GreenLight Zine’s Release Party Tonight!

GreenLight Zine is hosting the release party for their 6th issue – The Environmental Justice Issue – tonight at Bela Dubby in Lakewood!  GreenLight Zine is an online and printed magazine that aims to educate and empower young people around important environmental issues.

Music at the release party will be provided by the likes of… Letters to the Moon, American War, RandomStereo, Ancestors, Unwelcome Guests, Wisdom Tooth!

Festivities begin at 9pm – see you there!

Structural Racism and Sustainable Solutions in Detroit

Sustainability: social, environmental and economic justice.

This video shows an interview with Carl Anthony, Founder of the Earth House Leadership Center in Detroit, talking about the problems of structural racism in our urban centers.  Anthony also talks about how groups in Detroit are working to abate urban sprawl through an inner city land bank initiative similar to Cleveland’s “Reimagining a More Sustainable Cleveland” initiative and a statewide proposal for a transportation bill limiting the construction of new highways into existing farmland.  Cleveland could use a transportation bill like that.

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