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  • Detroit Zoo leads coalition to connect habitat restoration efforts across the city

    Tom Perkins

    January 18, 2023 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Organizations like the Detroit Audubon’s Bird City habitat restoration initiative are planting native flowers, grasses, and trees in vacant, underused lots and parks to restore the habitat for wildlife in the city.

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  • Michigan group helping to keep justice on the state's environmental agenda

    Tom Perkins

    January 29, 2021 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    The Michigan Advisory Council on Environmental Justice was created to advise Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on environmental justice issues related to pollution and energy access. In its first year, the 21-member council was influential in moratoriums on water shut-offs and provided input on the state’s latest climate plan. Some members would like the council to have “more teeth” in policy decisions, but other say they are poised to take up more issues, like injustices related to electric utilities, in their second year.

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  • Michigan's weakened environmental laws lead activists to embrace other tactics

    Tom Perkins

    December 10, 2020 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Environmental deregulation and budget cuts opened the door for a loose coalition of environmental attorneys and activists to do the accountability work for the regulatory system. The groups sue to force companies to follow the law, contest permits, and run media campaigns to raise awareness of corporate misdeeds. Their efforts have been effective, forcing the closure of a toxic incinerator, pushing utilities towards clean energy, and revealing environmental abuses of major companies. The groups work with residents in impacted communities to determine priorities and organize support among neighbors.

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  • How a Group of Political Novices Ended Gerrymandering in Michigan

    Tom Perkins

    April 24, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Voters Not Politicians (VPN) is a grassroots initiative that, with the help over 4,000 volunteers who knocked on 125,000 doors and canvassed at public events, collected the 400,000 signatures needed to get an anti-gerrymandering initiative on the statewide ballot. The initiative passed with 61% of the vote in 2018 and requires district boundaries be drawn by average citizens. The group’s founder also started The People, another group to help residents in other states apply VPNs model to stop gerrymandering. So far, residents in Florida, Virginia, and New Hampshire are at various stages of applying the model.

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