Speaking of Resilience

Community Solar Bill Speeds Renewables, Boosts Local Economies

When we think about energy infrastructure, we tend to think in extremes: either gigantic utility scale installations that cover hundreds of acres or micro installations t

Climate Impacts of Line 5 Oil Pipeline Tunnel

Unflagging persistence and sharp legal insight enabled the attorneys at Environmental Law & Policy Center to convince the Michigan Public Service Commission that climate

Michigan and the Build Back Better Legislation

With votes expected this month on two historically huge spending bills moving through Congress—one focused on broad infrastructure and the other focused on climate action

Driving a Just Energy Transition in Detroit

Bryan Lewis settled into the executive director position at Detroit’s EcoWorks environmental nonprofit in October 2020, taking the helm of a 40-year-old organization that

Warning, hope, action—Insight for the 2021 IPCC report

Code red. It’s nearly unheard of for scientists to use such startling language, but the latest report on global warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change s

Health Impacts of Global Warming

Reducing carbon emissions has been the passionate focus of climate change activists, and understandably so. But as Dr. Elizabeth Del Buono, MD and cofounder of Michigan C

What Future-Energy Looks Like in the U.P.

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula offers a fascinating microcosm for assessing the challenges and opportunities of a clean energy transformation. On the one hand, the U.P. seems

The Challenge of Our Lives

Though just graduating high school this year, Naina Agrawal-Hardin has already become one of Michigan's leading young voices in the push for a just transition to a clean

Michigan Legislative Roundtable

Governor Whitmer has made a bold pledge to bring Michigan’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, but state legislation would add tremendous momentum and authority to hel

Michigan Leading on Climate

“Laboratories of democracy”—that’s how, back in 1932, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis described the states, and that same idea extends to clean energy progress

The Pillars of Biden’s Clean Energy & Jobs Plan, Kelly Speakes-Backman

Listen in as Kelly Speakes-Backman, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy and the most empowered clean energy field general the nation has ever seen, shares thoughts on th

Building a Movement: Featuring Young Leaders

In the climate change discussion, one fact is irrefutable: Of all the people on the planet today, our young people will bear the greatest burden of global warming during

Climate Action: What Can We Expect from Congress?

In the recent Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit, co-hosted by Michigan Climate Action Network and Groundwork, we invited Michigan’s U.S. Senators Peters and Stabenow

2021 Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit Promo

Today we have a special episode to talk about the Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit coming up on May 24-27. This year we have decided to combine two successful event

Nancy Wang-How They Beat Gerrymandering in Michigan

Our guest today is Nancy Wang, executive director and a founding member of Voters Not Politicians, the organization that led the successful ballot initiative to end gerry

Esosa Aimufua-Why Global Warming Matters for Line 5 Permitting

Enbridge is trying to keep climate impacts from being considered as the State reviews their proposed oil tunnel. Esosa is one of the attorneys leading the fight to get th

LaUra Schmidt: Turning Climate Grief and Eco-Anxiety Into Meaningful Action

This episode of Speaking of Resilience features LaUra Schmidt, co-founder of the Good Grief Network, a nonprofit organization that creates community space to process the

Jim MacInnes: Michigan's Changing Winters

We invite Jim MacInnes, CEO of Crystal Mountain Resort, in Benzie County, Michigan, to discuss the impact of warmer winters on the people, culture and business of Michiga

Douglas Jester: A Carbon Neutral Michigan—What It Will Really Take

On September 24, Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer took executive action that, among other things, sets a goal for Michigan to be carbon neutral by 2050 and cuts clima

Gillian Giem: Rapidly Reducing Buildings' Carbon Footprint

This episode of the Speaking of Resilience Podcast was recorded right before Governor Whitmer announced and signed her climate executive directive, which sets a goal for