In spring 2015, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization worked alongside the Sierra Club and Detroit People’s Platform on the Great Lakes Water Authority’s (GLWA) development of a new Water Residential Assistance Program (WRAP). Through this new…
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We have just learned from our friends at the Sierra Club-Detroit Chapter that the Low-Income Energy Efficiency Fund (LIEEF), a fund distributed across the state to help low-income people prevent heat shut offs, is in…
The Michigan Sierra Club is convening a Detroit-based coalition to form a People’s Water Board. The People’s Water Board Mission is: Water is life. The People’s Water Board advocates for access, protection, and conservation of…
(Reposted from Great Lakes Town Hall) By Melissa Damaschke, Sierra Club (Detroit, MI); and Maureen Taylor, MWRO (Detroit, MI) The Great Lakes currently provide drinking water to over 42 million people. Yet not everyone in…