Traverse City/Petoskey – Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities is pleased to announce it has received a multi-year grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to expand the resilience and scale of the local food economy in western Michigan. For more...
What if, in our nation, there was no fossil fuel soot? (Hang onto that thought.) “Soot.” So blunt and primitive, the word is just right for the dark, greasy and pernicious thing it represents. The word time-travels us back to the dawn of the industrial age and...
Above: Michigan State House Representative Betsy Coffia, during a visit to the Groundwork office. Groundwork staff welcomed newly elected State House Representative Betsy Coffia to our office the other day for a two-way conversation about legislative priorities. Below...
For kids, creativity rules the world. As a FoodCorps Food Education Service Member, I’ve witnessed students rely on creativity for every lesson we do—whether it’s engineering solutions to garden problems, brainstorming scenarios in a play about apples, or making weird...
Dramatic progress in our nation has always sprung from the same well: our people and our communities. Always. We see that today in the push for a clean energy transition. Despite endless obstructionism at the state and federal levels, our families and our communities...
[Friends, we are sharing here the press release we sent about this important moment in the Line 5 oil tunnel permitting case. Your support makes work like this possible. Thank you.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Allowing...