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If you care about true energy independence, solar is the way forward

If you care about true energy independence, solar is the way forward

by Nicholas Jansen | Apr 8, 2025 | Clean Energy, Rural Clean Energy, Solar on Schools

This op-ed first published in  Independence and freedom are bedrock principles of the United States. But for too long, we’ve relied on fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal under the belief that they provide the independence we, as Americans, value. However, we’ve...

How passenger rail helped these two southern towns

How passenger rail helped these two southern towns

by Michael Goldman Brown Jr | Apr 7, 2025 | North+South Passenger Rail, Transportation & Community Design

Passenger rail provides residents of smaller communities around the country with a vital connection to neighboring municipalities, major metropolitan areas, and the nation as a whole. In this series’ introduction, we took a general look at how residents and their...

Remembering our courageous and loving colleague Holly T. Bird

Remembering our courageous and loving colleague Holly T. Bird

by Elizabeth Palchak | Apr 5, 2025 | Clean Energy, Equity

We at Groundwork are heartbroken to share that our dear colleague, Holly T. Bird, has walked on. In the Anishinaabe way, when someone begins their journey to the spirit world, -ba is added to their name as a way to honor that passage. From this point forward, she will...

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Rosebud Schneider is a former manager of Ziibimijwang Farm, owned by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and located near the Mackinac Straits.

Little Traverse Bay Bands created Ziibimijwang Farm in large part to help achieve food sovereignty and expand the use of traditional foods. “You can’t call yourself sovereign unless you grow your own food,” says Joe Van Alstine, a former chair of Ziibimijwang's board.

Rosebud is currently Co-Director, Education and Engagement for Keep Growing Detroit. She is an enrolled Citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, recognized descendant of the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewas and Eastern Shawnee Tribe of OK and Purepecha peoples.

Groundwork has partnered with LTBB in areas of food access and food education.

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