Pete Murdock, Ypsilanti’s longest-serving City Council member, and former mayor, passed away several weeks ago at the age of 76. And, ever since, I’ve been struggling with how to talk about his passing here on the site. You see, while I liked Pete quite a bit as a person, he and I also had some […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Arlo, cancer, Death, Doug Coombe, obituaries, Pete Murdock, Prospect park, recycling, SOS, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Tenants' Union |
A few weeks ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a grant to local bee activist Jamie Berlin to help ensure that Ypsilant’s Festival of the Honey Bee can continue on into the future. Following is my discussion with Jamie about how the festival came about, what we can expect from this year’s event, and […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Environment, Food, Uncategorized | Also tagged apiary, Bee City USA, bees, Bike2Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, food security, honey bees, Jamie Berlin, Karl von Frisch, Lisa Bashert, Meghan Milbrath, pollinators, The Silence of the Bees, Ypsi Melissa |
I think I first met Erica Mooney about four years ago. If I recall correctly, she’d written to me through the blog and asked if I’d meet up with her to talk about Ypsilanti. My sense was that she was talking with a lot of folks around town, trying to figure out how best she […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abundant Michigan Permaculture Ypsilanti, Autobiography of a Yogi, Climate Action Plan, Council: A Senior Passage, dreams, Erica Mooney, food forests, Gaylord, Heather Wysor, Lisa Bashert, Paramahansa Yogananda, permaculture, Pioneer High School, possessions, Scio Township, season extension, simplifying, Song of the Morning, Surthrival, systems thinking, Unity Ride, Water Street Commons, yoga, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews |
Presently there are movements afoot, both in Ann Arbor and in Ypsilanti, to pull products by Eden Foods off the shelves of our respective food co-ops. Following is a conversation with Georgina Hickey, who is leading the charge in Ypsilanti, and Ann Rogers, who is doing the same in Ann Arbor, explaining why, in their […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Ann Rogers, boycotts, Cheryl Farmer, co-ops, contraception, Dan Gillotte, Eden Foods, Georgina Hickey, GMO, Hobby Lobby, Michael Potter, National Organization for Women, NOW, old white men making decisions on women's health, People's Food Co-op, petitions, religious extremism, reproductive justice, soy, soymilk, Supreme Court, Wheatsville, women's health |
I’m not sure what I was expecting when I heard that the Eastern Michigan University office of Campus Life had produced a video about the Ypsi Food Co-op, but I was pleasantly surprised when, after thinking about it for a few days, I finally sat down and watched what they’d come up with… Here it […]
