Building Community and Clean Air Solutions

Building community and clean air solutions

When Darren Riley moved to Detroit seven years ago, he didn’t expect the city’s air to change his life—literally. Developing asthma as an adult opened his eyes to a much larger problem: the invisible but pervasive impact of air pollution on the health of marginalized communities. “I was fascinated about why we don’t have the data we need,” Riley recalls, “or why we don’t have the infrastructure to solve these issues, to understand where pollutio…

Community air monitors give Detroiters new power against pollution

DETROIT —  As the Rev. Sharon Buttry drives by the Jayne-Lasky Park on Detroit’s east side, she points to the expansive 65-acre park, located just miles from her home.  “I tell people when they take their kids to the park, wear masks,” she said.  Buttry, a clergy leader at the American Baptist Churches USA who is on the board of the ​Detroit Hamtramck Coalition for Advancing Healthy Environments, is headed just north of the park to the Cadillac …

Building Community 2025 to hold fourth teach-in, 'How Does Pollution Harm Children?' - Dubois County Free Press, Inc.

Building Community 2025 will host ‘How Does Pollution Harm Children?’, the fourth event in their Teach-ins 2025 series, facilitated by Norma Kreilein, MD, FAAP, on Thursday, July 24, 2025, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ET at St. Benedict’s Brew Works, 860 E. Tenth St., Ferdinand, Ind. Local musicians Troubadours of Divine Bliss will perform from 6-6:30 p.m. ET. PLEASE BRING... The post Building Community 2025 to hold fourth teach-in, ‘How Does Pollution Har…