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Thousands of Michigan children are lead poisoned each year and nothing is done about it… because no one even knows it’s happening.

We are asking you to speak out in support of the strongest recommendations made by the Council of Climate Solutions to prevent the MI Healthy Climate Plan from being watered down by its opposition.

GEE-WOW! (Groundwater Education On Wheels), a flagship of the Ecology Center’s educational programming in the 1990s, is an example of the Ecology Center bringing to scale its philosophy that students' ideas matter and that students can be agents of change at all levels.

At the outset of 2020, we looked forward to celebrating our 50 years of accomplishments, and to lifting up our work today for healthy people and a healthy planet. As the global pandemic set in, we postponed the celebrations, and reconfigured our work.

Ecology Center found PFAS in all tested fertilizer and compost products. Check these products labels to find out the source of the materials. Ingredients listed as “biosolids” and “residuals” are code words for sewage sludge.

22 year-old National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman emerged as the breakout star of the recent Presidential Inauguration with her powerful delivery of “The Hill We Climb.” In “Earthrise,” her 2018 poem about the climate crisis, Gorman celebrates the vulnerable world we inherit

Ann Arbor voters passed Proposal C, the city’s affordable housing millage proposal, with a resounding voter support rate of 73.49%. Prop C is a major win for our community and for the environment, tackling homelessness, housing insecurity, and the climate crisis at the same time.