National Geographic • 22nd May 2025

Iffy about camping? Here's what a guided camping trip can offer.

“Our family loves the outdoors. We just don’t like sleeping in it.” This is what I heard my 11-year-old daughter telling another girl on our camping trip, who had asked where else we’d been camping. The answer: Nowhere.

Extended Weekend Getaways • 13th May 2025

Hiking lesser-known parks

While people flock to Taos and Santa Fe for skiing and other attractions, the national and state parks in southern New Mexico are a lesser-known alternative for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.

Second Wave Michigan • 31st January 2025

Collaboration gets Dearborn air quality data to people who need it

“Air quality, even just down the street, can be very different from your front door. Having these sensors at a hyper-local level can really give you a better picture of what's going on,” says Nick Thomas, director of MiNextCities at NextEnergy.

Lonely Planet • 4th October 2024

Epic Runs of North America

I wrote two pieces in this Lonely Planet book: White Sands National Park and The Detroit Riverwalk

National Wildlife • 29th September 2024

Maintaining a Sandhill Crane Oasis in the Desert

In a New Mexico desert transformed by human activity, wildlife managers create the seasonal wetlands that sandhill cranes rely on each fall and winter.

Audubon • 3rd September 2024

This Runner Is Completing a 100-Mile Ultramarathon in Every State—For Owls

Ten years ago, Pete Ripmaster was running through the frozen Alaska woods in the middle of the night, lost and alone.

National Geographic • 14th December 2023

One unexpected way to reduce violent crime? Create green spaces.

Darnell Ishmel’s street in Flint, Michigan, used to be lined with waist-high grass on vacant lots. The blight felt overwhelming, “to the point where I [didn’t] even want to walk outside,” he says.

The Seattle Times • 27th October 2023

A runner finds a sense of belonging on an Alaskan retreat for people of color

I’M RUNNING THROUGH the woods in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula with about a dozen other people. The air is cool, and the trees’ leaves are shiny and wet from the morning’s rain.

Planet Detroit • 11th September 2023

House bills aim to protect Michigan’s pollinators – Planet Detroit

Two bills introduced in the Michigan House are intended to save pollinators—and, by extension, help protect Michigan’s crops and biodiversity.

Outside Online • 7th September 2023

Alison Mariella Désir Leads BIPOC-Only Running Retreat in Alaska

Ever since she founded Harlem Run in 2013, Alison Mariella Désir has been building community in the world of running—and uplifting people who are underrepresented in it. In August, she led a running retreat exclusively for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Alaska.

U-M Erb - • 7th April 2023

It’s time for the end of the fossil-fuel industry as we know it

With climate change, “we are confronted with an existential crisis that requires radical action if we are to respond with adequate scope and scale,” Andrew J. Hoffman and Douglas M. Ely argue.

U-M Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability • 31st March 2023

Justice should be an action, not only a core value

The Erb Institute recently convened the workshop “Building Connections for Business, Sustainability & Justice Research,” bringing together scholars, corporate leaders and advocates to explore how research can inform solutions to pressing environmental, social and racial justice challenges.

Hidden Compass • 7th February 2023

Beyond the Waves

Sitara Siverls is sitting at the bedside of a bald Caucasian man in a dimly lit intensive care unit (ICU) room, holding his hand. Outside in the hall, doctors and nurses move briskly.

Sustain.Life • 18th January 2023

Is there a problem with carbon removal technology?

Carbon removal stories have become part of both climate and mainstream news—companies including Shopify, Stripe, Google, and Facebook are notable investors in new carbon removal technology. On the surface, carbon removal tech seems like it could be a magic wand for all our climate problems, but the reality is more complicated.

Belt Magazine - Dispatches From the Rust Belt and Greater Midwest • 30th November 2022

An Auto Plant Becomes a State Park

Major investments in parks and green spaces in both Flint and Detroit are revitalizing former industrial sites and vacant lots, and helping both cities to recover from decades of economic decline.

Well+Good • 14th November 2022

These Running Shoes Are Made From Captured Carbon Emissions

Running shoes are typically pretty terrible for the environment. But On Running is working to reverse this trend. The brand recently developed the first shoe made from carbon emissions—basically turning industrial pollution into foam for running shoes.

Model D • 13th October 2022

Closing Michigan's 'adventure gap': Floating classroom gets hundreds of students out on the water

It’s a sunny October afternoon on Belle Isle, and about 80 middle school and high school students are getting ready to go canoeing. Only a few of them have been in a canoe before, and most haven’t been in any kind of boat.

Planet Detroit • 8th October 2022

WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE?

Environmental problems become environmental justice issues based on how they harm people. Often, certain already disadvantaged communities face disproportionate harm from things like air pollution and water pollution.

Audubon • 19th September 2022

These Native Meadows in Motown Aim to Boost Birdlife and Neighbors’ Well-Being

A few years ago, Detroit’s Callahan Park was indistinguishable from an abandoned lot, its overgrown turf grass strewn with litter. While the city has been in economic recovery mode since its 2013 bankruptcy, some areas have rebounded more than others, and many of its more than 300 parks look much like Callahan once did.

SEEN Magazine • 1st August 2022

A Buzz-Worthy Mission: Beekeeping Organizations in Metro Detroit

People depend on pollinators. Beyond producing honey, bees are essential to our ecosystem — including the food we eat.