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There are lots of hopeful signs that Detroit is taking sustainability seriously, with bicycling, recycling, urban agriculture, green architecture and renewable energy each at the forefront of serious conversations about the city's future. A long time coming, but well worth the wait.

Green Features

Recycling in Detroit: You made it happen

Matthew Naimi Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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

Green City Diaries: Shear Innovation, Part 1

Matthew Piper Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Sustainability and hair styling go hand in hand, says Green City diarist Matt Piper, who visits the Social Club Grooming Company this week and Curl Up and Dye next week to find out what they are doing to positively impact the environment.

UIX: Michael Davis and Hamtown Farms

Tunde Wey Tuesday, February 26, 2013

He started Hamtown Farms, a plot of land nestled between Kowalski Sausage, Lumpkin St. and an alley, after eating a strange-tasting fruit with the equally strange name of paw-paw. Tunde Wey introduces us to Michael Davis.

Talking energy and environment with the State's Valerie Brader

Veronica Gracia-Wing Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Affordable energy, reliable energy, and protecting our environment were part of the governor's recent 'Ensuring our future' message. Veronica Gracia-Wing digs into the details with the governor's deputy legal council and senior policy advisor.

Green City Diaries: Good food, the new frontier

Matthew Piper Tuesday, November 27, 2012

In this month's entry, Matt Piper gets people thinking about the empowering simplicity of health, quality, freshness and convenience when it comes to the food we eat. Not to mention advocacy for a better way of life.

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'Hands on' Model D partner Mode Shift gets Freep's attention
Source: Detroit Free Press
Core77 blogger hits Detroit, swoons over people and place
Source: Core77
Next step forward for urban ag: soil remediation
Source: HuffPost Detroit
'Motion to Makeover' project transforms Southwest park
Source: HuffPost Detroit
Recovery Park goal includes indoor urban ag, horse stables, neighborhood employment
Source: The Hub
MSU invests $1.5 million in Detroit farming project
Source: HuffPost Detroit
NYT gets a glimpse of Midtown's Green Garage
Source: New York Times
Mode Shift links renderings of expanded D-Cut and Midtown Loop
Source: Mode Shift Move Together
Hamtown Farms to bear rare fruit trees
Source: Detroit Free Press
Freep: Options for Detroit Works includes "green residential"
Source: Detroit Free Press

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