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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

Eastern Market: Leading the devolution revolution

Establishing a sustainable and vibrant market for local food is a challenging mix of production, distribution, community engagement and entrepreneurship. Dennis Archambault wanders Detroit's Eastern Market and finds it expanding into a regional food hub, and much more.

Green City Diaries: Consume, compost, recycle, repeat

Avalon International Breads is great at organizing its Earth-friendly values. But if the owners did it over again they would be more strategic in setting up waste reduction goals. Matthew Piper reports on how improving sustainability practices leads to, you guessed it, better business practices.  

Publisher's notebook: Detroit, celluloid city

Lights, camera and plenty of film and video action has publisher Claire Nelson going to screenings at museums and alternative retail spaces or finding the works on YouTube and Vimeo. Good thing for us she collected all the links and put them in this story. Enjoy the show. 

City kids: The greenhouse effect

Connections are being made in Detroit classrooms between the science curriculum, growing and eating good foods, creating better nutritional habits that lead to healthier lifestyles. Melinda Clynes puts her garden gloves on for this report. 

Model D TV: Inspiration for business, one idea at a time

Our cameras were rolling as the ideas continued flowing at last Friday's Idealab in Ann Arbor. Tom Hendrickson captured the presenters on stage and tracked them down backstage for this episode of Model D TV.
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