WTTW's "Urban Nature," a 16-part nature series brings viewers to unexpected places in three big cities: Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Delta's hybrid poplar tree farm in Gary, Indiana is featured in the"The Intricate Ecology...of Vacant Lots," episode. Delta is...
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Energiewende: Lessons from Germany’s Just Transition from Coal
-- By Cindy Winland, Delta Institute This post was written by Cindy Winland, a Delta Director focusing on land and community planning, who recently toured Germany with other Just Transition Fund grantees who are involved in the coal transition. The cultural and...
Lansing Brewing Company Embraces Scraps to Soil
WKAR, Michigan State University’s public radio station, produced a story on Lansing, Michigan’s Scraps to Soil program. The program, conducted by Delta with Live Green Lansing and Hammond Farms, and funded by the Michigan Department of Environmental Control, helps...
Lansing Pilots Food Scrap Program
Fox 47 News (WSYM) published an article on the City of Lansing's pilot food scraps program, Scraps to Soil. The program is being conducted by Live Green Lansing, a city community initiative, in coordination with Delta Institute and Hammond Farms. Since September, over...
Rain gardens planned for Hobart
This Post-Tribune article talks about how a green infrastructure project we are doing in Hobart, IN will help reduce urban stormwater runoff and pollution by 800,000 gallons annually.
Gary Project Deconstructs Vacant Homes, Salvages Materials
The Post-Tribune recently published an article on Delta Institute's Steel City Salvage Project, directed by Eve Pytel and funded by the Knight Foundation. The piece highlights the long-term positive impacts on the Northwest Indiana economy through utilizing Gary-based...
Deconstruction Underway in Aetna, Gary Neighborhood
Lakeshore Public Radio's Chris Nolte and Delta's Eve Pytel discuss Steel City Salvage in an episode of Regionally Speaking, a radio/podcast program covering Northwest Indiana. The conversation covers how deconstruction and re-purposing of material is beneficial...
Contractors Get Training Through Steel City Salvage
This piece by NWI Times highlights the training Gary contractors are receiving in building deconstruction and materials reuse through Steel City Salvage, a Delta Institute project with funding from the Knight Foundation. The article also highlights the millions of...
Expanding Capacity in NW Indiana: Trainees Deconstruct Blighted Structures During 3-Day Workshop
In partnership with the Building Materials Reuse Association, It’s Gary’s Time, and the City of Gary, Delta held a 24-hour deconstruction training, in Gary, Indiana. Nine demolition, renovation, and construction contractors from Northwest Indiana and the Midwest...
Knight Cities Challenge Winner, Steel City Salvage, trains local contractors to harvest building materials from blighted structures in Gary
NEWS RELEASE Release date: January 24, 2017 at 9 a.m. Contact: Nishaat Killeen, Senior Communications and Engagement Associate, Delta Institute, 312 554 0900, nkilleen@delta-institute.org. GARY, IN — January 23, 2017 —Delta Institute has kicked off contractor training...
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