparison to Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, these other places that are Midwestern towns and states that we are in direct competition with?
John Gallagher: Yeah, well, I think we&#8217;ve lost ground in a lot of ways. Our output, our economic output statewide, even though it&#8217;s growing, is growing a lot slower than other cities. We used to be a top ten state in terms of economic output. Now we&#8217;re about 13th or so. We&#8217;re dead last in some areas. That was a big discussion point up at Mackinac recently. 
I don&#8217;t think Ohio or Illinois are necessarily better than we are in terms of placemaking. I think the modern American urban landscape is mostly, you know, sprawl land. But I think Michigan really needs to wake up. I mean, in terms of educational achievement, we&#8217;re lagging. In terms of amenities for young people, we&#8217;re lagging. Our population is just flat, whereas other, you know, the Sunbelt continues to grow.  
Ned Staebler: Since 1990, 1989, we&#8217;ve dropped in per capita income in Michigan precipitously. We&#8217;re now down to like 34th in the country, whereas we used to be in the low teens. We are relatively a much poorer state than we were 30, 40 years ago. And, you know, I will even challenge your premise of, how are we competing with Ohio and Illinois? 
The answer is, John&#8217;s correct. We&#8217;re not competing very well with them. They&#8217;re beating us. But I&#8217;d argue that we don&#8217;t even want to compete with them because, you know, he also correctly pointed out that even Ohio and Illinois aren&#8217;t really doing all that well in this area. But other states like Minnesota or I think you mentioned Seattle and Washington and Boston, Massachusetts, those are the states we should be competing with and they&#8217;re kicking our butts. So let&#8217;s just be honest with it. They&#8217;re moving right up. 
And, you know, go into it, what Kevin talked about all the things we need to do. These aren&#8217;t accidents. You know, it&#8217;s not like, &#8220;Oops, we accidentally made a nicer place.&#8221; These are investments. They require us to make long-term investments in things like transit and walkability and safety and, you know, education in schools. 
And Michigan&#8217;s dead last in almost all of that stuff. Behind Ohio and Illinois, but way behind Washington, Virginia, Colorado, California, you know, a lot of other states are intentionally doing a lot more than us. And if we don&#8217;t change that, we&#8217;re going to keep slipping further and further behind. And I think the very first thing we need to do is change our mentality of who we&#8217;re competing with.  
Will Glover: John, I would like to give you the last word. What is your thought as to, what is the low-hanging fruit? What should be our main focus?  
John Gallagher: Public transit. You know, we have an appalling lack of public transit. If you travel to any of the great cities, you know, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Chicago, Washington, you know, you can get anywhere on public transit and you don&#8217;t need a car. And that is an economic development tool as well. I mean, that&#8217;s great for business. It&#8217;s not just that it&#8217;s kind of convenient to get around. I mean, it really is, you know, the stuff that makes the whole society go. So, you know, reliable, safe, relatively inexpensive public transit is the key.  
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Placemaking: The Path to Increasing Quality of Life, Talent Attraction in Michigan

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This story originally aired on Detroit Public Television&#8217;s <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/homes-invaders-episode-2206/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a>.
Your house could be making you sick. When you think about environmental issues, you might picture toxic chemicals in the air or the water, but the environment we inhabit most of the time is our homes, and there can be problems there, too.
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Some of these issues are because of the aging housing stock. In Detroit, for example, 80 percent of housing units were built before 1960, meaning older windows, lead paint, and aging heating and cooling systems are becoming big problems. Other issues, like damaged roofs or<a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/bridgedetroit-content/flooding-relief-available-for-some-detroit-home-owners-bridge-detroit/"> flooded basements</a>, can lead to mold and chronic respiratory issues for the people living in these homes.
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Join<a href="https://www.ninaignaczak.com/bio/"> environmental journalist Nina Ignaczak</a> for a look at the environmental justice efforts happening in cities like Detroit. Nina takes us inside the home of Thomasenia Weston, a longtime Detroit resident living with environmental issues in her home on the city&#8217;s southwest side. Plus, gain insights and perspective from a Detroiter who created a community and climate-focused consulting firm, as well as a physician who thinks about housing as a vital piece of public health. 
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Anna Sysling, Producer, Great Lakes Now: Housing stock in Great Lakes cities is aging. And in Detroit, 80% of housing units were built before 1960. So it&#8217;s no surprise that things like old windows, lead paint and aging, and heating and cooling systems are becoming a big problem for residents and the planet.
It&#8217;s something journalist Nina Ignaczak has been thinking about. Last year she co-wrote a piece for Outlier Media about the intersection of Detroit housing and environmental issues.
Nina Ignaczak, Environmental Journalist: What we came to discover through reporting, especially on issues like asthma, is that housing is as much of an environmental health issue and an environmental stressor to Detroiters as much as air pollution and water quality.
Anna Sysling: Some of the most common and dangerous issues in these old homes are lead paint and lead water service lines. Lead can create a variety of neurological and developmental issues, particularly in children. Other issues like damaged roofs or flooded basements can lead to mold and chronic respiratory issues like asthma.
Thomasenia Westin, Resident of Southwest Detroit: We all have asthma because of the basement, has mold and mildew in it.
Anna Sysling: Thomasenia Westin lives on the southwest side of Detroit with her grandchildren. She&#8217;s been in her home for more than 20 years and has experienced a variety of issues that illustrate the many ways our homes and the areas surrounding them can become a threat to our health.
Thomasenia Westin: I don&#8217;t get much sleep. You know, once you&#8217;re woken up, you&#8217;re woken up. It&#8217;s not like you just like go back to sleep. And, you know, the crazy, crazy thing about it is, is the house shakes. My bed shakes, because of the rumbling of the trunks. And when it&#8217;s like a bunch of them, you think you&#8217;re on a rollercoaster ride.
Anna Sysling: Thomasenia says she suffered some hearing loss and a constant ringing in her ears called tinnitus as a result of the constant truck traffic just outside her home.
Thomasenia Westin: It&#8217;s awful and it&#8217;s making my quality of life crap.
Anna Sysling: Another issue with old housing stock is old windows and insufficient insulation, leading to high energy bills and in some cases, dangerous indoor temperatures.
Jalonne White-Newsome, CEO &amp; Founder, Empowering a Green Environment and Economy LLC: Climate change has these, you know, multitude of effects. But extreme heat was the one that really brought me into this space of climate change research, basically, because my grandparents were experiencing it firsthand.
Speaker 1: Jalonne White-Newsome is a native Detroiter and the CEO and founder of Empowering a Green Environment and Economy LLC, a community and climate-focused consulting firm.
Jalonne White-Newsome: My parents have been in a home that unfortunately has suffered flooding five times in the last three years. And it&#8217;s not just a little bit of water, sprinkle of water in the basement, but it&#8217;s been feet. Up to eight or nine feet of water in their basement.
Jalonne White-Newsome: And so when I think about how climate change is impacting me personally and the lives of my family members, it has caused stress. It has caused health issues. It has caused for them to have the need to relocate and really be displaced from their home. It&#8217;s been a financial strain. All of those things.
Anna Sysling: And the data reveals a disturbing trend. Housing-related health problems tend to be most severe in low-income communities of color, meaning that this is an environmental justice issue.
Nina Ignaczak: So we know that the practice of redlining, which concentrated poor people, poor, low income, predominantly people of color into certain areas, created areas of disinvestment. And those areas were disinvested, in terms of maintenance of the homes, in terms of lack of attention to neighborhood amenities like trees.
Nina Ignaczak: They also tended to be places that were easy to put roads through and highways through. And so the people living in these areas have just had to deal with multiple environmental stressors. All of these things just kind of pile up and create a very unhealthy environment.
Jalonne White-Newsome:  You have people living in communities that don&#8217;t have clean air, don&#8217;t have clean water, and they are actually not healthy places to be. And so when you talk about environmental justice, to me it&#8217;s the goal or the aspiration because we all want to live in an environment that is healthy, that&#8217;s safe and clean.
Jalonne White-Newsome: And so environmental justice is that movement of people, that grassroots movement of people, regular citizens, regular folks that are saying, I&#8217;m not going to tolerate this anymore. So we need to change our laws. We need to change our practices. We want to demand an environment that we can be healthy in.
Anna Sysling: Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara is an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. She&#8217;s a physician and an advocate for health equity.
Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine: We know that when we are in homes that are not protected against those toxins, folks experience either new illnesses or if they have illnesses, those illnesses are worsened. We know and studies show that when you have a healthy neighborhood, first of all, when your house is part of a neighborhood and a community with strong cohesion, where folks are together, working together, that folks are healthier in those places.
Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim: And so that becomes very, very key. When you have a place where a neighborhood or community where you have homes that are old and not maintained and you have folks that are falling ill, that impacts upon the health and wellness of everybody in that area. As a matter of fact.
Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim: So healthy communities, healthy neighborhoods, folks who are in a stable, affordable, well-maintained homes are really key to building a healthy society that can prosper and thrive. It&#8217;s all interconnected.
Anna Sysling: In the summer of 2021, Detroiters were surveyed about how the city should spend $426 million dollars in federal funds that it would receive for community investment under the American Rescue Plan Act. Their top choice Rebuild our neighborhoods.
Later that year, the city created Renew Detroit, an initiative that will use $30 million dollars in federal ARPA funds to pay for critical home repairs. Other cities also plan to use ARPA funds to address problems with aging homes. It&#8217;s a big step, but the cost to correct the problem is huge.
Nina Ignaczak: Michigan Poverty Solutions, which is a think tank out of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor set the cost at bringing every home in the metro area up to a healthy standard at 2 billion. So it would, the cost is as much or more as it would cost to fix our water infrastructure, for example. It&#8217;s a massive, massive cost.
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Great Lakes Now | Hazardous housing: Environmental issues in older homes could lead to health issues

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To land a spot on the Detroit Free Press’s <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/restaurant-of-the-year/2022/02/09/detroit-free-press-2022-10-best-new-restaurants/6711551001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Top 10 Best New Restaurants in metro Detroit”</a> list, written by the newspaper&#8217;s new Dining &amp; Restaurant Critic <a href="https://twitter.com/ladyluff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lyndsay Green</a>, restaurants need more than delicious food and an inviting ambiance. In Green’s opinion, restaurants with a large focus on diversity, sustainability and other humanitarian or environmental efforts rose above the rest. Taking the top restaurant spot this year is the <a href="https://www.sozairestaurant.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clawson newcomer</a>, Sozai Restaurant.
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<figure id="attachment_24147" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24147" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-24147" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sozai-Still-5.jpg" alt="Sustainable Sushi" width="600" height="338" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-24147" class="wp-caption-text">Sozai Restaurant Owner and chef Hamije Sato identifies the fish used in his sustainable sushi dinner plate | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
One Detroit Editor Chris Jordan met up with Green at <a href="https://www.whitewolfbakery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Wolf Japanese Patisserie</a>, in Clawson’s thriving culinary community, to talk about the sustainability efforts that landed Sozai the top honors this year. Then, Jordan heads down to Sozai Restaurant himself to talk with owner and chef Hajime Sato and get a taste of his sustainable sushi. 
Though sustainable sushi isn’t a term you’ll hear mentioned a lot among those in the seafood industry. Chef Sato’s Sozai is only one of a few restaurants across the nation serving sushi sustainably. According to chef Sato, more than one-third of seafood served in America’s restaurants is unsustainable. 
<figure id="attachment_24162" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24162" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-24162" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sozai-Still-2.jpg" alt="Sozai Restaurant " width="600" height="338" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-24162" class="wp-caption-text">Sozai Restaurant owner and chef Hamije Sato (right) preps sushi for dinner at his restaurant with his employee. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
That’s something chef Sato is trying to change, though the trend isn’t quick to catch on. Jordan joins chef Sato at Sozai Restaurant’s sushi bar to learn more about the sacrifice that’s needed to change the landscape of sustainability in seafood, the local fish he features from the Great Lakes, and how sushi lovers can practice greater sustainability while enjoying a meal out. Plus, chef Sato shares his thoughts on what’s cooking in metro Detroit’s culinary scene.
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Lyndsay C. Green, Restaurant &amp; Dining Critic, Detroit Free Press I wanted to really celebrate restaurants that are bringing a perspective to an area, and I think that that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeing with new restaurants and seeing here in Clawson. For Sozai specifically, it&#8217;s that perspective of wanting to serve sustainable sushi.
Chris Jordan, Editor, One Detroit: Clawson, a small metro Detroit city with a thriving restaurant scene. During the first year of the pandemic, we followed Clawson small businesses as they weathered the storm.
Chris Jordan Editor, One Detroit But since then, a new restaurant has opened and was named the Detroit Free Press Restaurant of the Year. Sozai by chef Hajime Sato, a new resident of Clawson who recently moved here from Seattle. Sozai is one of just a small handful of restaurants in the whole country serving sustainable sushi.
I met up with free press food critic Lyndsay Green in downtown Clawson, at White Wolf Japanese Patisserie, to discuss her top ten new restaurants list and why Sozai got the top honor.
Chris Jordan: Your list struck me as very unique because there really was a strong focus on, you know, as you said, all the restaurants on this list, in some way, are building businesses with humanitarian or environmental efforts. Great food is the baseline expectation, but to make that list, you know, restaurants had to be more than just great food.
Lyndsay C. Green: Restaurateurs really were intentional when they launched their restaurants over the past year because I think that they saw what was needed in the industry. I think they saw that you needed to be really mindful of diversity. You needed to be really mindful of things like sustainability. They really needed to pay attention to the impact that a restaurant has on our society and on our community and on the world at large.
The starting point was the traditional great food, great service, great ambiance. And so that&#8217;s when I was able to really see, &#8216;Hey, what are they doing beyond the great food?&#8217;. I think what is interesting about Sozai is that sustainability as a pillar at the restaurant goes beyond even just sustainable sourcing. There&#8217;s also this concept of sustainability within his hiring practices. I mean, within the staffing, he offers benefits to his full-time employees.
I mean, he offers health insurance, which is something that, you know, you can&#8217;t be sustainable if you&#8217;re not creating a sustainable environment for your workers. His philosophy of taking that extra step going above and beyond is evident in everything that he does as a side.
Chris Jordan: As a sushi lover, I needed to get the Sozai experience myself. I booked a reservation at their sushi bar and showed up early to speak to Chef Sato and see him and his staff prep the kitchen for dinner service.
Hajime Sato, Chef/Owner, Sozai Restaurant: It is really hard to think that the sushi can be sustainable. Do you eat sushi?
Chris Jordan: Yes, I do.
Chef Hajime Sato: Okay, so what&#8217;s your favorite?
Chris Jordan: Now I feel bad to say because I had no idea that eel is a really unsustainable fish. I love like the Unagi Rolls and stuff, but now I know that&#8217;s one of the most unsustainable.
Chef Hajime Sato: How about the yellowtail? Do you like that?
Chris Jordan Editor, One Detroit Yep.
Chef Hajime Sato: Okay. That&#8217;s not sustainable. How about bluefin tuna? Maybe. Do you know what kind of shrimp that you eat? Where is the shrimp come from? So we are literally talking about four or five species that everybody has. That&#8217;s probably 90% of the sales. I cannot use any of that. The sushi chef has to make a decision of changing that. That&#8217;s almost impossible. That&#8217;s crazy, right?
So that&#8217;s why maybe ten of the sustainable sushi place in nation at the time that I switched 13 years ago, and now it&#8217;s about ten.
Chris Jordan: Wow.
Chef Hajime Sato: So it&#8217;s not really catching on.
Chris Jordan: According to Lyndsay&#8217;s article, the amount of sustainable seafood in American restaurants has actually decreased in recent decades, and about 34% of seafood served in America is unsustainable.
Chef Hajime Sato: The thing that really frustrates me, that sushi chef who say like, &#8220;Whoa, I have a kids and maybe my kid&#8217;s going to, you know, take over my restaurant in future.&#8221; Do you understand that? Within like ten, 20 years, you&#8217;re not going to get any seafood left when you&#8217;re doing what you&#8217;re doing.
Sometimes I feel like you can make a little sacrifice in your life. A little bit, right? Then that&#8217;s going to change a little bit, right? Crazy guy like me changing the seafood sustainability and this like 25 seating restaurants not going to change anything.
But think about half of the entire population. That&#8217;s 10% reduction on, let&#8217;s say, &#8220;I know cannot eat eel all the time, but maybe I&#8217;m not going to eat at maybe ten, 20% of the time.&#8221; Entire population did it or half of population did it, that&#8217;s going to basically change entire dynamic of anything that you see.
Chris Jordan: Chef Sato&#8217;s advice to sushi lovers who want to eat more sustainably?
Chef Hajime Sato: Start with, go to a sushi bar, or any kind of seafood restaurant fishmonger, wherever you go. Just say, &#8220;where&#8217;s this fish come from?&#8221; Right. Why do you have this fish? Just a little something. Is it local? Is it seasonal, whatever that is, right?
That&#8217;s going to change a little bit of people&#8217;s minds or saying like, &#8220;Hey, is this sustainable or not?&#8221; Just say that to the people who is serving you. Then maybe they can think twice about, oh, maybe that&#8217;s how we have to shift, right? It&#8217;s about money. Okay. So ask some questions.
Chris Jordan: How much do you use more local fish or Great Lakes fish?
Chef Hajime Sato: So we use a walleye for we call it a pure Michigan roll, which, you know, people say we you know, they have a California. No, we don&#8217;t. We&#8217;re not in California. And I use a smelt, also, from Great Lakes. At this moment, those are the two that I use. And of course, I&#8217;d like to increase that.
Chris Jordan: But you also you do more vegetarian stuff and more vegetables than a lot of sushi places do.
Chef Hajime Sato: One of the things that&#8217;s, I guess if you go to the sushi bar, if you say you&#8217;re vegan or vegetarian, then you get like, just, avocado and cucumber roll. We don&#8217;t do that. We do a lot of pickled vegetables in the house and we even have it on my cassette, which is the chef&#8217;s choice meal for the vegan people. So you&#8217;re going to have a lot of choices, which I&#8217;m really excited about.
And other side of the coin on this, that the even if you get the sashimi assortment, you&#8217;ll get a lot of pickled vegetables. And some people don&#8217;t eat it. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Eh, it&#8217;s vegetable&#8230;&#8221; And I sometimes make them eat it. Eat your freaking vegetables.
Chris Jordan: And now you mentioned the omakase, the chef&#8217;s choice experience at the sushi bar. Tell me a bit about that.
Chef Hajime Sato: I want people to experience something that you would never, ever eat from the menu if it&#8217;s there. Most of the people would stick to what they know. And I hate to say this way, but maybe a lot of people like it, but there are some fried roll with the spicy mayonnaise on the top. There is nothing Japanese about that, right?
Chris Jordan: Yeah.
Chef Hajime Sato: That is something that I&#8217;d like to change their mind and say, &#8220;Hey, there&#8217;s a lot more than that.&#8221; And yes, you&#8217;re used to eat California or the fried California with spicy mayonnaise. And today I might give you the sea snails. But, be open-minded. You might like it. You never know what you&#8217;re going to get.
And it&#8217;s really fun because even every time you come in and a month&#8217;s apart, it&#8217;s going to be different, right? And sometimes I talk to the customers and even exactly the same omakase from the menu, I might do a touch different because I talk to the customers. Maybe they like this way. Maybe I can push a little better this way. So every time it&#8217;s different. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s a counter space over here. That&#8217;s the only time I do omakase and not at the table. Because I like to talk to the customers and get a feel.
I think relationships are so important, especially these days. Everything&#8217;s kind of Internet based and there&#8217;s no human contact that much. You know, people I think, misses that part of it in a restaurant, too. It&#8217;s so mechanical sometimes, right?
Chris Jordan: Right.
Chef Hajime Sato: I&#8217;m more old school. I like to have a regular customer for life.
Chris Jordan: And as a relative newcomer to Detroit from the Seattle restaurant scene, what does Chef Sato think of our culinary community here?
Chef Hajime Sato: One thing about Michigan or Detroit that people have to realize is it&#8217;s awesome here. Okay. Yeah, I like Seattle in some ways and they supported me. But it&#8217;s so cool to be here too, you know? Don&#8217;t think about, like, what you don&#8217;t have, but just know what you have.
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Sustainable sushi? How one metro Detroit chef is attempting to change the seafood industry

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When you look around Michigan, from the Great Lakes to smaller lakes, streams and rivers, water is everywhere, yet it&#8217;s getting more expensive for households across the state. Between <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/aging-infrastructure-highlighted-by-benton-harbors-continued-water-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aging infrastructure</a>, maintenance and <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/benton-harbor-water-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replacement costs</a>, many Michigan households are hard-pressed to keep pace with the increasing cost of water. 
The issue is a relatively new one, too. According to a report from the University of Michigan published last year, between 1980 and 2018, the average cost of water across the state of Michigan nearly doubled, when adjusted for inflation. In some cities, the increase was even larger, and low-income households were hit the hardest.
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Ahead of Great Lakes Now&#8217;s special episode, <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/waters-true-cost/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Water’s True Cost”</a>  at 7:30p ET May 25, One Detroit follows <a href="https://www.circleofblue.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Circle of Blue</a> journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/waltonwater" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brett Walton</a> as he talks with Oakland County Water Resource Commissioner <a href="https://www.oakgov.com/water/about/Pages/bios.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Nash</a> and Megan Wilk, of <a href="https://www.waynemetro.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayne Metro Community Action Agency</a>, about how the cost of water has changed for residents in Southeast Michigan. 
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Anna Sysling, Producer, Great Lakes Now: When you look around the Great Lakes, it seems water is everywhere. But for many households in the region, water is getting more expensive and less affordable. Brett Walton, a reporter for Circle of Blue, has done extensive reporting on water affordability in southeast Michigan.
Brett Walton, Reporter, Circle of Blue: Water affordability wasn&#8217;t a big issue until about two decades ago, and that&#8217;s because for the longest time, water was relatively cheap. But in the last couple of decades, we&#8217;ve seen the price of water going up faster than almost any household good.
Anna Sysling: Over the past four decades, the cost of telephone service, natural gas and electricity have all gone up, and so has the Consumer Price Index. But the rise in water prices outpaces them all.
Brett Walton: Comparatively, it&#8217;s still cheaper than electricity or some other things, but it&#8217;s going up faster than others. And that&#8217;s because the infrastructure we put into the ground fifty hundred years ago is aging out. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where it&#8217;s at the end of its life and needs to be replaced, and that is expensive infrastructure.
Anna Sysling: A report from the University of Michigan published last year found that between 1980 and 2018, average water prices across the state of Michigan nearly doubled when adjusted for inflation. In some cities, the increase was even larger. Low-income households were hit the hardest. Oakland County is one of the wealthiest counties in Michigan, but many county residents struggle to pay their water bills. Jim Nash is Oakland County&#8217;s water resources commissioner.
Jim Nash, Water Resources Commissioner, Oakland County:  Royal Oak Township is probably our poorest community in the county and it actually has some of the highest water bills. Theirs is over $100 a month on average. So there is significant issues in that community.
Anna Sysling: Nash estimates that about 55% of households in Royal Oak Township spend more than 4% of their income on water and sewer services.
Jim Nash: Water is unaffordable to them. Pontiac, it&#8217;s about 35%.
Anna Sysling: Oakland County is working on a state-funded water affordability plan for both Pontiac and Royal Oak Township. They&#8217;re hoping it will become a blueprint that other communities can adapt to their own systems. The plan has two parts one, to assist those who find the average bill to be a financial burden, and the second, to help those in emergency situations like job loss or unexpected medical expenses.
Jim Nash: When it comes to people who have just chronic inability to pay, what we want to do is have kind of a graded billing system where if the very poorest folks half the poverty rate would only pay like 30 or $35 a month. In Pontiac, it&#8217;s about $85 a month or 80. $85 is the average bill. So this would dramatically lower that bill.
Jim Nash: Fifty to 100% of poverty would be maybe $45 a month. And we&#8217;re developing this. So we&#8217;re not fixed yet, but that&#8217;s the kind of thing we&#8217;re doing. We want to have levels of service for folks who have real significant issues paying.
Anna Sysling:  The county&#8217;s plan will also address people whose water bill jumps unexpectedly because of a leak or an undetected plumbing issue.
Jim Nash: The next bill is $1,000 instead of 80. We want to be able to come in, and once they&#8217;ve shown that they fix the leak, then we can maybe give them credit for that water. Right now, we only give them we give it the wholesale cost of the water. So they save some but not a whole bunch. So we&#8217;re trying to set up a system. We can do that.
Jim Nash: And then people who have issues, you know, who have medical or health issues or, you know, car accidents find a way of of local assistance that, you know, the local community can help with, that, you know, of the community foundation, things like that. So we can where we want to work with those folks.
Anna Sysling: Outdated plumbing is a real issue. Something as simple as a dripping hose spigot or a toilet that won&#8217;t stop running can lead to shockingly high bills. Water affordability is an even bigger problem. Just south of Oakland County, in Wayne County, the most populated county in Michigan, which includes the city of Detroit. Megan Wilk is with the Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency.
Megan Wilk, Dept. Director, Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency: A lot of times the residents that come in have just really large bills from a small leak or something existing with their plumbing. Maybe they&#8217;re in an old home and the plumbing is just deteriorating and they don&#8217;t have the money to make the fixes. So the bill just continues to get higher each month. They get late fees tacked on to that.
Anna Sysling: Megan showed us a bill from one of her clients. The total due was staggering close to $15,000.
Megan Wilk: Looking at the bill rate now, the usage is very low. It&#8217;s below average for a single person living in the home. So tells me right now they probably don&#8217;t have any leaks, but at one point there was probably a leak or something big structurally that was going on to make the bill go up this high.
Megan Wilk: This is just something that you&#8217;re not really going to recover from. Like you&#8217;re stuck with this bill, you know, for years and paying your current charges. If you&#8217;re already struggling to pay your current charges for the month and then you have this past due balance of $15,000 that you have to take care of, even enrolling in a payment plan arrangement, it&#8217;s still going to be unaffordable for you.
Brett Walton: Water is unaffordable and people don&#8217;t pay their bill. Missed their payment. The worst-case scenario is that your water gets shut off. And that happens all too frequently in cities. Not everyone shuts water off for nonpayment, but most do. In order to compel residents to pay for service.
Brett Walton: So when your water is unaffordable, you get things like in Detroit, you know, in 2011 or 2020 where there were massive water shutoffs, tens of thousands of people losing access to water and then spiraling into community problems, health problems, social problems, the potential for children to be taken away to CPS. So it is a very real, very severe community crisis.
Anna Sysling: To address health concerns. During the pandemic, the U.S. government created the Low Income Households Water Assistance Program and appropriated $1.1 billion to fund it. Michigan&#8217;s share was $36.2 million dollars, but it&#8217;s estimated that Michigan households owe around $252 million in unpaid water bills. So the federal money is just a drop in the bucket, according to Commissioner Nash. There will be no long-term solution to the problem of water affordability without greater state and federal assistance.
Jim Nash: We want to have local water systems do as much as they can, but the state and federal should be helping us do that because they&#8217;re the ones that should be guaranteeing the rights of Americans. And that&#8217;s how I see that and what we do. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re pushing legislation in Lansing to have them set up a program for helping local communities do this.
Jim Nash: And I think that&#8217;s going to be our long-term answer, is getting this recognized as a human right and the state and federal governments involved in guaranteeing those rights, that&#8217;s the most important thing we can do. We can&#8217;t just put all the burden on the local ratepayers. It just can&#8217;t work in the long term. It&#8217;s not sustainable.
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By <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/author/jena-brooker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jena Brooker</a>, BridgeDetroit 
After more than a decade of visioning and organizing, Black leaders and community members have broken ground on a cooperatively owned full-service grocery store in the city’s North End.
The Detroit People’s Food Co-op will be part of the larger Detroit Food Commons, a Black-led community development complex on Woodward Avenue expected to include an incubator kitchen for culinary artists and food entrepreneurs, a West African and Detroit-centric healthy foods cafe and will have space for community meetings and events, lectures, films, and performances.
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The project, spearheaded by the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1A2z_F6ReceyqIr9QRh69ACl5nJD7PQ6LLw7dF5yOTwc/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Black Community Food Security Network</a>, seeks to expand access to healthy foods for a predominantly Black and low-income community where residents also face concerns of <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/resident-led-investment-set-to-transform-detroits-north-end/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gentrification</a> and displacement.
Despite a nearly 80% Black population, Detroit lacks Black-owned grocery stores. While the <a href="https://detroitpeoplesfoodcoop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit People’s Food Co-op</a> will be open to the public and anyone of any race can be involved, it is a primarily Black-led initiative.
Malik Yakini, the network’s executive director and co-founder, grounded the group’s Saturday groundbreaking in the context of white supremacy and inequity.
“In the face of these kinds of oppressive systems, cooperative economics is the way that people who are marginalized by the larger society galvanize our collective wealth and rebuild our communities,” said Yakini, of the coalition working to build an equitable food system in Detroit.
Construction on the $21.3 million Detroit Food Commons will take a little over a year, with an anticipated completion date of June 2023.
“The Detroit Food Commons and the Detroit People’s Food Co-op is most significant when it is linked to ending the extraction of wealth, and the suppression of the power of Black communities throughout the United States,” he added. “It pushes back gently – it doesn’t destroy capitalism.”
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Even within a co-op, he said, there’s still capitalism, but at least at the retail level community members can own the store they’re purchasing from, and the store will be connected with local growers in Detroit.
“We’re trying to kind of create a closed-loop system … keeping the money from those sales circulating within our community,” he said.
A 2012 study by the Fair Food Network found that Detroiters spend an average of <a href="https://fairfoodnetwork.org/from-the-field/grocery-stores-new-opportunities-to-promote-fair-food-in-the-inner-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$200 million</a> annually on groceries in the suburbs, due to a lack of grocery stores in the city, generally, and a lack of quality, nutritious and culturally appropriate foods offered at Detroit grocers.
The grocery store in the North End will be collectively owned and governed by its members who pay a one-time fee of $200. In exchange, members receive a vote in board elections, share of future profits, and they can run to be a board member themselves.
Yakini announced Saturday that the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network will be changing its name to the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network. Compared to “food security” the phrase “food sovereignty” highlights ownership over the social and political processes of our food systems.
The project, he added, is significant because it’s led by “a grassroots Black food sovereignty network,” including a nonprofit development company led by a Black woman, two Black architectural firms, a Black construction company and a Black general contractor.
Sonya Mays, president and chief executive officer of Develop Detroit, the organization partnering with the network to create the space, told BridgeDetroit that “We do see cooperative and collective ownership as an important strategy in neighborhoods like this to keep homes affordable, to keep the character of the community more intact.”
But most people aren’t familiar with cooperative ownership, she noted, and Mays hopes that the DPFC will be a good, clear example of how these kinds of <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/the-high-cost-of-affordable-housing-in-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developments</a> can work.
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Late February and early March are known as<a href="https://blog.nwf.org/2021/05/special-sauce-the-detroit-sugarbush-project/"> sugarbush season</a>, a time when the sap begins to run through maple trees, and for members of the Detroit Sugarbush Project, it&#8217;s the time they head out to<a href="http://www.rougepark.org/"> Detroit&#8217;s Rouge Park</a> to tap into the park’s maple trees and start collecting sap. The practice is a cultural tradition meant to connect Indigenous people to their heritage and ancestors as much as it is a spiritual process that reminds them of their connection to the Earth.
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One Detroit contributor<a href="https://twitter.com/AJWalkerNews"> AJ Walker</a> joins the Detroit Sugarbush Project members — David Pitawanakwat, Dr. Shakara Tyler and Alexis Chingman-Tijerina — for a day in Rouge Park collecting sap to learn more about the process of making maple syrup and how the group has been trying to revive the cultural tradition. Plus, Antonio Cosme, of the<a href="https://blog.nwf.org/2021/05/special-sauce-the-detroit-sugarbush-project/"> National Wildlife Federation</a>, explains how projects like this are helping to provide a sense of healing for communities of color.
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David Pitawanakwat, Detroit Sugarbush Project: The last freeze, these trees are going to suck all that water into the tree, it&#8217;s going to go all the way to the top. And then, as soon as it gets above freezing, all of that sap is going to come back down, and that&#8217;s when all the sap is going to flow.
AJ Walker: And when it does, that&#8217;s when the Detroit Sugarbush Project will get their sweet reward. But for those hard at work tapping these maple trees, the work itself is most rewarding. Dr. Shakara Tyler says, tapping maple trees is about much more than getting sirup.
Dr. Shakara Tyler, Detroit Sugarbush Project: The Sugarbush process is a very sacred ritual where we commune with our trees as ancestors, as the kin that they are, as they gift the sap to us, so that we can consume it however that we see fit. And I want to emphasize the ritualistic part of it, because we offer gifts to the trees in the process of them returning the sap or giving the sap to us. It&#8217;s about sustaining the mind, body and spirit. It&#8217;s not just something that we consume because it tastes good. This is a very spiritual process where we can honor our sacred histories and honor the ancestral energy that&#8217;s present.
David Pitawanakwat: You can live off the land, our ancestors did it. And so, we&#8217;re just trying to keep those traditions alive.
AJ Walker: Antonio Cosme, who works for the National Wildlife Federation, is one of the Detroit Sugarbush Project&#8217;s organizers. He helps to bring the NWF together with Native American communities to carry out this annual tradition. Alexis Chingman- Tajerina, who is Anishinaabe, says hauling these buckets and doing this work is about paying homage to her culture and staying connected to her roots.
Alexis Chingman-Tajerina, Detroit Sugarbush Project: The Food Sovereignty Initiative with my tribe, you know, if we want to be living our culture, then we need to be doing what we would do in terms of like food harvesting, and gathering, and all the ceremony that goes into that, that is our culture. So, if we&#8217;re eating our foods, our heritage foods, then, you know, we are reconnecting. And that&#8217;s a really powerful way that we can do that.
AJ Walker: For Cosme, Bringing Sugarbush Tapping to Detroit is helping to heal deep wounds in communities of color. Those who are Native American and those who are not.
Antonio Cosme, Detroit Sugarbush Project: We&#8217;re really trying to build relationships between Native communities and urban communities, between black communities and native communities, because we think a lot of the things these communities are facing, they&#8217;re parallels, you know. And a lot of that comes from like the sadness, the hurt, the pain, the disconnection from our ancestral roots and nature in the land.
AJ Walker: And Detroit&#8217;s Rouge Park has proven to be the perfect place to do so.
David Pitawanakwat: Rouge Park was the most natural destination for us. We came out here, we walked a little bit out on the trails. And, I mean, these are just huge maple groves, it&#8217;s just a perfect maple tapping spot. And so, we went to the city, and we said, hey, this is a part of our heritage, our culture, our religious and spiritual like rights to do this every season, to honor the, you know, the nature, the season, ourselves, and our ancestors. And so, the city was like, wow, yeah, that&#8217;s dope. And so, we&#8217;re out here doing it now.
AJ Walker: Today the fire is the beginning of a long process.
David Pitawanakwat: The fire is kind of like the center of the community. We want to get the fire going today to keep you guys warm and keep us warm while we&#8217;re working.
AJ Walker:  Next, is going tree to tree. So, this fire here is to keep us warm. And then in a little while, you&#8217;re going to build a separate fire.
David Pitawanakwat: Yeah.
AJ Walker:  And that&#8217;s going to be, you know, to boil everything down.
David Pitawanakwat: Yeah. We&#8217;re going to need a lot of heat to boil down the maple sap. Like I said, it&#8217;s going to take a long time, 5 to 10 hours. Sometimes we have boils, depending on how much sap we&#8217;re going to have in any given point, can take up to 24 hours.
AJ Walker: It looks like over here is where the real work begins and you&#8217;re going to start actually tapping into those trees.
David Pitawanakwat: Right. We&#8217;ve got about 50 gallons already pulled from the tap already. It&#8217;s gotten a little bit colder, so the trees have slowed down. But we&#8217;re going to go collect right now what we&#8217;ve got out here in Rush Park, we&#8217;re going to add that to the tow. And then later this week, we&#8217;re going to be building a large cooking kit over here for the maple syrup. And my friends are going out to collect the sap right now.
AJ Walker: Tapping maple trees for their sap is a tradition that goes back thousands of years. But doing it today is especially important, and it&#8217;s a labor of love.
Dr. Shakara Tyler: Reviving these traditions are part of the reclamation process culturally, politically, socially, even economically. And so, it&#8217;s a huge aspect of what it means to decolonize the way we center indigenous and center indigenous futures and histories in the present. And so, this is not something new that we&#8217;re trying to figure out. We are pulling from a very ancient lineage of practices, and stories, and cultures, to learn in the present today.
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Tapping into their roots: Detroit Sugarbush Project collects sap from Rouge Park

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Rainy weather has returned once again to Michigan, but some Detroit homeowners are still trying to clean up the flooding damage to their homes from last year’s major rain events, and they’re still waiting for financial assistance. Many of the residents affected by Southeast Michigan’s heavy rainfall last year have paid out of their own pockets to repair the flooding damage left behind.
According to a report by the Detroit Free Press, nearly 39,000 Detroit households have received federal aid for repairs, but thousands more are still waiting to hear if their claims will be accepted or already have been denied. One Detroit contributors Stephen Henderson of “American Black Journal” and Nolan Finley of The Detroit News connect for a discussion about the flooding damage Detroit homeowners are still dealing with, the current state of the city’s infrastructure and the risks of heavy rain we may see in the future.
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The city of Detroit broke ground recently on a new $8-million Detroit greenway project that promises to stretch from the city’s southwest side to its riverfront, a major destination for tourists and locals alike, and include everything in the city’s central district in between. The construction of the nearly one-mile pathway is being led by the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, which said it expects the project to be completed by the fall.
One Detroit contributor AJ Walker takes viewers to the groundbreaking of the long-awaited greenway project to hear how the new pathway will benefit the city’s residents and visitors.
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New Multi-Million Detroit Greenway to Connect City’s Southwest Side to Riverfront

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Lake Huron and Lake Michigan come together in the Straits of Mackinac—long considered one of the most treacherous waterways on all of the Great Lakes. For nearly 150 years, the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse has guarded ships passing through the Straits. It sits twelve miles and a world away from the mainland. Today, the lighthouse needs restoration efforts if it&#8217;s going to survive.
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<a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a> talks with Pat McKinstry, president of the <a href="https://spectaclereef.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spectacle Reef Preservation Society</a>, and Carl and Marcia Jahn, two lighthouse keepers of the Great Lakes, about the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, and the preservation efforts and initiatives going into restoring the historic, iconic site.
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Narrator: Lake Huron and Lake Michigan come together in the straits of Mackinac, long considered one of the most treacherous waterways on all of the Great Lakes. For nearly 150 years, the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse has guarded ships passing through the straits. It sits 12 miles and a world away from the mainland.
Patrick McKinstry, President, Spectacle Reef Preservation Society:  You can see the strains of it all up there.
Narrator: Patrick McKinstry is the president of the Spectacle Reef Preservation Society, a nonprofit organization he and a group of lighthouse enthusiasts created to restore and preserve the light.
Patrick McKinstry: So, Northern Lake Huron Buoy has six-foot seas, strait Buckeye has 4, which means the light right now has four to five. The lighthouse was sold at auction in 2014 to a private individual who is a friend of mine, and he offered me the lighthouse. I wanted to buy the lighthouse for myself, but I believe that it should be in public hands because these were built with taxpayers&#8217; dollars to save the lives of the public, and the people who lived there should be remembered as public servants. We put a team together of lighthouse historians, restoration enthusiasts, and the society raised the cash to purchase the lighthouse.
Narrator:  When we caught up with him. Patrick and a group of volunteers were getting ready to take the 17-mile trek from Sheboygan to the lighthouse, hoping to make up some restoration work before the weather makes such trips too dangerous.
Patrick McKinstry:  This crew is a very good crew and all of our volunteers are fantastic. We got 157 volunteers that joined the organization to save them, all their knowledge and skill sets, they all play a role. And what has impressed me is just the amount of passion that people have for this organization and saving his lighthouse.
Narrator:  But working on a lighthouse that&#8217;s this far off the shore isn&#8217;t easy. The first challenge, just getting there.
Patrick McKinstry: My greatest fear is the same thing that the keepers&#8217; experience, it&#8217;s the weather out here. There are days where you think it&#8217;s great and then the storm kicks up.
Narrator:  And though the weather on this day looked pleasant enough, the threat of a sudden storm with high winds and heavy seas, forced the crew to return to the marina. The lighthouse would have to wait. Fortunately, by the next day, conditions had improved.
Patrick McKinstry:  If you look down the water, you&#8217;ll see the reef plain as day.
Narrator: Spectacle Reef Lighthouse gets its name from the shallow reef it was built on. There are two shoals with a ridge between them that resemble a pair of eyeglasses. The design of the lighthouse makes it even stronger in severe weather.
Patrick McKinstry: The lighthouse is built out of giant limestone blocks that are 2 foot tall, and their width and the radius differs based on where they&#8217;re at in the light tower. But the way it&#8217;s built, they have these edges that are cut almost like puzzle pieces, so that when the waves hit the tower, it actually smashes it all together, making the joints stronger over time.
Narrator: Spectacle Reef was considered a technical marvel when it was built in 1869, and it became a model for lighthouses built throughout the Northern Great Lakes.
Patrick McKinstry: Technology and the base camp that was built for Spectacle on Government Island, built every other offshore lighthouse up in the straits Mackinac, particularly the Lake Huron side. But all the technology that was developed and engineered for Spectacle, makes her kind of the grandmother of every other offshore lighthouse on the Great Lakes land. We are on top of Spectacle Reef Lighthouse, about 97 feet above Lake Huron and the lower parapet, there&#8217;s two parapets, an upper and lower, we&#8217;re on the lower side right now.
The entire next level was just the lens, and the level below was the service room where they kept oil, wicks and material. Had their little office take care of their logs each night, you know, when the foghorn went off, that type of thing. So, when you&#8217;re out here at night, you&#8217;ll see this, I believe it&#8217;s 10 or 11 lighthouses fashioned out here at night. It gives it kind of a real idea why these are so important. You&#8217;re out in the middle of the lake, you know, and how the flash parents are all different, so people knew what they were looking at. Nowadays, it&#8217;s hard to tell because you got all these radio towers and whatnot, but when they were built, of course, it was pitch black out here and the only source of light you had was lighthouses.
Narrator:  The goal of the Spectacle Reef Preservation Society is to create a learning light where people can come and experience the life of a lighthouse keeper and learn about the history of lighthouses on the Great Lakes.
Patrick McKinstry: This thing is kind of cool, it says, force speck, ortho tooth iodide, people back then would use this as some type of toothache medication. So in 64, a guy had a baby on shore and the waves sent him the footprints of their child, and so these footprints are still here. The engineering and the history there is important, but really it&#8217;s the stories of the people that were tough enough to survive working at a lighthouse 18 miles away from port, 12 miles in the middle lake, with no human contact for months on end, and some of whom gave up their lives to protect sailors out there. Those stories need to be preserved and told over and over again. And the lighthouse is the perfect conduit for that, since that is where they were based and that was their home for years on end.
Narrator: The first step of renovation was making the station safe for the people working on it. That meant filling holes in the floor and remediating lead paint. Next came structural repairs, waterproofing and other basic fixes. It all paves the way for the restoration and cosmetic work that will happen in the future.
Patrick McKinstry: This one is cracked. It&#8217;s another one up top that&#8217;s cracked, we&#8217;ll replace those today, too. We&#8217;ll put some plexiglass on this yellow. But these five over here say, excuse me, five, they were all shattered with holes in them and we replaced all those last week with brand new glass. So it&#8217;s floodproof, allegedly, it should take power from the waves and the wind pretty good. But we are in the land room of Spectacle Reef, this is our beautiful light that&#8217;s out here. It&#8217;s an LED light, it flashes red every five seconds, so one second on, four seconds off.
Narrator: The light is still maintained by the US Coast Guard and can be seen for 11 miles. But the fresnel lens that was in place when the lighthouse was automated in 1972 had a far greater reach.
Carl Jahn &#8220;Keeper Carl&#8221;, Lighthouse Keeper Re-enactor/ Member, Spectacle Reef Preservation Society:  This piece comes to us from our light, Spectacle Read, this one piece of it and our lens had panels inside it that rotated around the eight-foot diameter light, that made it flash every four seconds.
Patrick McKinstry: The lens was a second over from now, and it had a red stroud attached to it on the outside. So as actually the heaviest fresnel lens ever used on the great leaves, and when it was installed, it could be seen for 29 miles.
Carl Jahn &#8220;Keeper Carl&#8221;:  Just needs a lot of tender loving care.
Narrator: Carl Jahn is known as &#8220;Keeper Carl.&#8221; He&#8217;s a lighthouse keeper re-enactor and a member of the Spectacle Reef Preservation Society.
Carl Jahn &#8220;Keeper Carl&#8221;: Makes you look a little more official. It&#8217;s a love for lights, for whatever reason, that draws people like me and Patrick and everyone.
Patrick McKinstry: It&#8217;s my weirdness, right? If you put your ear up against it sometimes, it is almost like she kind of talks to you.
Carl Jahn &#8220;Keeper Carl&#8221;:  We&#8217;ve got volunteers coming all the way from Texas, Wisconsin, families come over here to spend time to help us restore this light. Paint, scraping paint, sweeping floors, painting stuff, it&#8217;s enjoyable. Nobody comes out there and has to work six or eight hours that we can spend at the station. You&#8217;re there to have as much fun as you do and help us get the light preserved.
Mark Lee, Masonry Specialist:  Out here at the Lighthouse, it&#8217;s pretty much whatever you can do to make it work and make everything stick.
Narrator: Mark Lee lives 20 miles across Lake Huron from the light and he can see it from his home. He&#8217;s a masonry specialist who does foundation repair and brickwork, and he&#8217;s a volunteer.
Mark Lee:  Today, I patched a couple of holes that were pretty significant holes in the stairwell going up to the tower on the first floor. And then, I did a little bit of caulking and getting stuff ready for paint and making sure things are waterproof for the winter.
Narrator: The crew of volunteers had intended to stay and work until late in the day. But once again, the weather had other plans.
Carl Jahn &#8220;Keeper Carl&#8221;:  We&#8217;ve got a storm coming in right now. We&#8217;re trying to beat it back to shore and we lock her up in a couple minutes, and we&#8217;re out of here.
Patrick McKinstry:  Well, we got 20 minutes to leave before we may get caught in the weather. I&#8217;m still trying to get ahead of the weather. All right, guys, you guys might get wet on the way home, but I don&#8217;t want to repeat what we did 2 weeks ago, where we were out here in eight-foot seas for three hours because that was awful. Just offshore, at the 2nd most remote lighthouse on the Great Lakes and 3rd in the country, mother nature calls your shots.
Narrator: Patrick and his crew of volunteers will be back to continue their efforts to preserve the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse and to build a new generation of guardians of the Great Lakes.
Patrick McKinstry: What I want to achieve is to build that generation. So, when I can no longer walk and be in a wheelchair or whatever, you know, I can&#8217;t climb that ladder anymore, I know it&#8217;s in good hands. And she&#8217;ll still be there in great shape, teaching people the story and Spectacle Reef. Teaching people onshore some history, teaching techniques and methods on how to restore lighthouses. I can sit back in my retirement home and know she&#8217;s in good hands.
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Lighthouse Preservation Efforts Underway for Spectacle Reef Lighthouse

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DETROIT — Some get lettuce, others shrimp and still other finned residents of the Belle Isle Aquarium get a vitamin gel mixture in their meal. &#8220;All the fish take different things depending on their size and what they require,&#8221; Belle Isle Aquarium Senior Aquarist Amanda Murray said. 
Murray not only feeds the fish and other creatures at <a href="https://www.belleisleconservancy.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the aquarium</a>, but she closely watches them while they eat. &#8220;That&#8217;s when you&#8217;re going to notice that things are off,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Not only is it fun, but it&#8217;s super important to pay attention to their feeding.&#8221;
<figure id="attachment_21457" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21457" style="width: 711px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-21457" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/One-Detroit-GLN-Fish-Feeding-Still-4.jpg" alt="Belle Isle Aquarium staff feeding fish" width="711" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-21457" class="wp-caption-text">Belle Isle Aquarium Senior Aquarist Amanda Murray feeds a tank of fish at the aquarium.</figcaption></figure>
In a special One Detroit segment produced by Great Lakes Now&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/ASysling?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Annamarie Sysling</a>, audiences get a behind-the-scenes look inside of Detroit&#8217;s Belle Isle Aquarium to see what the fish are fed and how the food they eat keeps them healthy. Plus, Murray and others will show how they take care of the fish at the aquarium. 
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Annamarie Sysling: Here at the Belle Isle Aquarium, visitors gather around tanks full of both familiar and exotic species of fish and aquatic life. But have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at this popular Detroit destination? We&#8217;re pulling back the curtain and getting an up-close look at what goes into caring for and feeding the fish who call this aquarium home.
Amanda Murray, Senior Aquarist, Belle Isle Aquarium: All right, we&#8217;re going to feed these guys right here.
Annamarie Sysling: And as we take you through the process, you might be surprised to find out where it all begins. If you don&#8217;t immediately recognize this place, it&#8217;s Detroit&#8217;s Eastern Market. Like many who come here for their produce on Saturday mornings, Belle Isle Aquarium curator Paul Shuert shops for lettuce, zucchini and cucumbers. But instead of the dinner plate, these veggies will end up in fish tanks.
Paul Shuert, Curator, Belle Isle Aquarium: And we like to get fresh because, you know, it&#8217;s better for better nutrition for them. So that&#8217;s why we come to the market every Saturday.
Annamarie Sysling: Once Paul is back at the aquarium, he and senior Aquaris Amanda Murray unload the bags of produce along with boxes of fish, which also come from the market.
Amanda Murray: So today we&#8217;re actually in our lab space and this is an area nobody gets to see. This is where all the magic happens, but this is where we food prep.
Annamarie Sysling: Amanda spends time chopping the vegetables and then moves on to preparing fish for the aquarium&#8217;s carnivorous residents, along with a vitamin gel mixture that will get chilled and then cut into cubes.
Amanda Murray: We have a variety of fish here. We have Shrimp, we have Tilapia, we have Sardines, we have Smelt and all the fish take different things depending on their size and what they require.
Annamarie Sysling: Once the preparations are complete
Amanda Murray: And now for the fish&#8217;s favorite time of the day and mine too, feeding.
Annamarie Sysling: Amanda begins with the Frontosa Cichlids from Africa moving on to the Texas Cichlids.
Amanda Murray: They love the lettuce. They&#8217;re probably the fish that love it the most.
Annamarie Sysling: And then the Rainbow Trout, the Stingrays, the Lionfish and Piranhas are just some of the others in line for food today. She says that some of the species here eat just once or twice a week, while others require more frequent meals like these big belly seahorses.
Amanda Murray: They get fed probably two to three times a day because they don&#8217;t have a stomach
Annamarie Sysling: Feeding time is also a good opportunity to take stock of each fish&#8217;s health.
Amanda Murray: As a behaviorist and as someone who takes care of these fish, it&#8217;s really important to observe their behavior. And one thing you can actually know about their behavior is watching them eat, and that&#8217;s where you&#8217;re going to notice things are off. So not only is it fun, but it&#8217;s super important to pay attention to their feeding.
Annamarie Sysling: After most of the fish are fed, Amanda checks in with Paul.
Amanda Murray: So I just finished Bee Cove and see Cove, and so they&#8217;re done feeding for today. Just got to get the rest of them, which I&#8217;ll hit out later.
Paul Shuert: Very good, very good.
Annamarie Sysling: With the fish taken care of, visitors began to trickle in and before long, another day at the aquarium is in full swing.
Paul Shuert: They just ate a little bit ago and yeah they&#8217;re going to probably take a nap, yeah.
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Feeding Frenzy: Watch the Belle Isle Aquarium’s Fish Get Fed

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Ah, pure Michigan. Filled with its rich fall colors, gorgeous dunes and freshwater lakes, and intriguing architecture, Michigan is home to some of the best natural and manmade beauties in the nation. <a href="https://twitter.com/glennrstevens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Stevens</a> knows all about the beautiful landscapes that stretch from the top of the mitten down, so much that he created and published a<a href="http://www.michiganstreet.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Michigan photography book</a> filled with his photos from across the state.
One Detroit’s Christy McDonald chats with Glenn about his new Michigan photography book and the even deeper meaning behind him creating it.
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Christy McDonald: Well, Glenn, you and I met through our work with the Detroit Regional Chamber years ago, and I remember a couple of years ago just watching your social media feed and seeing all the beautiful photos of Michigan that you would post and you really started posting a lot of these photos during the pandemic time.
Christy McDonald: You started kind of going around the state and you&#8217;re a Marquette guy by birth. And so you love the state, but being able to capture the pictures that you do and then start to put it together in a book. Take me back to the pandemic when you started going around the state.
Glenn Stevens, Author, Michigan Street: Sure. Well, I appreciate that. And it&#8217;s been a pleasure to, you know, get to know you and work with you on these different things. You know, first of all, when you look at our state, I don&#8217;t think I need to tell you, but we have an incredibly visually stunning state. And you know, when the pandemic hit, I really like a lot of people, we took a pause, literally. But I think figuratively too.
Glenn Stevens: And I just, you know, we did a lot of assessment and said, okay, well, what am I going to do with this time? Because we did, we did have more time. And because I have such a passion for photography, I&#8217;m not a professional photographer. I&#8217;m just an amateur. But I wanted to put that work to some kind of use, but I couldn&#8217;t determine what it was.
Glenn Stevens: And then it hit me, and I met this gentleman through church, through a church group right around the same time named Manny Dines. Got to know each other a little bit and found out that he has ALS and they needed a handicapped minivan. So talking to some friends, we said, Well, let&#8217;s make a picture book of Michigan. Let&#8217;s put all the proceeds towards raising money for this wheelchair-accessible van, and that&#8217;s how it all came about.
Christy McDonald: It&#8217;s beautiful and the images you&#8217;ve captured and be able to put in this book, which is called Michigan Street, because&#8230;
Glenn Stevens: Because I grew up literally on Michigan Street in Marquette. And so Michigan Street is a physical place, but it&#8217;s also kind of a state of mind for me. And I think for all of us.
Christy McDonald: Take me through some of the images that we see here. They&#8217;re stunning. Some of them bring me to tears because I can see myself in those places. When you look to capture some of these photos, what are you looking for and how do you set it up in your mind before you take that picture?
Glenn Stevens: My father always taught me, and my mom did too. You know, look up, look around and see what&#8217;s in front of you. But I think you hit on something there is that almost every one of those pictures, there&#8217;s a little bit of a story going behind it. I didn&#8217;t just take the picture. I took it in. I memorized it and then some of them literally have stories behind them. So that&#8217;s where it all comes about.
Christy McDonald: What are some of your favorites? Can you share one with us?
Glenn Stevens: I&#8217;ll give you two perfect places that I love. One is Detroit and one is Marquette, you know, and they&#8217;re vastly different places, but they&#8217;re connected for a variety of different reasons. But in Marquette, you know the cover and some of the places in Marquette along Lake Superior, a little Presque Isle, McCarty&#8217;s Cove, those are kind of my places, you know, that special place, that happy place that people talk about.
Glenn Stevens: But you know, in Detroit, I&#8217;ve got a picture of when they first started to renovate the train station and then the second floor of the Detroit Public Library on Woodward, the main branch up on the court. The murals there, you know, those are just pretty special places. So those would be a couple.
Christy McDonald: When you think about putting them all together and saying, not only are we going to put this out for people to enjoy and to love, but the connection that you have with Manny and where he&#8217;s at right now. Explain or kind of describe that connection that you two have and what has become of that since Michigan Street has been out?
Glenn Stevens: Well, you know, one of the things I didn&#8217;t know about Manny when I first met him is come to find out they literally have traveled this entire state as a family. When I first started to put the book together, I didn&#8217;t know that, and then I found out that. So I wrote an intro to the book and I asked Manny and his family to write the closing of the book to talk about those places.
Glenn Stevens: When I first met Manny the ALS, which I&#8217;ve learned a lot about, it&#8217;s an incredibly progressive and horrible disease, wasn&#8217;t that advanced it had set in, but now it&#8217;s pretty advanced. And what I&#8217;ve really gotten out of it is the resiliency of him and his wife, Annie. It&#8217;s incredible, it&#8217;s inspiring. So to be able to help them, along with my friends who purchased the book or made donations towards the van is, it&#8217;s been a pretty cool journey.
Christy McDonald: All right, so tell us, Glenn, how can we help out? Where can we find the book Michigan Street and continue to help out Manny and his family?
Glenn Stevens: Thanks, Christy. So it&#8217;s MichiganStreet.org, and when you go to that website, you&#8217;ll find a link to Manny&#8217;s machine where you can either make a donation or you can purchase the book, and I&#8217;ll ship it to you and my distribution center, which is my, my folks up north have been helping ship the books all throughout this year so that&#8230;
Christy McDonald: It&#8217;s good to have connections like that. It&#8217;s good to have a distribution center.
Glenn Stevens: They are, they&#8217;re great workers and they&#8217;re passionate about the project. It&#8217;s been fun to do it with them.
Christy McDonald: Glenn Stevens, thanks so much for joining me. It&#8217;s great to see you. And it&#8217;s just a wonderful project and our best to Manny and his family as well.
Glenn Stevens: Thanks, Christy. Really appreciate the time today.
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Michigan Photography Book Shows State’s Natural, Manmade Beauty 

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Photographing Michigan&#8217;s night skies since 1998, photographer Shawn Malone, of <a href="https://galleries.lakesuperiorphoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lake Superior Photo</a>, knows a thing or two about photographing the northern nights and other auroras. In this <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a> featured story, Malone takes viewers on a journey through her experiences capturing from film cameras to using digital cameras now to create time lapses over Lake Superior. She unveils what people should be looking for, the challenges that can come with photographing at night, and why Michigan is one of the best places in the lower 48 states to see the northern lights.
Plus, we catch up with Nick Lake, the manager of theater experience and presentation for the <a href="https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adler Planetarium</a>, to talk about his weekly &#8220;Skywatch Wednesdays&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hNDLKmZkf3EAKPq9RnasPO7SF35s1WE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube series</a> and how he makes the northern lights accessible to those unable to take a trip north at the planetarium.
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Shawn Malone, Photographer: My photography and cinematography is Lake Superior-region based, inspired, and I&#8217;ve been at this for about 20 years.
Nick Austin, Great Lakes Now: Shawn Malone is a photographer in Marquette, Michigan, and she&#8217;s been photographing the night sky since 1998.
Shawn Malone: When I started out photography, just regular landscape photography, I was using film cameras, negative film or slide film. You would have to wait until you get the film back to see what you got. So when I got the film back, it was like, &#8216;Wow!&#8217; I was just amazed. And then, like a once in 11-year event happened in 2004. It was an aurora that was in every direction, every color, and I shot two whole rolls of slide film that night.
Nick Austin: And when digital cameras became capable of capturing low light scenes, Shawn began shooting night sky time lapses, often featuring the northern lights.
Shawn Malone: And then I just really started learning all about space, weather, data and that kind of thing in order to try and put myself in the right position at the right time in order to be able to capture the aurora. You really have to scout out your own undiscovered locations where you are not going to have like a car light ruin your shot, you know, and if you plan a three hour shot for a time lapse, it&#8217;s something that can be an issue.
Here in Marquette County, where I&#8217;m at, we have a tremendous amount of public access to Lake Superior, and that allows people a chance to get to a dark sky location facing north over Lake Superior. That provides me, just geographically, the ability to look directly over Lake Superior and see a completely dark night sky facing north, directly north. And then I have a field of view that is one hundred eighty degrees to the east and west that has no obstruction. So that&#8217;s half of the battle in seeing the aurora, and the number two is getting rid of the obstructions and then being north enough in order to be able to catch the display. So this is one of the best places in the lower 48 to see the aurora.
Nick Austin: Nick Lake is Adler Planetarium&#8217;s manager of theater experience and presentation. He&#8217;s been introducing people to the wonders of the night sky since 2004 in the planetarium&#8217;s domed theaters. The real night sky can be less reliable, especially as you get further south.
Nick Lake, Manager of Theater Experience &amp; Presentation, Adler Planetarium: The northern lights are visible occasionally from some of the Great Lakes latitudes. I&#8217;ve seen them several times, from just about halfway up the midpoint of the lower peninsula of Michigan. So just north of Muskegon. With nighttime landscape photography, you can allow the lens to drink in more and more light and add in this sort of canvas of light on the picture. And it really will add more than you can see with the naked eye, which some people say, &#8216;Well, it&#8217;s, you know, that&#8217;s not really what it looks like,&#8217; but it is in fact real. It&#8217;s what is actually up there in the sky.
Nick Austin: One obstacle in seeing or photographing the night sky is light pollution.
Shawn Malone: Keep in mind that your night sky cameras now are much more sensitive than your eyes, so they&#8217;re really going to pick up any kind of light pollution that&#8217;s around. If you&#8217;re in Detroit, you just need to get out of Detroit because it&#8217;s just going to be too bright, and you won&#8217;t be impacted by cities further north where you really have a shot at looking at a nice dark sky. Same with Chicago, Milwaukee&#8230;
Nick Austin: Another source of troublesome light: the moon. If it&#8217;s too bright, it can obscure other celestial bodies.
Shawn Malone: When you get past the quarter moon, half moon, then you start to lose the darkness of the sky, so you do have to pay attention to that.
Nick Austin: Satellites are yet another concern. They&#8217;ve been orbiting above for decades, but they&#8217;re becoming more numerous.
Shawn Malone: Last February, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of Space X. They started launching their Starlink satellite constellation. The goal was to do every two weeks, have a launch of 60 satellites to eventually have thousands and thousands of satellites into this mega constellation that is encircling Earth. And I made it a point to follow the data on the satellite launches and try to track these things and document it. And it really gives a good look at how intrusive these satellite trains are to the night sky and the astronomers are just going nuts about it.
So yes, it&#8217;s very difficult to do a time lapse now of, let&#8217;s say, a two or three hour shot with the Milky Way going through the frame, with just not being able to watch it because it&#8217;s so jarring from all the satellites flying through the scene. And it&#8217;s very disturbing to the point that we don&#8217;t even know if we can continue with the night sky stuff because it&#8217;s just going to be so busy with these trains of satellites.
Nick Austin: In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic meant Nick Lake had to change the way he talked to the public about the night sky.
Nick Lake: When Adler closed to the public in middle of March, I was suddenly thrust into a place where I didn&#8217;t have domed theaters to present content, and I was itching for a way to continue to communicate with the public about the wonders of the sky, what they could see and to inspire them to get out there and look up for themselves.
Nick Austin: Nick now hosts the planetarium&#8217;s video series Skywatch Weekly.
Nick Lake: ‘Hey, stargazers, welcome back!’ Skywatch Weekly is a 5 to 10 minute weekly video series that we started at the middle part of April. Most of what we talk about is really visible from the northern hemisphere, specifically the mid-northern latitudes. So the entire Great Lakes region. We&#8217;re trying to keep it accessible to all audiences. There really is no substitute for being out and seeing these things for yourself in the sky. That&#8217;s what we hope to inspire people to do; kind of give examples of what you might see if you know where to look and when to look.
We&#8217;re kind of bringing the wonders of space to you and then helping you realize that it&#8217;s right outside your front door. You can go out there and see a lot of it for yourself. We really encourage people to start with the moon. It&#8217;s the easiest, the most obvious thing to see up there. So I think our moon, as big and as bright as it is, it really-really allows the imagination to-to work and hopefully inspires people to get out there and see more.
Shawn Malone: We can really get caught up in the screens of phones and computers, so it&#8217;s really nice to just unplug, calm down, and just take a walk or just observe what nature has to offer. I think it&#8217;s really important for people to not forget that.
Nick Lake: I think through the time of COVID, which we&#8217;re still in and we&#8217;ll be in for a while, it&#8217;s been important to find ways where we can still be united and not just separated and socially distanced, and the sky is a great way to do that, and especially the Moon. If the moon is full, it&#8217;s full for everyone. Everyone that night from a dark sky on planet Earth will see a full moon. And whatever phase it might happen to be. So I think it does lend a sense of unity, a sense of the same sky that we&#8217;re looking up at.

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As part of Asthma Awareness Month, the University of Public Health School of Michigan is co-organizing a Virtual City Hall with COVID313. The discussion will focus on air and asthma pollution, and includes presentations on changes in the Air quality in Detroit during the COVID-19 outbreak, discussions on cumulative risk and health impact assessments, and current actions being taken in Detroit to improve air and health quality.

WATCH – COVID313 Virtual Townhall: Healthy Environments and Air Quality

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<h2> Next on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>CHALKBEAT DETROIT SERIES: One Detroit and <a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chalkbeat Detroit</a> continue a special yearlong series following a group of Detroit high school graduates navigating their way through their first year in college. This week&#8217;s report looks at how university support services provide the students with much-needed assistance.
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<li><a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/ready-or-not/">ICYMI: Ready or Not: Finding a Way Through College, Part 1</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>GOVERNOR WHITMER: As Michigan Governor <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/columnists/carol-cain/2019/12/07/grethen-whitmer-governor-israel/4354923002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gretchen Whitmer</a> nears the end of her first year in office, Nolan and Stephen give their thoughts on what she has &#8212; and hasn&#8217;t &#8211;accomplished so far and what her priorities should be for 2020.</li>
<li>ZEBRA FISH: A Great Lakes Now report on how local university scientists are using zebra fish to help find out how chemicals in the water supply may affect the health of human beings.</li>
</ul>
Featured Image: On location at <a href="https://gocommonwealth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commonwealth Café</a> in Birmingham
 
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Wallace House Presented the 34th Graham Hovey Lecture with McKenzie Funk
<h2 style="text-align: center;">“Seeing Green: The Business and Inequity of Climate Change”</h2>
While the issue of climate change rises in importance to the U.S. electorate, players in energy, banking and business are cashing in on the environmental crisis. McKenzie Funk, a 2012 Knight-Wallace Fellow, is the author of “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming.” Watch for a critical discussion of drought, rising seas, profiteering and the hardest truth about climate change: It’s not equally bad for everyone.
About the Speaker:
McKenzie Funk writes for Harper’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. His 2014 book “Windfall” won a PEN Literary Award and was named a book of the year by The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Salon and Amazon.com. A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist, Funk won the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on the melting Arctic and has received fellowships at the Open Society Foundations and MacDowell Colony for his forthcoming work on data and privacy.
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Watch now – Seeing Green: The Business and Inequity of Climate Change

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<h2>Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>LIVERNOIS CONSTRUCTION:  A One Detroit report focuses on the massive <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/department-public-works/complete-streets/streetscape-program/livernois-streetscape-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streetscape construction project</a> that is hurting businesses along <a href="https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/8/1/20751235/livernois-avenue-of-fashion-detroit-road-construction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Livernois</a>, the Avenue of Fashion. Plus, Christy talks with the co-owner of <a href="https://www.theofficialbakerskeyboardlounge.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baker&#8217;s Keyboard Lounge</a> about how the construction is impacting his business and what the City of Detroit is doing in response to Livernois Avenue business owners&#8217; concerns.</li>
<li>WATER LEVELS:  A <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a> report takes a closer look at high <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2019/08/lake-levels-fall-caution-army-corps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">water levels</a> from neighborhoods in Detroit to all around the Great Lakes, and how scientists are trying to predict the cycle of water levels.</li>
<li>WOMEN DJ&#8217;S: A One Detroit report on the women DJ&#8217;s showcased at this year&#8217;s <a href="https://www.charivaridetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charivari Festival</a>, including the Godmother of House Music, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hotwaxx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stacey &#8220;Hotwaxx&#8221; Hale</a>. </li>
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Featured Image: The Bar at Baker&#8217;s Keyboard Lounge
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8/29/19: One Detroit – Livernois Construction / Water Levels / Women DJ’s

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<h2> Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IN DETROIT:  Stephen and Nolan are joined by two in-studio roundtable guests: <a href="https://bog.wayne.edu/members/kim-trent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Trent</a> of the Wayne State University Board of Governors and Compass Strategies and Howard Edelson of <a href="http://edelsongroup.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Edelson Group</a>.  They discuss the Democratic Presidential Debates in Detroit &#8212; the winners and losers, the topics, and the <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/30/detroiters-democratic-debate/1830931001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impact on Detroit</a> and Michigan.</li>
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Featured Image: View from the stage of the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ddohler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DDohler</a> via flickr.com cc 2.0 
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8/1/19: One Detroit – Democratic Presidential Debates in Detroit

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<h2> Next on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>LINE 5:  A special <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a> report tracing the history and controversy surrounding the <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/07/23/wisconsin-tribe-sues-enbridge-to-force-pipeline-removal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Line 5 pipeline</a> that carries oil and natural gas liquids beneath the Straits of Mackinac.</li>
<li>DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES&#8217; DEBATE: Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley talk about the upcoming Democratic Presidential Candidates&#8217; <a href="https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/7/24/20708507/democratic-debates-2019-detroit-what-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Debate in Detroit</a> and what should be on their urban agenda to resonate with Detroit voters.</li>
<li>DETROIT RIVERFRONT: Christy meets up with Detroit Riverfront Conservancy CEO <a href="https://detroitriverfront.org/our-story/board-directors/president-ceo-mark-c-wallace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Wallace</a> at Cullen Plaza to get an update on the exciting, new public spaces that are being developed along the riverfront.</li>
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Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit</a> every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.
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7/25/19: One Detroit – Line 5 / Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Debate / Detroit Riverfront

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July 16, 2019 | Bill Kubota | Detroit Public Television’s One Detroit
Some consider the canals in Detroit’s east side <a href="http://theneighborhoods.org/neighborhoods/jefferson-chalmers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jefferson Chalmers</a> neighborhood a hidden gem for tourists, but these past few months, Great Lakes water has no trouble finding them. The <a href="http://detroitarchitectjournal.blogspot.com/2013/10/eastside-venice-fox-creek-canals.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boat channels</a> near Ford Park along the Detroit River have been overflowing with this summer’s high water levels. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Lake St. Clair had the highest mean water levels in recorded history, which goes back to 1918.
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John Myers lives on Scripps St. with a backyard on the canal. The water that covers the street has receded, but it’s already gotten into his basement. Myers had gotten used to seeing more water in spring, but then the levels would drop.
&#8220;In the last two years, it seemed to never really tapering off during the summer like it usually does.&#8221;
Sandbags were installed along Myers’s part of the seawall by city volunteers and the Army Corps of Engineers in May, but the water now sits just a few inches from the top.
Meanwhile, sandbagging teams are fortifying more locations along the channels. This week, the city issued an emergency order to install more sandbags and protect those already in place. Part of the problem, Myers said, has to do with the infrastructure. He said there has been a lot more water than Detroit’s sewer storm system can handle.
Featured Image: The canal behind Scripps Street, Photo by Bill Kubota
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Record high water on Detroit’s East Side

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<h2>Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
<ul>
<li>ROUGE RIVER:  This Great Lakes Now report looks at the recent cleanup of the Rouge River and the impact it&#8217;s had on water quality in this river that stretches throughout southeast Michigan.</li>
<li>DEMOCRATIC DEBATES: Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley offer their perspectives on the upcoming <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/08/cnn-three-moderators-detroit-democratic-presidential-debates/1677805001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic Presidential Debates</a> in Detroit. They look at whether the debate format works and what voters can expect from the large field of candidates.</li>
<li>DETROIT STARS OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES: This year marks the <a href="https://nlbm.com/nlbm-announces-plans-to-celebrate-a-game-changing-century/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100th anniversary</a> of the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/sports/negro-league-baseball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Negro Baseball Leagues</a>&#8216; <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/black-history-month/heres-the-story-of-hamtramck-stadium-home-of-the-negro-leagues-detroit-stars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Stars</a> team. A new exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum focuses on the African-American players who were barred from the Major Leagues. In a segment from American Black Journal, Stephen talks with the daughter of legendary player Norman &#8220;Turkey&#8221; Stearnes and organizers of the exhibit.</li>
<li>DON WAS:  As the 27th annual <a href="http://concertofcolors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concert of Colors</a> kicks off in Detroit, One Detroit catches up with musician <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/20/blue-note-boss-don-was-interview-future-jazz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Was</a> as he rehearses for a special performance saluting 60 years of Motown. Plus, founder Ishmael Ahmed talks about what to expect at this year&#8217;s festival. </li>
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<h2><a href="https://video.dptv.org/show/miweek/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Clips &gt;</a></h2>
Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit</a> every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.
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7/11/19: One Detroit – Rouge River / Democratic Debates / Negro Baseball Leagues / Don Was

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Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) embarked on a six-stop Infrastructure Innovation Tour over nine months in 2018 and 2019 for the purpose of generating conversations about infrastructure needs, promote innovation, and foster future collaboration. The issues were identified in the report <a href="https://urcmich.org/reports/infrastructure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foundation for the Future: URC Contributions to Infrastructure Improvement</a> presented by the URC in spring 2018. Expert teams gathered at each tour stop to discuss issues and opportunities related to infrastructure challenges in water, mobility, energy, and communications.
The tour culminates in a tour wrap-up event in Detroit that shares tour highlights, themes common across Michigan, and potential implications for other communities facing similar infrastructure concerns. 
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Infrastructure Innovation Tour with the Michigan University Research Corridor

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<h2> Next on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>BETH NIBLOCK: Christy sits down with the City of Detroit&#8217;s Chief Information Officer, <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/government/mayors-office/chief-information-officer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beth Niblock</a>, to talk about how she and her team have brought the city&#8217;s information technology system up-to-date.</li>
<li>DONNA BRAZILE: Stephen Henderson talks with Democratic political strategist <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donna-brazile-joe-biden-kamala-harris-busing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donna Brazile</a> about President Donald Trump and the current political landscape in Washington, D.C.</li>
<li>BRIDGET MCCORMACK: Nolan Finley meets up with the newly-elected Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Bridget McCormack, to talk about perceptions of the court and what should be expected from the court system.</li>
<li>FILIPINO SUPPER CLUB: A special One Detroit report on a man who came up with the idea of creating a <a href="https://www.foodashealing.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Filipino Supper Club</a> as a way to stay connected to his ethnic and cultural roots by sharing authentic family recipes with a new group of Detroit friends.</li>
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Featured Image: Heron at the <a href="https://www.briggssculpture.com/detroitcarousel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cullen Family Carousel</a> located in Rivard Plaza, along the Detroit Riverwalk, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/harshlight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HarshLight</a> via flickr.com cc 2.0 
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7/4/19: One Detroit – Beth Niblock / Donna Brazile / Bridget McCormack / Filipino Supper Club

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June 5, 2019 | Bill Kubota | One Detroit
Hydroponic farms grow plants indoors without soil.
When those operations grow the plants on shelves under LED lights to take the sun’s place &#8211; that’s vertical farming.
In Detroit’s eastside Islandview neighborhood, a hydroponic vertical farm called <a href="https://planteddetroit.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">PlanTed</a> now operates out of an nondescript, once vacant 20,000 square foot industrial warehouse.
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<figure id="attachment_4589" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4589" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png" alt="" width="300" height="169" class="size-medium wp-image-4589" srcset="https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 1836w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 300w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 1024w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 768w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4589" class="wp-caption-text">PlanTed&#8217;s manager and partner Kimberly Buffington explains the operation</figcaption></figure>
 Manager Kimberly Buffington sees her company at the ground floor of a whole new industry.
&#8220;I relate it very much to the same time when Henry Ford was bringing the first Fords off the assembly line,&#8221; Buffington said, &#8220;we’re sort of at that point.&#8221;
The specialty crops include herbs, baby greens, and microgreens&#8211;a lot of them in demand by some of the high-end restaurants.
PlanTed also sells them at <a href="https://www.easternmarket.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Eastern Market</a>.
The viability of hydroponic farming has improved in recent years with more demand for local produce and better LED lighting technology created for indoor marijuana growers.
The farm’s temperature-controlled tents glow pink from specially made grow lights.
&#8220;The people that developed these lights have figured out that plants grow more effectively under specific wavelengths of light,&#8221; said farm manager Hunter Moore, &#8220;It’s actually a combination of red and blue wavelengths that they grow under, so that actually gets us a pretty consistent production and growth time.&#8221;
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Vertical farming has its challenges: real estate prices, building costs, along with electricity and labor expenses have taken down some <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/vertical-farming-houston/552665/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">vertical farmers</a> around the country.
But growing hydroponically could make sense in places like Detroit.
&#8220;Hydroponic agriculture is really the next level technique where you’re growing in an area where there’s no soil available or where the soil’s highly contaminated,&#8221; farmhand Allie Mason said. &#8220;It’s an excellent solution when you’re living in a highly urban setting to be able to grow hydroponically and not only are we growing hydroponically but vertically so we’re maximizing the use of space.&#8221;
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&#8220;We don’t have those fluctuations in weather that every farmer has to deal with,&#8221; said marketing leader Meg Burritt, &#8220;It makes it a lot more sustainable, we get a lot more predictable yield.&#8221;
And the yield is available fresh, local, year-round.
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Growing food in Detroit, no sunshine needed

2019-05-16_1441

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5/16/19: One Detroit – PFAS / Gerrymandering / Last Days of Chinatown / Neighborhood Natives

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Detroit Public TV was a major winner in the Excellence in Journalism Awards for television in this year’s Society of Professional Journalists Detroit Chapter contest, receiving 5 first place honors, more than any of its competitors. In addition, DPTV’s President and CEO, Rich Homberg, received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his achievements in local journalism, notably his role in making the public television station a leader in local environmental, cultural and community reporting.
Here are some of the comments the judges made in presenting Rich Homberg with the Lifetime Achievement Award: 
&#8220;Under his guidance, DPTV has established an active and growing editorial team in the heart of Detroit. Last year, it premiered the weekly ‘One Detroit’ news program, featuring on-location reports based on deep immersion in the communities it covers. It has adopted an innovative model for solutions journalism, taping frequent ‘roadshows,’ live community conversations at which residents are able to hear directly from public officials and community leaders on the issues that matter most to their lives, families and neighborhoods.&#8221;
The <a href="http://www.spjdetroit.org/">Society for Professional Journalists</a> is nation’s largest and most broad-based journalism association, for more than 100 years dedicated to encouraging a climate in which journalism can be practiced freely and fully, stimulating high standards and ethical behavior in the practice of journalism and perpetuating a free press.
Here are DPTV’s award winners:

<h2>First Place</h2>
 
Local News Reporting: 
Will Glover for &#8220;Youth Mentoring&#8221; at Islandview&#8217;s Church of the Messiah&#8221; 
Editor: Angie Brayman 
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Education Reporting: 
Bill Kubota for “Moving Costs at Detroit’s Bethune-Fitzgerald School” 
Editor: Jordan Wingrove 
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Environment Reporting: 
Mary Ellen Geist and Ed Moore for &#8220;Beneath the Surface: The Line 5 Pipeline in the Great Lakes&#8221; 
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General News Reporting: 
Bill Kubota for &#8220;Returning Citizens&#8221; 
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Racial Justice Reporting: 
Daphne Hughes and Stephen Henderson for the &#8220;American Black Journal Roadshow – African Americans: Telling Our Story&#8221; 
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<h2>Second Place</h2>

Feature Reporting: 
Jim Toscano, Ed Moore, Zosette Guir, Bill Kubota and Danny Gianino for &#8220;Detroit Designs the World&#8221; 
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Detroit PBS Leads Broadcast Category in Annual SPJ Excellence in Journalism Awards for 2019

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<h2> Next on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>NORTH CORKTOWN:  In this One Detroit report, residents in Detroit&#8217;s <a href="http://www.northcorktown.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Corktown</a> community talk about the changes in their neighborhood and their concerns over development during a lively community conversation hosted by Detroit Public Television and <a href="https://cdad-online.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Community Development Advocates of Detroit</a> (CDAD).</li>
<li>PFAS:  One Detroit takes a closer look at the man-made chemicals known as <a href="http://www.greatlakesnow.org/foreverchemicals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PFAS</a> that are threatening Michigan&#8217;s water supply.  Christy talks with <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a> Program Director Sandra Svoboda about the upcoming special on PFAS airing on DPTV.</li>
<li>HEADLINES:  Christy, Nolan and Stephen offer their perspectives on this week&#8217;s top headlines, including how Michigan&#8217;s attorney general Dana Nessel and 17 other attorneys general are calling for the public release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s full <a href="https://www.wilx.com/content/news/AG-Dana-Nessel-calling-for-full-Russia-investigation-report-507605131.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election.</li>
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<h2><a href="https://video.dptv.org/show/miweek/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Clips &gt;</a></h2>
Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit</a> every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.
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3/28/19: One Detroit – North Corktown / PFAS / Headlines

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Crain&#8217;s Detroit recently reported that Amazon is planning to invest $700 million in <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/manufacturing/plymouth-township-based-rivian-lands-700-million-investment-commitment-led-amazon?utm_source=crain-s-manufacturing-report&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20190215&amp;utm_content=article1-headline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Plymouth Township based Rivian</a>, maker of electric pick-up trucks and sports utility vehicles. Earlier last week, Reuters reported that GM was also interested in becoming a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rivian-electric-amazon-com-gm-exclusi/exclusive-amazon-gm-in-talks-to-invest-in-electric-pickup-truck-maker-rivian-sources-idUSKCN1Q12PV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stakeholder</a> .
Detroit Public Television’s One Detroit and Daily Detroit’s Sven Gustafson took a look at some of Rivian’s pre-production models last month.
Take a look at our report:
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The company has been working on concepts for ten years and made its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show late last year. 
Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe told Gustafson, &#8220;We wanted to make sure we weren’t just showing an idea or a sketch or a rendering, we were showing a proper vehicle fully engineered and had all the pieces together to deliver that.&#8221;
Featured Image: Rivian founder and CEO Robert &#8220;RJ&#8221; Scaringe standing on the side access panel of the Rivian R1T pickup, Photo by Richard Truesdell via wikimedia cc 4.0
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Amazon and ALJ give Rivian a boost

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<h2> Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
<ul>
<li>JOHN DINGELL:  As the nation bids farewell to the Dean of Congress this week, One Detroit remembers Congressman <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/remembering-john-dingell/582682/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Dingell</a> through one of his last interviews with Nolan Finley, when he talked about his life and legacy.</li>
<li>STATE OF THE STATE: <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90498_90646---,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Governor Gretchen Whitmer</a> gives her first <a href="https://youtu.be/_OU9Fn1T8b8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of the State</a> address. The One Detroit team analyzes the Governor&#8217;s <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/whitmer/20190212-Speech-Whitmer-SOTS19_646125_7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> and her <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/whitmer/SOTS19_Fact_Sheet_646128_7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">priorities</a> for Michigan.</li>
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<h2><a href="https://video.dptv.org/show/miweek/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Clips &gt;</a></h2>
Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit</a> every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.
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2/14/19: One Detroit – State of the State / John Dingell

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February 13, 2019 &#8211; Bill Kubota, Detroit Public Television’s One Detroit
Plymouth-based <a href="https://products.rivian.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rivian</a>, maker of electric pick-up trucks and sports utility vehicles planned to hit the market in the next two years. They could have General Motors and Amazon as stakeholders, according to a report from <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rivian-electric-amazon-com-gm-exclusi/exclusive-amazon-gm-in-talks-to-invest-in-electric-pickup-truck-maker-rivian-sources-idUSKCN1Q12PV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> this week.
Detroit Public Television’s One Detroit and <a href="http://www.dailydetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Detroit</a>’s Sven Gustafson took a look at some of Rivian’s pre-production models last month.
Take a look at our report:
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The company has been working on concepts for ten years and made its debut at the <a href="https://laautoshow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Auto Show</a> late last year.
Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe told Gustafson, &#8220;We wanted to make sure we weren’t just showing an idea or a sketch or a rendering, we were showing a proper vehicle fully engineered and had all the pieces together to deliver that.&#8221;
With the company close to production with an assembly plant in Illinois, the report said G.M. and Amazon might be injecting up to two billion dollars into the operation as minority stakeholders.
Featured Image: Debut of the Rivian R1S SUV at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show, Photo by Richard Truesdell via wikimedia cc 4.0
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A boost for Rivian?

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One Detroit contributor and Detroit News Editorial Page Editor, Nolan Finley, recently published an article reflecting on his longtime friendship with the late Congressman, <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2019/02/10/nolan-finley-friendship-john-dingell/2817084002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Dingell</a>.
A public visitation takes place today from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. The funeral service will be held tomorrow at the Church of the Divine Child, 1055 North Silvery Lane in Dearborn at 11 a.m.
In December 2018, Nolan sat down with the late Congressman to have an in-depth conversation about his career as well as his book, &#8220;The Dean: The Best Seat in the House&#8221;.
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Nolan Finley: Dingell knew how to live, how to love

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<h2>Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
Christy, Nolan and Stephen are at The <a href="https://greatlakescoffee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company</a> on Woodward in Midtown Detroit.
<ul>
<li>GOVERNOR WHITMER &amp; LINE 5: She just took office, but Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer already has made some moves involving the controversial <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/documents/whitmer/Governor_Whitmer_Letter_to_AG_Nessel_re_2018_PA_359_642447_7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Line 5</a> beneath the Straits of Mackinac. One Detroit explains where the issue stands and what the Governor wants done right away.</li>
<li>LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR GARLIN GILCHRIST II:  In this interview from <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Black Journal</a>, Stephen talks with the state&#8217;s new Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II about preparing for his new role and the administration&#8217;s top priorities.</li>
<li>NEW STATE LEADERSHIP:  The One Detroit team offer their perspectives on the new leadership and lawmakers in Lansing, their agenda, and the legislative action that has already occurred.</li>
<li>FAKE NEWS: In this One Detroit report, researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have come up with a method to weed out <a href="https://guides.lib.umich.edu/fakenews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fake news</a> stories from the real stories using a unique <a href="https://news.umich.edu/fake-news-detector-algorithm-works-better-than-a-human/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">algorithm</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Watch Now:</h2>
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<h2><a href="https://video.dptv.org/show/miweek/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Clips &gt;</a></h2>
Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit</a> every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.
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1/10/19: One Detroit – Governor Whitmer & Line 5 / Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II / New State Leadership / Fake News

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<h2>Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit will accept applications online through Feb. 5</h2>
The <a href="https://kresge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kresge Foundation</a> invites community-based nonprofits across Detroit to apply for a share of $1.5 million for projects that engage residents in revitalization.
The fifth annual round of <a href="https://kresge.org/library/kresge-innovative-projects-detroit-round-5-application-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kresge Innovative Projects</a>: Detroit will award grants of up to $35,000 for planning and up to $150,000 for the implementation of projects that reflect resident priorities to improve the quality of life in Detroit’s neighborhoods.
Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit (KIP:D) has fostered more than 70 planning and implementation projects to date. Those projects have included the renovation of vacant buildings into a variety of productive uses from laundromats and coffee houses to community art spaces and retail spaces.
Since 2015, the initiative has supported the creation of an agricultural greenway and other green uses, the conversion of unused second-floor commercial spaces into residences, and it has brought and community organizations together for collaborations in parks.  “We created this initiative because we know community-based groups and organizations across the city share residents’ desire for a better quality of life but need resources and technical support to turn their ideas into reality,” says Wendy Lewis Jackson, Kresge Detroit Program managing director.
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“The outpouring of great, transformative ideas has been continually gratifying.” Jackson says.
Kresge granted $5 million during the initial three-year pilot phase of KIP:D. Last year, the foundation recommitted to an additional three years and $6 million. The foundation is now making $1.5 million annually in KIP:D grants to organizations and providing $500,000 a year to provide grantees with technical assistance to facilitate a network of shared learning and mutual support. Kresge is partnering with Michigan Community Resources provide that support to KIP:D grantees.
As part of the outreach to potential applicants, the Kresge Detroit program has scheduled information sessions to provide more information about the application process:
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<li>Thursday, Jan. 17, at 5 p.m. <a href="https://www.marygrove.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marygrove College</a> – Main Dining Hall in the Madame Cadillac Building, 8425 W. McNichols.</li>
<li>Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 5 p.m. <a href="https://techtowndetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TechTown Detroit</a>, 440 Burroughs.</li>
<li>Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. <a href="http://www.gcfb.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gleaners Community Food Bank</a>, 2131 Beaufait.</li>
</ul>
Michigan Community Resources is also offering open office hours to provide individualized application assistance. Please see below for dates and times for these office hours. Please contact Amber Umscheid at <a href="mailto:aumscheid@mi-community.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aumscheid@mi-community.org</a> or (313) 949-7902 with any questions about open office hours:
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<li> Wednesday, Jan. 30 from 2:00-6:00pm: Mexicantown Latino Cultural Center 2835 Bagley, Detroit, MI 48073</li>
<li>Monday, Feb. 4 from 12:00-4:00pm: Gleaners 2131 Beaufait, Detroit, MI 48207</li>
</ul>
Applications must be made through Kresge’s online FLUXX system.
Learn more about KIP:D grantees named in <a href="https://kresge.org/library/kresge-announces-recipients-grants-neighborhood-projects-detroit">2015</a>, <a href="https://kresge.org/news/kresge-supports-21-projects-neighborhoods-across-detroit">2016</a>, <a href="https://kresge.org/news/2-million-kresge-supports-17-projects-neighborhoods-across-detroit">2017</a> and <a href="https://kresge.org/kipd2018">2018</a>.
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Kresge seeks neighborhood groups to share $1.5 million to improve quality of life in Detroit

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Life Remodeled is a Detroit non-profit that deploys its sizeable volunteer corps to rejuvenate neighborhoods via an annual cleanup marathon. One Detroit associate producer, Will Glover, was on site to capture their efforts.
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Life Remodeled | One Detroit

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<h2> Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>GOVERNOR&#8217;S RACE: One Detroit gets reaction from Michigan&#8217;s new Governor-elect, and the One Detroit team analyzes the victory by looking at voter turnout, President Trump&#8217;s influence, and the female factor in this year&#8217;s election.</li>
<li>STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL: The One Detroit team talks about the results in the Michigan Attorney General race between leading candidates, Republican Tom Leonard and Democrat Dana Nessel, as well as what issues the new attorney general will make a priority after taking office.</li>
<li>13th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Rashida Tlaib is poised to make history as the first Muslim-American woman in the U.S. Congress. The One Detroit team discusses what impact a last-minute write-in challenge by Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones had on Michigan&#8217;s 13th Congressional District race to replace U.S. Rep. John Conyers.</li>
<li>8th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: The One Detroit team analyzes the results in the tight race between Republican Mike Bishop and Democrat Elissa Slotkin in Michigan&#8217;s 8th Congressional District, and what it means for the Republican and Democratic parties.</li>
<li>LIFE REMODELED: In a special One Detroit report, we follow the non-profit organization Life Remodeled as they take on a massive clean up and beautification project spanning 300 blocks in Detroit and utilizing more than 10,000 volunteers.</li>
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11/8/18: One Detroit – 2018 Election Results / Life Remodeled

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Bottled water has replaced the drinking fountains in Detroit’s public schools as they opened this week.
The district feared possible lead in the water throughout the system after testing found elevated lead levels in 34 of its 106 schools.
Flint pediatrician <a href="https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=627338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha</a> told One Detroit’s Stephen Henderson on WDET’s Detroit Today radio program she applauds Detroit Schools for taking that step.
“This is a positive ripple effect of the Flint crisis,” she said, “It’s a recognition that we do have lead in our water and we do have lead in our water in our schools, not only in Flint but all over the state and all over this nation.”
Dr. Hanna-Attisha found herself at the center of the Flint water crisis in 2015 when she discovered elevated lead levels in schoolchildren.
She detailed her story in her book What the Eyes Don’t See, released in June this year.
Last month the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a survey about lead in the water in the nation’s schools following the events in Flint.
Of the school districts tested, 43 percent tested positive for lead. Of those, 37 percent found elevated levels and reduced or eliminated the problem.
The G.A.O. noted there is no federal law requiring the testing of drinking water in schools that receive water from public water systems.
Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
A change made to the Act in 2011 reduced the amount of allowable lead allowed in drinking water.
“These rules and regulations are not strong enough,” Dr. Hanna-Attisha said, “They have not caught up with the science, especially the science of lead where we now know there is no safe level.”
Watch some of Dr. Hanna-Attisha talking with One Detroit’s Stephen Henderson, which aired on <a href="https://wdet.org/shows/detroit-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-2133 " src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg" alt="" width="40" height="40" srcset="https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg 400w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg 300w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 40px) 100vw, 40px" /></a>August 30, 2018.
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Detroit Schools drinking water shutoff “a positive ripple effect of the Flint crisis”

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<h2>“Higher than acceptable” levels of lead, copper in 16 schools</h2>
It’s not a great way to begin the new school year.
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Water at the 16 Detroit Public Schools where what the superintendent is calling “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/detroit-schools-use-bottled-water-due-lead-copper-concerns-n904946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher than acceptable</a>” lead and copper levels were detected was shut off on Tuesday of this week. 18 Detroit Public Schools already had water shut off due to water quality concerns, bringing the total of schools that have no drinking water to 34. Bottled water and water coolers are being brought in so kids will have safe clean drinking water as classes begin. Classes are scheduled to start next week (September 4th for most schools) as planned.
The Detroit Public School District has approximately 52,000 students in 104 schools.
Staff and families were informed of the decision to shut off drinking water in Detroit Public Schools via robocalls on Tuesday. However, city officials say the water coming out of the taps at Detroit resident’s homes and businesses is safe.
<h2>Aging school infrastructure is the reason for the precautionary measure</h2>
Great Lakes Now checked with the Great Lakes Water Authority and Detroit Water and Sewerage which supply water throughout the city.
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We received the following statement in an email: “The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) and the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) want to assure Detroit residents and customers of GLWA&#8217;s regional system that they are not affected by the lead and copper issues that the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is experiencing. Aging school infrastructure (i.e. plumbing) is the reason for the precautionary measure of providing bottled water. The treated drinking water provided by GLWA and distributed by DWSD not only meets, but surpasses all federal and state Safe Drinking Water Act regulations for quality and safety. The water at GLWA’s treatment plants is tested hourly and DWSD has no lead service lines connected to any DPSCD building. The drinking water is of unquestionable quality. GLWA and DWSD stand ready to provide any technical assistance to DPSCD.”
Detroit Public School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti tells Great Lakes Now: “I initiated water testing of all of our school buildings during the spring to ensure the safety of our students and employees. This was not required by federal, state, or city law or mandate. This testing, unlike previous testing, evaluated all water sources from sinks to drinking fountains. This past week initial results were returned for 24 schools and higher than acceptable levels were identified for copper and/or lead in 16 schools at one or more water sources. I immediately turned off the drinking water at those schools and provided water bottles until water coolers arrive.”
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Superintendent Vitti says, “When I started as superintendent last year, I was notified that 10 schools were using a DiHydro filtration system. I made the decision to shut off all drinking fountains and provide bottled water and water coolers to those schools at that time because of my concerns with water quality despite the intervention. The latest water results (16 schools), coupled with those from 2016 (10 DiHydro schools) and follow up results in the spring of 2018 for schools identified with concerns in 2016 (8 schools) in the spring, brings the total number of schools with water quality issues to 34.”
Superintendent Vitti says there’s no evidence right now of copper or lead in the more than 50 other schools in the district, but he says, “Out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of our students and employees, I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools.”
<h2>There are no government regulations requiring the testing of water at schools</h2>
Great Lakes Now contacted The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to find out more about the rules regarding testing of water for public schools. MDEQ Public Information Officer Tiffany Brown says, “There are no government regulations requiring the testing of water at schools. The department is contacting the school system to offer assistance and will also work with their water supply.”
Thomas Lyon who holds the Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, with appointments in both the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, says &#8220;It is deeply disheartening that Detroit schools have these water problems. Still, it is encouraging that Superintendent (Nikolai) Vitti had them tested and responded quickly when the results showed elevated levels of lead or copper.”
Lyon says, &#8220;If there is any positive legacy to the Flint disaster, it is in creating greater awareness of threats to safe drinking water and the need for vigilance. Even if the municipal water supply system is providing high-quality water, old water pipes in buildings can cause contamination. It is a good sign that Detroit is taking proactive measures to protect its school children.&#8221;
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Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of the organization called FLOW (for love of water) based in Traverse City tells Great Lakes Now, &#8220;Today&#8217;s news is simply horrific. As of now, we have no idea how long the young minds and future generation of Detroit have been exposed to harmful levels of lead and copper.  Moreover, the joint statement from DWSD and GLWA brings no comfort to Detroiters as these agencies blame aging school infrastructure for this public health crisis.  What other aging infrastructure must be tested for lead service lines? According to the 2017 report authored by the Urban Institute, eighty percent of Detroit’s housing supply was built before 1960.&#8221;
Simone Lightfoot, National Director of Urban Initiatives at the National Wildlife Federation blames Detroit&#8217;s water problems on the emergency manager systems that usurp statutory regulations, offer inadequate transparency and woefully unacceptable record keeping.&#8221; The state of Michigan has had some sort of emergency manager law since 1988.  This summer , Governor Snyder&#8217;s office announced that Michigan school districts and cities are collectively operating without a single emergency manager for the first time in nearly 18 years.  Lightfoot tells Great Lakes Now. &#8220;These predictable factors correlate directly to our water being compromised. &#8221; She says, &#8220;Under emergency manager, historically steeped and common sense measures are replaced by practices such as going from no water bills to excessive water costs in Highland Park, inhumane water shutoffs in Detroit, the virtual give away of water front property in Benton Harbor and lead poisoning in Flint.  All under emergency manager governance.&#8221;
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Lightfoot says the Detroit Public Schools Drinking Water Shut off should be a massive wake-up call that moves people to action in the state of Michigan and beyond. She says, &#8220;Funders and those that influence resources have to begin to value and redirect funds to resident and citizen science efforts, advocacy, outreach and community education again, particularly in urban centers.  They must understand that getting information to people, having science gathered and interpreted into mobilizing efforts, convenings centered around alternative financing and crafting water policy to hand deliver to elected officials should be a baseline.  At all levels, our current government struggles to provide basic data and thresholds, water testing, natural resource protection and science based solutions.  Without this and other needed changes, our mounting problems with water quality, availability, affordability and access have only just begun.&#8221;
<h2>“Legislators are not prioritizing the children of Detroit”</h2>
Great Lakes Now wanted to find out more about what Detroit Public School students think about the fact that they’ll be going back to school in buildings where the water is believed to be unsafe to drink. 17-year old Elisa Estrella, who’s a rising senior at Cass Tech, says when she learned the news on Instagram and Snapchat on Wednesday, “I was concerned. Like, are they going to fix it? I was thinking about what happened in Flint: they didn’t have safe drinking water for 4 years. That’s crazy.”
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Another Cass Tech student, 17-year old Pamela Beltran, tells Great Lakes Now the news is “disheartening.” But she says, “I’m not really surprised. Detroit Public Schools have the lowest resources but we’re expected to perform at the highest standards. This demonstrates how legislators are not prioritizing the children of Detroit. We’re not getting the resources we need.” Great Lakes Now contacted the students with the help of the citywide education organizing network in Detroit called 482Forward.
Great Lakes Now received this statement from Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s office:
“We are fully supportive of the approach Dr. Vitti has taken to test all water sources within DPS schools and to provide bottled water until the district can implement a plan to ensure that all water is safe for use. We will be supporting Dr. Vitti in an advisory capacity through the health department and the DWSD has offered to partner with the district on any follow up testing that needs to be done. We also will be reaching out to our charter operators in the coming days to work with them on a possible similar testing strategy to the voluntary one Dr. Vitti has implemented. “
Great Lakes Now also contacted Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s office. Deputy Press Secretary Tanya Baker says the Governor does not have a statement at this time but says the Governor’s office has asked the DEQ to look into the matter.
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Drinking water shut off at all Detroit Public Schools

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Detroit author Anna Clark sits down with One Detroit producer, Will Glover, to talk about her book, &#8216;The Poisoned City: Flint&#8217;s Water and the American Urban Tragedy&#8217;. In this account of the Flint water crisis, Clark writes about the series of decisions that ultimately led to the poisoning of Flint&#8217;s water supply, the plight of its residents battling for accountability, and the long road ahead to recovery.
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One Detroit Report | Anna Clark, Author of ‘The Poisoned City’

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PFAS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination has recently been making headlines as a threat to clean drinking water.
Last Sunday, the State of Michigan confirmed PFAS contamination in two townships in Kalamazoo County. According to Mary Ellen Geist&#8217;s article in <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2018/07/michigans-pfas-contamination-emergency/">GreatLakesNow.org</a>:
&#8220;The state of emergency declaration in parts of Kalamazoo County came just a few days after new revelations of PFAS contamination from Michigan’s Selfridge air base into Lake St. Clair and the Clinton River were revealed, and other suspected sites from Otsego County to Saginaw to Western Michigan to the Upper Peninsula were being examined by State Inspectors.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says there are now 35 confirmed sites in the state that are contaminated with PFAS. And more than 11,000 sites have the potential to be contaminated with PFAS-containing materials or waste.&#8221;
Protecting Michigan residents from contaminated drinking water would be one of the many responsibilities a new governor would take on. But what would their approach be? During the recent gubernatorial candidate interviews conducted by the Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Hassan Khalifeh of the Arab American News and New Michigan Media asked 6 of the gubernatorial candidates:
&#8216;How do you intend to combat water contamination caused by industrial chemical spills like PFAS?&#8217;
Brian Calley (R):
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Brian Calley: First of all, having standards in the first place is really important. We were surprised to learn that there really was not a federal standard on PFAS. There were suggestions. By rule, we established a standard so that we would have something to even enforce in the first place. PFAS is a good example of an issue where the main contaminants or problems are things that happened in the past. They are being recognized or realized now. We have to be very aggressive. We are developing the science. We are part of developing the science around this in the first place. Surprisingly little has been done around the country, even though this is a problem all over the country. It is everything from military bases to like Scotchgard operations that use that type of material. Setting up testing facilities and identifying what the extent of the problem is is the chief or the first step.
Then in terms of how to fix it going forward, really there are only three states that are actively engaged or working on this. This is including Michigan. I expect that this is going to be a big national issue. This is going to be something that other states wake up to. It is my hope that working together, we can find a better path forward.
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Patrick Colbeck (R):
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Patrick Colbeck: Well, first of all, you monitor it and you understand where you’re actually getting contamination, making sure that people are held responsible and they actually do that. I’ve got an issue with vinyl chloride spill here in my district right now at a plant in Livonia. What I’ve been working with DEQ and also DHHS on is how do you determine what a clean bill of health is for the people that are in that community because there’s a health issue associated with it. There’s also a property value issue because they’re going to try to sell their home, and they’ve got the issue of a vinyl chloride spill in their neighborhood.
So what I’ve done is come up with an approach to DHHS and DEQ, and I said I want to come up with a &#8220;Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval&#8221; that says that I know that these homes right here are safe because they meet some minimum essential threshold or whatever of safety on particular vinyl chloride levels. And also the same thing in regard to property values, I want to be able to say that these are well within acceptable levels for any sort of transaction or sale of that home. So I try to work with it to get back to the homeowners and get them some peace of mind, first and foremost. And if that involves remediation on the part of the offending party, then we’ll make sure that there is remediation steps taken and hold them accountable.
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JIm Hines (R):
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Jim Hines: Absolutely. There are over 7,000 toxic sites across the state. 3,000 of those are orphan sites where we don’t know those responsible for the leakage or are no longer there. Those sites, many of them, are potentially leaking contaminates into our groundwater system, which then leads to our rivers and lakes. This has to be dealt with and not just ignored. It has to be at the top of the list. We have to deal with it. The question always is well, what about funding?
And I think two parts on that. One is we have tried in the last ten years, and longer, to clean up those sites, but it’s interesting if you look at the accountability part of that. A lot of that money was used for parks and walkways and tennis courts and swimming pools, so it wasn’t all used for toxic clean-up. I’m talking about using the money for what it’s designated for. I would look at tipping fees. This is the cost that we charge for people to dump trash in Michigan.
We’re an international dumping site, international. When we look at the trash that’s dumped in Michigan, there are states that are trucking it in 100 miles because we’re only $0.36 a ton. Wisconsin’s $13 a ton. We’re not in sync with the states around us, and so we’re like a magnet attracting trash to the state of Michigan. We really don’t need other people’s dirty diapers and banana peels and coffee grounds and things like that. We just don’t need them.
I believe that we should increase our tipping fee so that it matches, or is similar to, the states that are around us so that we’re not that magnet. The funds that we get from the trash that’s dumped here, I believe, could be used for these toxic sites. It’s been shown, easily, 79, $80 million could be garnished that we could use to clean up the sites.
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Abdul El-Sayed (D):
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Abdul El Sayed: The only way that we get this right really over the long term is to prevent it from happening in the future, right? That is the most important thing. Cleaning up is very, very hard to do. And yes, we need to make those investments. But unless we get serious about standing up to these big corporate polluters who have had their way with our air and water. We are going to keep watching these things happen. My mom, my step-mom grew up in Kershaw County Michigan. And her brother was affected by the PBBs poisoning in that part of the state because of Dow Chemical. And every year he has to go to the doctor and he has to get screened for the many different kinds of cancers that come because of that. Why did that happen? Because the State didn&#8217;t take its responsibility to a regulation seriously.
We are watching as Republicans are trying to strip away everything that the DEQ can do to even regulate in the first place. I mean they are trying to replace the DEQ&#8217;s regulatory capacity with a commission of CEOs of industry, right? We know what decisions they are going to make. I mean right now the DEQ is headed by a former oil executive of BP. And we watch as the decisions continue to get made. When I was at the Health Department one of the most important things that we did was stood up to the DEQ and Marathon Petroleum when they wanted to raise their emissions of sulfur dioxide. And I couldn&#8217;t believe that I was a health director was standing up and facing down a group of bureaucrats at the Department of Environmental Quality having to explain to them why raising the amount of sulfur dioxide in the air wasn&#8217;t a good thing in a city with three fold probability of asthma hospitalizations in the state.
We have got to stand up our DEQ again. And that is why I believe these robust investments in a DEQ that has the capacity to regulate, has the capacity to promulgate rules, has the capacity to actually regulate on big corporate polluters is critical. From there one of the parts that we are going to have to get right is clean up. Clean up is really hard. Once you put those kind of organic compounds into the world they are really, really hard to put back in, put back into the bottle again. And so those investments are going to be things that we have to keep fighting for. But until we get it right not just on the clean up but on the prevention we are going to keep watching these things happen.
It&#8217;s sad to me that as a state that is defined by its fresh water we are the epicenter of water related disasters whether it&#8217;s the Flint water crisis, whether it&#8217;s the water shut offs in Detroit or whether it&#8217;s PFOS in the water in communities across the state. I mean we&#8217;ve got to get this right.
Hassan Khalifeh: How exactly would you give the MDQ &#8212; DEQ the authority to do the things it should be doing?
Abdul El Sayed: So part of it is to build its budget out. Right now at $27 million it is one of the most poorly funded agencies in this state. And one of the most poorly funded departments of its kind nationwide. We&#8217;ve got to invest in it again the people doing the work. A part of it right now is that we are going to have to fight for legislation that allows it to promulgate rules. That allows it to actually say look, the intent of the law is this, which means that the application of the law ought to look in these following ways. Because now, it is kind of hamstrung. They are fighting the fight with one arm behind their back. This is not to call out the civil servants who work at the DEQ aside from the director of the DEQ, those folks are there because they believe in the work. But they just haven&#8217;t had the means to do the work either because of the legislation on the ground or because they haven&#8217;t had the funding that they needed. So we got to fight on both fights.
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Shri Thanedar (D):
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Hassan Khalifeh: So, you had talked about contamination by industrial corporations and Enbridge 5, which isn’t the only threat to the Great Lakes. Can you talk specifically how you would combat contamination by industrial sources?
Shri Thanedar: Yes.
Hassan Khalifeh: Like including chemicals like PFAS?
Shri Thanedar: Yes. So, you know, we do have a fund for cleanup but that fund has run out of money. And what I would do is I would require industries to have a cleanup fund. So, there should be a bank – a cleanup bank – where we ensure that funds are in the bank so that when there is a contamination or when there is a spill, we have money available to clean up.
We have about 700 sites that need cleanup. We have dangerous cancer-causing chemicals in our grounds and in our soil. And that poses a danger to the lives of Michiganders. And I’m going to hold the corporations accountable. I believe – and I’ve run small businesses, I’ve run chemical/ pharmaceutical testing businesses, and I’ve dealt with toxic chemicals. But I’ve always followed all of the regulations and I’m able to make a profit and pay my employees well despite that.
So, the Republican myth that you can’t have regulations or you can’t hold corporations accountable because that will affect the jobs is not true. You know, following the regulations and not polluting our environment is just a good business and that’s the practices that they must follow. And I would hold corporations accountable.
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Gretchen Whitmer (D):
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Gretchen Whitmer: Well I think first and foremost we get experts leading our departments in Michigan. No cronies, no buddies and certainly lobbies of BP heading up our environmental quality and DNR departments. Second, it’s a complicated issue. There is no easy, quick fix. That’s what’s so scary about it because it’s devastating. The potential problems that people are going to face because of PFAS but we’ve got to serious about this. These bases where a lot of this has happened, it’s on the feds to pay to fix it, to remedy this. In some cases, we might not be able to fix it and that’s what’s so scary. They’ve got to provide clean drinking water for people who own property that is now less valuable and that can’t produce water coming out of their taps that they can consume. I don’t know that there’s an easy fix but we’ve got to get to work doing it. We can’t pretend it’s not happening. We can’t pretend that this isn’t a real threat to individuals in our state but to our state as a whole as well.
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More on the Detroit Journalism Cooperative Gubernatorial Candidate Interviews:
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This year, Michigan voters will be selecting a new governor, who will be facing important issues that will determine the health and vitality of the state for years to come.
The first step in the electoral process is the state primary on August 7, when the standard bearer for both the Democratic and Republican parties will be determined.
The Detroit Journalism Cooperative invited all major party candidates to the Detroit Public Television studio for individual, hour-long interviews with a panel of its reporters. The candidates received virtually the same questions and were able to respond at length, providing voters with a much more in-depth and contextual understanding of where each stood on the issues of importance to the state than they can glean from conventional coverage.
So please consider their opinions carefully and, most of all, vote!
Every candidate accepted the invitation to be interviewed except for Attorney General Bill Schuette.
<a href="https://www.detroitjournalism.org/2018/07/20/michigan-gubernatorial-candidates-on-the-issues/">Click here for more on the Detroit Journalism Cooperative&#8217;s interviews with the gubernatorial candidates &gt;</a>
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How would the candidates combat water contamination such as PFAS?

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The MiWeek team&#8211;Christy McDonald, Stephen Henderson, and Nolan Finley&#8211;talk about another new development along the Detroit riverfront, the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center. The outdoor adventure center is a space where families and kids can explore nature right in the heart of downtown Detroit.
Interested in more MiWeek on the Riverfront? Check out the entire episode here:
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Line 5 is 65 years old. Every few months, it seems, we are reminded of the precariousness of its condition.
In <a class="link-external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #5da8ba;" href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/04/16/state-probe-enbridges-line-5-continues/520074002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent weeks</a> a dragging anchor on a large vessel knocked three dents in the line, and ruptured a coolant line, spilling its chemicals into the Great Lakes.
We only know about damage when it occurs because of self-reporting, as was the case when VanEnkevort Tug and Barge reported the recent anchor incident. That self-reporting goes for Line 5 as well, which is owned by Enbridge, a Canadian oil company.
“We only really do have the eyes of Enbridge,” says Mary Ellen Geist, Great Lakes Bureau Chief with Detroit Public Television. Geist is also the producer of a new DPTV documentary titled <a class="link-external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #5da8ba;" href="http://video.dptv.org/video/3011697029/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Beneath the Surface: the Line 5 Pipeline in the Great Lakes.”</a>
Beth Wallace with the <a class="link-external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #5da8ba;" href="https://www.nwf.org/Great-Lakes.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Wildlife Federation</a> says it’s only in recent years, as state officials have begun to inquire about Line 5’s status, that it has become clear the pipeline is not in pristine condition.
“This 65-year-old pipeline has run its life,” says Wallace.
State officials <a class="link-external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #5da8ba;" href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/04/17/schuette-civil-action-coming-over-line-5-damage/523338002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Detroit News</a> recently that Enbridge has been on top of recent concerns with the pipeline’s viability:
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“Enbridge is very pro-active, and they’ll take any steps necessary to make sure they maintain their pipeline,” said Scott Schaefer, an on-scene coordinator for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. “The state works with them and we will receive the information that they collect.”
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“Beneath the Surface” debuts April 25, at 10 pm, with a panel discussion post-show on the future of Line 5.
To hear more about the documentary on Detroit Today, and concerns surrounding Line 5, click on the audio player above.
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<a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2018/04/beneath-the-surface-a-new-documentary-from-detroit-public-television/">Click here for more on Beneath the Surface</a>, which premieres tonight at 10:00 p.m., followed by a half hour special hosted by Christy McDonald, which follows up on the future of Line 5, at 10:30 p.m.
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Detroit’s Proud Earth Day History 
By John Hartig 
April 13, 2018
As we approach the celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd, it is a good time to look back and reflect on Detroit’s proud Earth Day history.
Wisconsin U.S Senator Gaylord Nelson initiated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" id="plugin_obj_1888649" class="alignleft" title="Image - SBHarborSeawallOilSpill.jpg" src="http://pbs.bento.storage.s3.amazonaws.com/hostedbento-prod/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/dptvpgms/gln/SBHarborSeawallOilSpill.jpg__400x269_q85_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg" alt="Image - SBHarborSeawallOilSpill.jpg" width="399" height="269" />It was just one year after the <a style="background-color: transparent; color: #1ea2d4;" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-barbara-oil-spill-1969-20150520-htmlstory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1969 Santa Barbara, California oil spill</a> that spewed over four million gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean and the 1969 fires on the <a style="background-color: transparent; color: #1ea2d4;" href="http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cuyahoga</a> and Rouge rivers caused by massive oil pollution.
Senator Nelson was concerned that industrialized countries like the U.S. were too careless with the environment and needed to do much more to protect it.   He proposed several reforms to address this growing concern, including holding a national Earth Day every April 22nd.
Senator Nelson recruited <a style="background-color: transparent; color: #1ea2d4;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hayes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denis Hayes</a> to organize the first Earth Day because of his experience as a student activist against the Vietnam War at Stanford University.
Hayes went on to expand Earth Day to more than 190 nations through the Earth Day Network.
“Auto and other factory workers were some of the first to speak out against this pollution”
During this time, our Detroit River ran grey to brown to black, and was considered one of the most polluted rivers in the United States.  Auto and other factory workers were some of the first to speak out against this pollution and advocate for improved outdoor recreational opportunities, conservation, and pollution control.  These auto and other industrial workers living in and around Detroit spent long hours in factories and had long turned to fishing and hunting to counteract their sense of estrangement from the natural world.  To support these outdoor recreational activities, they joined sportsmen’s clubs.  These automobile and other factory workers’ first-hand experiences with water and air pollution put them in the forefront of efforts to control pollution and benefit from outdoor recreational pursuits like fishing and hunting.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" id="plugin_obj_1888655" class="alignright" title="Image - UAW_Environmental_Flyer.png" src="http://pbs.bento.storage.s3.amazonaws.com/hostedbento-prod/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/dptvpgms/gln/UAW_Environmental_Flyer.png__270x350_q85_subsampling-2_upscale.png" alt="Image - UAW_Environmental_Flyer.png" width="270" height="350" />These factory workers adeptly used union organizing skills and non-formal educational methods to accomplish their goal.  They were the ones most impacted by in-plant hazards of the proliferation of toxic substances and most apt to be exposed to pollution released from by industries in the surrounding communities where they lived.  For years, their economic circumstances required them to think first of jobs, paychecks, and bread on the table.  But they had had enough and became early champions for a clean environment.
For example, the United Auto Workers (UAW) created the Downriver Anti-Pollution League in 1969 to raise awareness of water pollution and fight for the protection of the environment.  They became key leaders in the first Earth Day to help build a national consciousness about pollution of the environment.  Early on, the UAW recognized that raising awareness was a critical step in achieving pollution control and environmental protection.  To accomplish this goal, they held a wake on the Detroit River symbolizing its death on the first Earth Day – April 22, 1970.
“I don’t want the flowers to get contaminated”
Boats from both the UAW and its Canadian counterpart the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) met in the middle of the river to hold the wake and place a floral wreath on the murky waters of the Detroit River.  Mrs. Peter Naccrato, Vice-Chairperson of the Downriver Anti-Pollution League, quickly retrieved the wreath from the Detroit River saying: “I don’t want the flowers to get contaminated.”
The event received much media coverage.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" id="plugin_obj_1888657" class="alignleft" title="Image - 22nd_UAW_Constitutional_Convention_in_Atlantic_City_New_Jersey.png" src="http://pbs.bento.storage.s3.amazonaws.com/hostedbento-prod/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/dptvpgms/gln/22nd_UAW_Constitutional_Convention_in_Atlantic_City_New_Jersey.png__400x265_q85_subsampling-2_upscale.png" alt="Image - 22nd_UAW_Constitutional_Convention_in_Atlantic_City_New_Jersey.png" width="400" height="265" />The following statement from a 1970 resolution, adopted at the 22nd UAW Constitutional Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, demonstrates best the UAW’s role in raising environmental awareness and consciousness: “In the pellmell rush for technological advancement, we have paid too little attention to the destruction wreaked upon the natural world about us.  We must learn to master the forces of technological changes and bend them in constructive, creative and responsible directions so that we can continue to increase our material affluence without corrupting or destroying our living environment.”
Later in his career, Senator Gaylord Nelson acknowledged that the UAW and other labor unions became important constituencies in the modern environmental movement.
“This experience led to my career as a Great Lakes scientist”
My personal connection to the first Earth Day is that I was a senior in Allen Park High School and participated in an outdoor Earth Day rally in the football stadium with over 1,000 students.  <a style="background-color: transparent; color: #1ea2d4;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolton_Ferency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zolton Ferency</a>, a long-time political activist who served as President of the Peace Party, was the keynote speaker. This experience, along with my many first-hand experiences with pollution of the Detroit River, led me to my career as a Great Lakes scientist and advocate for protecting the environment.
We must all remember that the seeds of labor environmentalism that were sown in the 1960s played a key role in the establishment of Earth Day and subsequently the 1972 U.S. Clean Water Act, the 1972 U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the 1973 U.S. Endangered Species Act, and even the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge established in 2001.
Indeed, we all must remember that we are today standing on the shoulders of giants like the UAW, CAW, Michigan United Conservation Clubs, and Pointe Mouillee Waterfowl Festival, all early champions of protecting the environment.
According to Earth Day Network, more than one billion people across the globe will participate in Earth Day activities this year.  It is now the largest civic event in the world, celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all nationalities, faiths, and backgrounds.  As we think about and celebrate Earth Day this year, it is important to remember Detroit’s key role in the first Earth Day and the example set by UAW and CAW workers.  Our work to protect the environment is not done.  Those UAW and CAW workers should be an inspiration to us all to continue the fight to protect the environment in an effort to help build sustainable communities.
We need to accept this responsibility to protect the environment as our home, do our individual parts, and pass it along as a gift to future generations.

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