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Water Action Wednesday: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

May 29, 2024 | By Uzoma Adichie and Jennifer Schlicht

Learn where we’ve been and where we are today. Take #WaterActionWednesday time today to read more about the history, leadership, and present day organizing by Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in the Environmental Justice movement.

Sowing Seeds for Spring: An Earth Day Reflection

April 22, 2024 | By Nichole Keway Biber

On Earth Day and as the traditional nursery rhyme about April showers and May flowers perhaps come to mind, there is an invitation to greet this time of year with a sense of hope for renewal.

Backyard garden with decorative sign "Planting A Seed Is Believing In Tomorrow"

Jennifer Schlicht

Indigenous women protest next to the Straits of Mackinac and Line 5

Line 5 Propaganda Is Everywhere - But So Are We. Fact Checking Enbridge:

December 2, 2023 | By Nichole Keway Biber

Everyday the Canadian corporate behemoth Enbridge pushes Line 5 oil across 645 miles of Michigan lands, crossing numerous waterways including underneath the heart of the Great Lakes at the Straits of Mackinac, is another day of potential catastrophe.

Knowledge Is Power: Community Power in Southeast Michigan

October 31, 2023 | By Jackson Koeppel

The Public Power Project travelled across the Midwest where communities are maintaining their own energy grids, learning the sometimes complicated world of power generation, or fighting for local control over the flow of resources and capital in their communities.