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Plastics: In our land, water and food. Now our air.
By Stacy Gittleman Benjamin Braddock, the protagonist in the classic 1967 movie The Graduate, played by a young Dustin Hoffman, is led to...
- 3 days ago
Phoenix rising? Pontiac on the edge of a recovery.
One hundred years ago, riding north up Woodward Avenue from Detroit to Pontiac was a voyage from one successful urban landscape to another.…
- Sep 28
EJ: assessing the systemic quality of life issues
Most Michiganders place a value on natural resources and environmental stewardship. They want to protect the environment so they can enjoy…
- Sep 28
Prepping for a possibility of survival challenges
The last few years' global calamities sound like eerie passages straight out of from the Bible – a deadly world-wide pandemic…
- Aug 24
The role of wind and solar in the future of power
Early August – specifically August 10 – will be remembered as an important day for the environment. The United Nations issued a grim…
- Aug 24
Voting rights: The historic and ongoing skirmishes
Depending on your point of view, the 2020 general election was the most secure in history, or rife with fraud, bringing forth illegitimate…
- Jul 27
Critical race theory: politics enters the classroom
Over Memorial Day weekend of 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a district of the city known as Greenwood, filled with affluent and educated…
- Jul 27
Forever chemicals and our food, water supply
Although what we now refer to as “forever chemicals” or PFAS have been around since the 1940s, scientists, researchers, and government…
- Jun 23
Warming waters: Lakes signal climate change
Coming across a body of water in Michigan doesn't take very long. Whether it’s the Great Lakes, which, according to the United States…
- Jun 23
Transgender, non-binary search for selves, rights
Blake Bonkowski grew up in Royal Oak uncomfortable in his own skin, not knowing who he was, bullied as an outsider throughout school because
