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HomelessnessA just-released Government report on homelessness shows the number people living without shelter has increased at a rate researchers believe is faster than...See the Story
‘It’s Clear We Have a Real Problem’: Homelessness 'Appears' to Be Outstripping Population Growth
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Detroit, Michigan · DetroitBehind David Milarch’s desk in a large warehouse in rural Michigan grows the future of climate change solutions. Thousands of infant sequoia and coastal redwood saplings, each the size of a thumb, sprout beneath grey foil and growing lamps in bus-size greenhouses. In the next room are their juvenile siblings, five to eight inches tall: sequoias, coastal redwoods, oaks and a hundred other tree species form the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive (AATA…Read Article
A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit
Music · ChicagoIn February 2025, in the shadow of the Israel-Hamas War with its rising death toll and humanitarian crisis, a small audience in a library in Chicago experienced the war’s heartbreak, one note at a time. A classical string quartet played Lao Rahal Soti (“If My Voice Departs”) with the lyrics: If my voice departs, your voices will not / If the singer dies, the songs will remain / bringing together the broken and suffering hearts. “I’d composed thi…Read Article
