Mahindra Automotive North America (MANA) has awarded $127,000 in funding and equipment from its Urban Agriculture Grant Program to eight southeast Michigan nonprofits in Detroit. This year’s recipients and the programs the grants will support, including five that received Mahindra funding previously, are: American Indian Health and Family Services, Inc. ($10,000): To create the Sacred […]
Going green has been a benefit to Detroit youth for the past 20 years, but not only because of improvements to the environment. The Greening of Detroit celebrated two decades of employing local youth in the community July 25, announcing that 2,000 boys and girls have worked in the Green Corps since 1998, earning a […]
Long before smokestacks from Detroit’s factories became part of the city’s landscape, it was lush with plants and trees. The city was so fertile the French, who settled on the city’s east side and developed ribbon farms, didn’t have to do much to cultivate the land. Now many of the factories have shuttered their doors […]