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Create a better michigan!Together, let's build local-based solutions for environment, economy, and community.
Groundwork Center Programs Help You
Create a better michigan!Together, let's build local-based solutions for environment, economy, and community.
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Little Traverse Bay Bands created Ziibimijwang Farm in large part to help achieve food sovereignty and expand the use of traditional foods. “You can’t call yourself sovereign unless you grow your own food,” says Joe Van Alstine, a former chair of Ziibimijwang's board.
Rosebud is currently Co-Director, Education and Engagement for Keep Growing Detroit. She is an enrolled Citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, recognized descendant of the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewas and Eastern Shawnee Tribe of OK and Purepecha peoples.
Groundwork has partnered with LTBB in areas of food access and food education.
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE. We think you believe that too.
LET'S MAKE REAL CHANGE
We Understand
It is frustrating to want the best for our Michigan but not have the time, skill set, and team to make the change you see we need.
We Have Solutions
People like you have allowed Groundwork to design and implement local-based solutions that have tackled big problems and strengthened our environment, our economy, and our communities for 25 years.
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"We are so fortunate to have such a resourceful, competent, and impactful advocate for positive change in Northern Michigan."
— Skip Pruss, former director of the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth
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Our Better World
Justin Snowden Talks Micro-Mobility in the Motor City
Detroit got us off the sidewalks and into our cars. Now urban planners see the need to reverse that scenario: get people on bikes, e-scooters and on their feet, for the health of our people and our community cohesion. Justin Snowden, chief of Mobility Strategy, City of Detroit shares insight.
Working for Environmental Justice in Oakland County, Michigan
Oakland County was once the power zone of Michigan’s conservative movement. That’s shifted in recent years to a more balanced demographic, and now activists are hoping a call for environmental justice and the transition to clean energy will resonate here. Our two podcast guests are working hard to make it so.
Successfully Siting Renewable Energy in Michigan: a Conversation With Dr. Sarah Mills
More than 30 square miles of land will be needed to site the 6,000 megawatts of solar panels already proposed for Michigan. Where will it go? Siting is central to the success of our transition to clean energy, and Dr. Sarah Mills has made this the focus of her research. She shares tremendous insight on this Speaking of Resilience podcast.
