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Ecology Environment Parks & Rec Parks and Public Space

Nat M. Zorach May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 0 Comments bike rides, bikes, bplant, butterflies, city of detroit parks, climate, climate change, dequindre cut, Detroit, detroit greenways coalition, detroit parks, detroit riverfront conservancy, duggan, gas-powered lawn equipment, jefferson chalmers, joe louis greenway, justin fenwick, lawnmower, michigan, mike duggan, mowing, native landscaping, native plants, native wildflowers, native wildgrasses, no-mow may, parks & rec, pollinator habitat, pollinators, rain garden, rain gardens, rukiya colvin, southwest detroit

Wishes For A Greener Spring

The advent of warm weather! The return of street fairs! The sniffles from spring allergies! And ever so much more.

Ecology Streetscaping Transit infrastructure

Nat M. Zorach July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 0 Comments albedo, bioretention, bioswale, black locust, buffer, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, detroit flooding, detroit street grid, flooding, floodwater, floodwaters, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, hardscaping, impervious, mdot, MDOT engineers, pervious, rain, rainwater, rainwater detention, rainwater retention, resilient, resilient infrastructure, riparian buffer, road engineering, safe streets, shade trees, storms, street grid, street grids, street trees, streets, traffic calming, urban heat island, vision zero, water infiltration, water treatment, weather, woonerf

Greener Streets, Safer Streets: Less Flooding Through Better Transportation Infrastructure

In the aftermath of a catastrophic flooding event a few weeks ago, Detroiters cleaned out their basements of water-damaged and

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Climate Ecology

Nat M. Zorach June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate change, combined sewer, combined sewer overflow, detroit flooding, detroit water and sewerage department, drainage tax, duggan administration, dwsd, flood, flood insurance, floods, gary brown, gary brown is a cop, glwa, green infrastructure, green new deal, green stormwater infrastructure, infrastructure hardening, insurance, june 2021 storms, market solutions, rain tax, sewage, sewer, sewers, stormwater, stormwater infrastructure, stormwater management, stormwater retention

If Not Now, When? Detroit Flooding Raises Questions.

Widespread flooding across Metro Detroit has left basements filled with water, backed up sewage, and has left homeowners with questions about what the state and city have been doing, if not preparing our infrastructure for climate change.

Ecology Utilities

Nat M. Zorach June 18, 2021June 17, 2021 0 Comments amphibians, animals, bees, carbon, carbon footprint, carbon sequestration, Consumers Energy, creatures, DTE, DTE Energy, ecological restoration, ecology, endangered species, friendly amphibians, friends, GHG, ghg mitigation, greenhouse gas emissions, herp gang, herp squad, herpetology, nature, pipeline, pipelines, pollinators, prairie, prairie grasses, saginaw pipeline, stranded assets, testudine, turtles, wetland restoration, wetlands

Consumers Energy: Bests DTE And Even Saves Endangered Turtles

Endangered turtles return to restored wetlands along a new fossil gas pipeline that cuts through mid-Michigan.

Ecology Environment Infrastructure

Vishva Nalamalapu January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 0 Comments clallam county, coast salish, dam removal, elwha, elwha river, elwha river dam, glines canyon, glines canyon dam, jefferson county, lake aldwell, lake mills, lower elwha klallam tribe, olympic peninsula, pacific northwest, salish sea, strait of juan de fuca, washington, washington state

Rivers and Roads (and the World’s Largest Dam Removal)

In the Olympic Peninsula, dam removals on the Elwha River and resulting road washouts lead us to question the compatibility of changing ecosystems and unchanging infrastructure.

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