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A Fantastic Marker of Progress: Notes from the Go Gary Project Tour

A Fantastic Marker of Progress: Notes from the Go Gary Project Tour

Written by Mary Elise McGrail, Communications and Marketing Intern “What are you guys doing?” a voice calls out, muffled in the late autumn rain. Attendees of the Go Gary Project Tour are huddled around a barbed wire fence with their multicolored umbrellas, peering at...

Brownfield Site in Gary to Become Urban Forest

How can a toxic, Superfund brownfield site that was once a bustling hosiery factory cleanse its past and start anew? An article in the Post-Tribune explains how Fresh Coast Capital LLC and Delta Institute are working together to plant poplar and cottonwood trees to...
From Brownfield to Beauty

From Brownfield to Beauty

How do we use trees to clean up soil? With funding from the U.S. Forest Service, we made a video that shows you how we’ve transformed 11 acres of vacant brownfields in Muskegon, MI into urban tree farms using fast-growing poplar trees that clean up soil while...