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.

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.

More than half of employees leave a job because of a manager. How can your organization avoid that trap?

Building Cooperatively is a co-op in Detroit that focuses on historic restoration and investing in the community.

Adrienne Bennett has been in the plumbing industry for more than 40 years. In 1976, a man who was recruiting for a plumbing apprenticeship walked up to her "and said I looked like a woman who could get something done," she said.

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.

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.

The term “environmental justice” still may be unfamiliar to some people, but you don’t have to be familiar with it to understand what it means when you see it. With the Flint water crisis and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the people who were hit hardest were poor and black.

Abir Ali describes herself as a city builder. Her career has included architecture, philanthropy, design and real estate—with specialized positions across disciplines.

Talk of how automation and artificial intelligence would change the workforce once conjured images of robots taking our jobs. But so far, the robots have not replaced humans on the factory floor — or the cubicle row.

Automation and AI will change the nature of work, said Automation Alley CEO and Executive Director Tom Kelly. "You may not have a person in every truck driving on the highway, but you're still going to need all kinds of people in logistics," he said.

It may be frigid outside, but plenty of Metro Detroiters are still getting out on their local trails frequently. What they may not know is that some trails stretch all the way across the state.

In the past, a girl who wanted to wrestle or play ice hockey would have had to join a boys’ team. Now, more girls and women are getting their own teams, and interest is growing among girls and women in sports that once were almost exclusively for boys and men.

The benefits kids reap from nature are well documented, which is part of the reason school field trips often involve excursions into the Great Outdoors. Children with disabilities, however, sometimes get left behind.

What does sustainability look like in Detroit, a city that is going through changes that some consider a renaissance? The Erb Institute talked with five people who are working to make Detroit more sustainable—in wildly divergent ways, from bees, to dirt, to real estate development, to stormwater.

At the Chicago Marathon..., Cheseto ran the world’s fastest known time for a double lower-limb amputee. Wearing running prostheses, he covered the 26.2 miles in 2:37:23, surpassing his own previous best of 2:42:24, which he ran at the Boston Marathon in April.

Seven amputees who found themselves atop a 19,347-foot volcano in Ecuador last month probably never envisioned themselves there together.

Some benefits of yoga – such as improved flexibility and balance — are well known. So it makes sense for athletes to take advantage of yoga disciplines. But athletes across a range of sports use yoga to improve their performance in ways that may be less obvious.

Detroit Dirt makes waste into a commodity. It takes food waste, green waste, spent grains and herbivore manure and uses an aerobic process to make it into high-quality compost.