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A Cloud of Unknowing: Madison Square and the Nature of Environmental Justice

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:October 1, 2019
  • Post category:WMEAC
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By Dan Christmann Problems in the Neighborhood On the morning of Friday May 20th, 2016, residents of Grand Rapids’ Madison Square  woke to a cavalcade of government vehicles and yellow…

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LGROW launches Adopt-A-Drain system

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:September 12, 2019
  • Post category:Watershed/Watershed Education/WMEAC News
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By Dan Christmann Winter last year (2018-19 for those of you browsing through the archive) was manic depressive. Michigan's weather is always unpredictable, but this was on a different level.…

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This Precarious Space Together: A Conversation with Jessica Stokes

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:August 15, 2019
  • Post category:About/IDEAL
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By Dan Christmann Jessica Stokes is a disability activist, performance artist, and scholar currently working on her Ph.D. at MSU. She’s also one of my favorite people in the whole…

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Biodigestion and the Greening of West Michigan

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:August 8, 2019
  • Post category:WMEAC
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By Dan Christmann Building a Better Bowels “I call this a big stomach. Ok?” Charles Schroeder tells me frankly, leaning back in one of the tall chairs that surround the…

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WMEAC Summer Camps: Science, Community, and Meatloaf

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:August 1, 2019
  • Post category:Education/Events/Watershed/Watershed Education/WMEAC
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By Dan Christmann   “No, that’s cottonwood, not cotton candy," Emma, one of WMEAC’s education interns, says leaning over a student checking his tree identification worksheet against an answer key.…

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Preventing Food Waste in Grocery Stores

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:July 26, 2019
  • Post category:Education/Recycling/WMEAC
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By Dan Christmann  “You gonna throw that all away?” A bystander asks as I exit the back entrance of the store with a cart full of rotten produce. I shrug…

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WMEAC and Brewery Vivant Collaborate on Bourbon Rain Barrel Workshop

  • Post author:Dan.W.Christmann
  • Post published:July 11, 2019
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By Dan Christmann It makes sense that WMEAC would hold rain barrel workshops. Water quality is of huge importance to us, and rain barrels are one way to protect the…

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