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The MI-CARES initiative is motivated by the history of toxic environmental exposures and injustice in Michigan such as PBB contamination in the 1970s, lead and Flint’s water crisis, the dioxane plume in Ann Arbor, urban oil refineries and industrial pollution in Detroit, and, more recently, widespread PFAS exposure. Michiganders deserve to know how these exposures are impacting their health.
MI-CARES is a statewide research study based at the University of Michigan that seeks to uncover the impact of environmental exposures on our health. We aim to enroll at least 100,000 Michiganders (ages 25-44) primarily in areas identified as “hotspots” of environmental injustice, as well as throughout the whole state of Michigan. Results from this study will help improve Michiganders’ health and inform policy to reduce environmental injustice and hazardous exposures.
Because your podcast aims to “connect and amplify individuals, communities, and organizations confronting the climate crisis in Michigan” we felt that your listeners would find interest in our work and might feel compelled to learn more. We respect the work of your team and would like to learn more about how you think we could work together in a way that is mutually beneficial.
I look forward to hearing from someone on your team to discuss potential collaborations.
As many of you know, the Huron river was recently poisoned by Tribar company. In late July, plant 5 overrode 460 waste treatment alarms in 3 hours as they dumped 8,000 gallons of 5% hexavalent chromium solution into the river. This toxic carcinogen is now poisoning our drinking water, food, and river ecosystem. Even before this event, Tribar has been routinely dumping toxins such as PFAS, lead, and cyanide into the Huron, thanks to dangerously relaxed waste permits and regulations.
It’s time to call out Tribar for their irresponsibility and absolute disregard of safety. On Friday 23rd, students of the University of Michigan and members of the community will protest together outside of Tribar plant 5. We invite you all to stand with us. The plant is located at 48668 Alpha Drive in Wixom, and there is parking across the street. We will gather on the sidewalk around 12pm so the employees will see us during their lunch break.
If possible, please let us know by the end of this week if you plan to come so we can estimate how many people will be gathered ([email protected]). Even if you cannot participate, please help us by spreading the word. We also encourage you to flood the company with complaints using phone calls, emails, and letters. Here is a document of contact information (https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/XszTIW4QNgqvPpg+LaFAwUy4EUFdGA77FF1j4INHe+U/). Tribar must be held accountable.
-Fight for the Huron campaign
My name is Tristan Brink, I live in Brighton and I’m curious about potential job openings. I graduated from Washtenaw Community College last month with an Associate degree in Environmental Science. I’ve already looked into the Climate Action Network Communications Specialist position on your website, but I lack some of the qualifications. With that being said, I’d still like an opportunity to work for the organization, so I’m wondering if there are other positions in or around Washtenaw/Livingston County?
Thanks and have a great day!
My name is Kirsten and I recently started a local chapter for Fridays For Future in Royal Oak. Fridays For Future is an international, intersectional movement of students striking for climate. I was reaching out to see if there were any high school or college students that would be interested in joining.
For more information: https://fridaysforfutureusa.org/ and @fridaysforfuture.royaloak
Small business owners are particularly heavily struck as inflation rises.
Would it be okay if I write an article for your website about how small businesses can make ends meet while coping with inflation?
My aim is that the information presented will assist small businesses who have already been impacted by the pandemic in surviving these trying times. I’m also hoping that the piece earns a spot on your site.
Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll start working on the piece right away.
Thank you for your consideration.
Alexandra Teeter
[email protected]
Worksowell.com
Small business owners are particularly heavily struck as inflation rises.
Would it be okay if I write an article for your website about how small businesses can make ends meet while coping with inflation?
My aim is that the information presented will assist small businesses who have already been impacted by the pandemic in surviving these trying times. I’m also hoping that the piece earns a spot on your site.
Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll start working on the piece right away.
Thank you for your consideration.
Alexandra Teeter
[email protected]
Worksowell.com
My name is Taryn Indish and I am the student representative for the Northwestern Michigan College Green Team. Here at NMC we have a Campus Sustainability Committee along with a student club. Our mission is to promote environmental advocacy and justice on campus.
It has been a great year full of amazing events including Bioregional Mapping with Author Stephanie Mills, outdoor yoga with local instructor Sarah Townsend, native pollinator garden plantings, growing your own produce, and many volunteering days with local conservation districts. As the NMC Green Team approaches the new school year, we decided to introduce ourselves to our environmentally forward neighbors.
We would love to talk about the potential of joining you for meetings, volunteering, or any events of ours you would be interested in hosting or attending! All of our events are open to the public.
NMC Green team is drafting up the first rough draft of an Environmental Conservation Networking event in partnership with NMC, Michigan Works, and Jobs for Michigan Youth. We are hoping to have this event open to the public and hosted in 2023. We are looking to highlight some local conservation organizations and provide a platform for your voices to be amplified and reach our student body and those interested in getting involved. If this sounds like something you would like to join us for, please let us know! We would love to start the planning process and get a headcount for tables and attendees.
We hope this email reaches you well and I look forward to networking and possibly partnering to share a spotlight on your work as an organization.
Thank you so much for your consideration,
Taryn
I hope you are doing well. I am emailing on behalf of the Michigan High School Democrats with the purpose of recruiting more members. If you know of any high school students within your organization that may be interested in joining us, please give them this link. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out or visit our Instagram (@mihsdems), which has all of our information.
Thank you,
Neil Sachdeva
Development Director
Michigan High School Democrats
If you are interested in this, please let me know and we can discuss further details as needed.
Otherwise, I’m ready to start writing as soon as I hear back from you.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Sincerely,
Holli Richardson
[email protected]
I am so thankful for your work. I hope you have seen me retweeting and sharing your posts. I absolutely love your Good News Fridays.
I am currently the pastor at Pilgrim Congregational UCC in St. Joseph and have been in the southwest Michigan area for about two years. During that time, I have done my level best to advocate for climate policy that radically changes our current path. I presented on climate change at our last Southwest Association meeting this past fall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMxW9A3h58E).
Nationally, I belong to the United Church of Christ Council on Climate Justice. We are currently asking our national church to divest from fossil fuels and have entered into a partnership with Honor the Earth.
I have been asked to see what initiatives with Line 5 might already be happening in Michigan. Being new (coming from Billings, Montana), I do not have the breadth of relationships I hope I might have several years out. So I am wondering if you could help me out with any initiatives or actions (annually or this year) planned for Line 5 resistance. We are seeking to bring our national profile to potential local work around Line 5. Would you be willing to share with me planned or potential actions? And how might I volunteer and make a path for relationship in southwest Michigan? To whom or what organizations should I reach out?
Thanks for any help you can give me. Please feel free to call if that would be easier for you.
Grace and peace,
Rev. Mike Mulberry
My name is Julia Curtis and I am currently a junior at Grand Valley State University, majoring in both Environmental Sustainability Studies and Statistics.
I am looking for either a summer internship, or an internship during this upcoming year, that is related to my majors. I came across your website and fell in love with what you guys do!
If an internship is an option in the near future, please let me know because I would love to join your team.
Thank you for your time,
Julia Curtis
The tree that I was asking for an exception for sits in one of the lowest spots on Millington Road. This area is prone to flooding. I explained to them that having this healthy tree and it’s established root system in place helps keep the ground stable and prevents my driveway was from washing out.
They completely ignored me. Instead stating that had I made the request 6 month ago, that they would have granted it. As this tree falls into the area where they were making exceptions. But now that they have the “plan” in place, that they can’t make an exception for me, because then it would open it up for others to ask for exceptions.
Don’t we have the right as voting, tax paying, homeowners to request exceptions to things such as this? If they failed to notify me and other homeowners of a project that impacts me, shouldn’t they be willing to listen to us now?
I asked them if when my driveway washes out because of their actions if I could bring them the repair bill, they laughed and again dismissed me.
The board was dismissive and arrogant. One member actually said that we needed to hurry along so that they could get to another issue. They simply DO NOT CARE what we as homeowners want or what we think.
I am disturbed by what I witnessed this morning.
I need help stopping the slaughter of these trees that will impact our environment.
John Carl Faust
22140 Averhill Street, Farmington Hills, MI 48336.
Thank you.
I would like to point out the irony of the fact that the first sentence of your letter states “everywhere we look we see the heartbreaking impacts of climate change”, and yet here you are mailing out goodness knows how many letters 99.9% of which probably end up in the land fill. Just a thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBDyAiC4fc
I am a student at Northwestern Michigan College and I am putting together a podcast for a research project for the end of the semester in my freshwater science class. My idea for my project was a podcast including indigenous people or people who work to protect treaty rights and conservation for the tribe. My project objective is to convey why people should care about conservation of water and sustainability. I was also going to add at the end small ways they could change their lifestyle to help improve and move towards restoration of the earth. If you are interested in participating or know anyone who would be interested, please let me know! I am planning on putting together a questionnaire and possibly meeting via zoom to be able to capture your input on this topic.
If you know anyone who would be interested in participating let me know!
Thank you!
—
Taryn Indish (she/her)
Northwestern Michigan College
Freshwater Science and Sustainability
Student, Class of 2025
Phone: (906) 322-7331
Kids are generally a lot smarter (sometimes too smart…) than we think they are. Especially when it comes to leading greener, cleaner lives. They often know more about recycling, or about how eco friendly energy works than we do. It’s great to see.
What are the reasons our kids can be so much better than adults at knowing how to be more eco-conscious?
I’m someone who formerly worked in environmental health and now work as a writer. This subject is one that’s close to my heart, and it’d be great to share some hints and tips with you!
I’d love to write an article for miclimateaction.org on the reasons why kids are better at being eco-conscious than adults. I was looking at https://www.miclimateaction.org/extinction_rebellion_rally_east_lansing while researching an article and it crossed my mind that your audience would welcome a blog post on this idea because we all need to get better at living greener, eco-friendly lives! All I’d ask for in return is a mention of a site I’ve worked on before within the resources.
I’d also be happy to write around any other ideas you had too. Of course, the article will be tailored to your existing content and fully referenced for accuracy.
Can I send a piece over for you to read?
Sincere regards,
Sara
Terminating Line 5 and prohibiting the construction of a replacement will cause the supply chain to move more fuel into the mid-west using tractor-trailers and railroads, which burn fuel. This is not a win for the Michigan Climate Action Network, because consumers will burn the same amount of fuel, while more fuel is going to be used to transport it to points-of-sales. Not only will it net burning more fuel, but this further reduces supply.
The aggressive protest against carbon-based liquid-fuel infrastructure is not the way towards a better future. Consumers struggle to afford new technology as it is, so taking action to further increase fuel prices for consumers through banning construction of fuel infrastructure will be counter-productive.
The railroad company will always have enough money to buy diesel for their trains, and truck drivers will always buy diesel for their trucks. It’s a business expense. Struggling consumers and home-owners who rely on home heating oil (which petroleum companies consider nearly interchangeable and often sell as diesel for off-road use, i.e., rail-road use) will have to compete businesses for oil, people could freeze in their homes if they can’t afford to keep up.
Besides, if they don’t build it in your state, they’ll just build it somewhere else. Michigan Climate Action Network is basically lobbying to increase fuel prices for everybody. Please understand this perspective.
Consumers will move to green technology as they can afford it, and as it becomes more practical.
Could I write an article for your site about the tax advantages of hiring freelancers vs. full-time employees? While this option won’t work for all small businesses, I believe many more small business owners would consider this if they knew how financially advantageous it can be.
What do you think? May I write this for you and send it your way?
Thanks so much.
Vanessa Holwell
hiringsquad.net
I’m a professor in California, and I just finished a very foreboding video entitled “Climate Emergency: It’s dangerously close to being too late to act.”
It is very much of the same mind as Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg, and, indeed, Greta gets the last word.
I hope you have a chance to take a look. Please feel free to use this in any way you wish or, if you might wish to have this delivered live, I would be most honored. I always wanted to visit Traverse City!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtdXT6Qs4yM&t=5s
All the best,
Jerry Kroth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Santa Clara University
University email: [email protected]
Growing strong social networks across the progressive and leftist communities in Michigan is a critical step towards building real, resilient, and lasting political power in our state and across our country.
Join us on October 2nd 2021 to meet progressives from across the state, learn about progressive organizations, enjoy a full program of speakers and entertainment, while growing your knowledge, networks, and communities. We’ll announce the full program once it’s finalized – watch this space:
https://www.facebook.com/events/389580652587163
If you are interested in sponsoring this event or setting up a table at it, please email [email protected]
Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Rebecca Terpening
MI Solidarity Organizer
Earth Gives is an environmental nonprofit startup creating a new digital space for environmental and climate-focused nonprofits—to help them network with one another, with donors, sponsors, initiate fundraising, really to help move the needle nationally on environmental philanthropy.
Right now, we’re registering several environmental nonprofits to participate in our inaugural giving day on October 7, 2021. We’re excited to share this opportunity with you! Registration for the giving day runs through Sept. 3, but the platform will exist as a permanent resource to help organizations supercharge their fundraising efforts.
I’ll specify, because I’m often asked: this is not a monetary ask and there are no ongoing fees, just a small one-time registration fee to help cover our backend costs. We’re really trying to be the water that lifts all ships in this space.
If you have any questions at all, feel free to give me a call. I encourage you to visit our website EarthGives.org for more information.
Thanks and have a great weekend,
David
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