Detroit
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Renewable energy standards: less effective, more costly, but politically preferred to cap-and-trade?
It is ironic that while cap-and-trade is dead in the Senate, support has emerged for an approach that would be both less effective and more costly.
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Detroit, community resilience, and the American dream
Within our lifetimes, many of us will have to pioneer a new meaning of what "the good life" really is. People in Detroit are leading the way.
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Family-friendly Detroit. Yes, you heard that right
It's safe to say that Detroit hasn't topped any recent "best places to raise a family" lists. And yet there are a surprising number of people who are choosing to raise their children there. Some are transplants, some are visionaries, and many are fiercely loyal natives.
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Food justice: It's not black and white in Detroit
I recently spent two weeks in Detroit, working at Brother Nature Produce farm and watching how the city’s food-justice groups handle race and privilege.
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Getting past "ruin porn" in Detroit [VIDEO]
A series of short films shows Detroit not as a shell of the past, but as an incubator of the future.
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Three projects that are watering Detroit's ‘food desert'
Food has emerged as the key motivating force of Detroiters' efforts to re-imagine their town as a thriving, livable place. Here are three representatives of the spirit driving the 21st-century version of the Motor City.
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Smart cities are (un)paving the way for urban farmers and locavores
Across the U.S., cities are buckling up their green belts and introducing legislation to foster local-food production of everything from cucumbers to yellow limes, reports Kerry Trueman for Grist's Feeding the City series. Because nobody wants to get caught with their pantry down?
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From Motown to Growtown: The greening of Detroit
Where factories once flourished, hope sprouts in Detroit's urban gardens and farms, and projects like Greening Detroit.
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Urban farms around America are breaking through concrete and hitting sustainable paydirt [SLIDESHOW]
From mid-May through July, Grist readers followed along as the Breaking through Concrete guys hit the highway to visit a couple dozen urban farms across America. Here, they sum up their trip and share some of Michael Hanson's most indelible images from it for Grist's special series, Feeding the City.