Foundation staff joined more than 20 volunteers to plant a rain garden at the Urban Country Tea House in Detroit’s Brightmoor neighborhood on September 9. A joint program of the Sierra Club, Friends of The Rouge and Keep Growing Detroit, Rain Gardens To The Rescue helps Detroiters design, plant and maintain rain gardens to manage...
Video by Sam Wolson Photography + Media. This collaboration of Keep Growing Detroit, Sierra Club and Friends of The Rouge educates and enables residents to build rain gardens, water catchment systems and healthy soils to help manage stormwater and conserve water. In the first two years of this three-year program, residents have planted 28 rain gardens...
Video by University of Michigan News. A University of Michigan Water Center research team collaborated with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD), the Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA), and Cody Rouge and Warrendale neighborhood organizations to create an innovative form of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) for vacant properties in Detroit. Highly engineered bioretention gardens featuring...
The Southwest Solutions/Detroit Farm & Garden project demonstrates how an old vacant building can be re-purposed to include a sustainable (triple bottom line) business, with a special focus on cost-effective storm water mitigation techniques including a green roof and green parking lot. Ideally, these techniques will eventually qualify for a potential green credit program being...
Video by Sam Wolson Photography + Media. The Foundation is supporting RecoveryPark to demonstrate how the city’s first large-scale commercial farming operation can model ecological stewardship and ecological restoration as well as socially equitable and economically beneficial employment practices. The project complements another Erb grant – the Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Project –...
