Insider • 20th October 2020 5 major health benefits of cycling and how to bike safely The benefits of cycling include boosting cardiovascular fitness, helping with weight loss, improving balance and coordination, strengthening joints, and enhancing mental health.
Women's Running • 12th October 2020 Native Women Running Uplifts Indigenous Runners Verna Volker remembers being in a bookstore a couple of years ago, leafing through a running magazine and a trail running magazine. Every woman pictured looked similar—white, thin, often blond, and with flawless skin, Volker says. Scrolling through the running community on Instagram, she saw the same thing.
Women's Running • 6th October 2020 The Newly Formed Running Industry Diversity Coalition Has Big Plans The running community says it’s welcoming to everybody: All you need is a pair of shoes. Anybody can join us. And runners are diverse in many ways. But some groups are still underrepresented at the starting line, in running clubs, in the media, and in the running industry. And not everybody feels welcome.
Global Sport Matters • 24th September 2020 College Athletes Unite Around #BlackLivesMatter As the Black Lives Matter movement has grown in recent years, many pro athletes have been using their platform to support it, but college athletes have been less visible. Now, they are speaking out and refusing to “shut up and dribble”— ushering in a new era of student-athlete activists.
Crain's Detroit Business • 6th September 2020 40 Under 40 I wrote eight of these profiles: Beth McKenney, Brent Ott, Chantá Parker, Jonathan Quarles, Eric Van Dam, Leslie Walton, S. Eliot Weiner, Deirdre Young
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Healthcare: A Speedier Response for Stroke Patients Through its Get Ahead of Stroke campaign, SNIS hopes to save lives and reduce disability by ensuring stroke patients are taken to the right hospital for treatment.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Sustainability: Landscape Architects Take Steps Toward Carbon-Neutral Communities You might not expect to find landscape architects in the army of professionals fighting climate change. But they are.
Associations Now • 12th August 2020 Coronavirus Response: Relief for Struggling Restaurant Workers With more than 8 million restaurant workers laid off since the beginning of coronavirus, NRAEF created the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund and distributed one-time $500 payments to those in need.
Global Sport Matters • 22nd July 2020 In the return to youth sports, an opportunity to improve access 2020 has been a difficult time to be a kid. When schools and nearly all other nonessential activities in the U.S. shut down in the spring to slow the spread of COVID-19, many kids’ worlds shrunk to the four walls of their homes.
Planet Detroit • 14th July 2020 Detroiters Do Science: What we found (so far) in our urban neighborhoods Since the Detroiters Do Science project began in May, citizen scientists across Metro Detroit have recorded nearly 2500 observations (and counting!) through the iNaturalist app as part of our Nature in Your Neighborhood project.
Crain's Detroit Business • 28th June 2020 How to keep your company's diversity and inclusion efforts from fizzling out As national conversations about racism and equity continue, companies are looking inward and taking action. But are your diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts at risk of fizzling out?
Crain's Detroit Business • 14th June 2020 You sent a #BlackLivesMatter statement. What's next? How your company can address racism Since George Floyd's death and the protests that have followed, companies have responded in different ways. Some issued statements to the public and to their employees....But beyond such statements, what can organizations do to address these issues — which might include systemic racism in their own space?
Planet Detroit • 11th June 2020 Why biodiversity matters in urban areas like Detroit A church garden in Detroit might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of biodiversity, but each individual plant, bird and insect that inhabits the space is doing its part.
U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 28th May 2020 Sowing doubt and undermining science Science should be able to speak for itself. But people with a vested interest in undermining science are working behind the scenes to obscure it.
Women's Running • 21st April 2020 How Running Companies Are Entering the Fight Against COVID-19 Normally, New Balance’s factories are humming along, making running shoes and other athletic wear. But they ground to a halt, along with nearly everything else deemed nonessential, when the dangers of COVID-19 became clear.
Associations Now • 20th April 2020 Attention On Retention: Strategies for Boosting Employee Retention in a Tough Time A changing workforce requires a new approach to employee retention if organizations want to keep their top talent in a business climate facing new uncertainties.
Crain's Detroit Business • 12th April 2020 Room to improve: Women making strides in skilled trades, but there are more gains to be made Although women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, they are significantly underrepresented in the skilled trades. Women are there, across a wide range of trades, but their numbers are low.
Crain's Detroit Business • 12th April 2020 Building Cooperatively: Building a more inclusive workplace culture Building Cooperatively is a co-op in Detroit that focuses on historic restoration and investing in the community.
Model D • 17th March 2020 High water: Metro Detroit communities prepare for record-high water levels this spring In an average year, Michigan gets about 31.5 inches of rain. But 2019 wasn’t an average year — more than 41.5 inches came down and wreaked havoc across the state.
U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 11th March 2020 The Detroit water crisis and unexpected coalitions Since 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has shut off the water to 141,000 households whose bills were past due. Last year, more than 23,000 households reportedly had their water shut off.
