Echo
Book explores Michigan’s shadow villages and ghost towns
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Retired librarian resurrects their past, tells their stories.
Echo
Investigating environmental soundscapes
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Environmental sounds of the Great Lakes region produce scientific analysis, guitar-playing finches and a spiritual balance.
Land
Artist prints native plants on invasive species
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Jane Kramer prints the shadows of endangered plants on paper crafted from the invaders that threaten them.
Recreation
Michigan filmmaker sets coming of age story in Upper Peninsula
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“Superior” based on 1,300 mile bicycle trip taken by two boys at the crossroads of uncertain futures.
Echo
Artists raise awareness about abandoned farms and child hunger
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The Food Fix podcasters visited ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, to talk to people who are taking a more artistic route to feed the world.
Recreation
Minnesota-based artist travels around the Great Lakes in four months
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Current State talks with a Minnesota-based poet artist who traveled along all the Great Lakes shorelines this summer for his project H.O.M.E.S.
Echo
ArtPrize: From solar sound to four-season photography
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Recently Echo visited ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan to talk with artists who’ve put an environmental spin on their work.
Recreation
The Food Fix: ArtPrize artist creates piece on water scarcity
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The Food Fix podcasters visited ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, to talk to people who are taking a more artistic route to feed the world.
Land
Seeking balance? Ask a plant
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Mary Siisip Geniusz revives native Anishinaabe-Ojibwe plant knowledge with cultural and culinary anecdotes in her new book.
Land
A Driftless paddle across natural history and restoration
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Canoeist’s trip through the Driftless Area of Minnesota and Wisconsin reveals ecological damage and repair among forested hills, bedrock outcrops, bluffs of caves, sinkholes, springs and disappearing streams of effigy mounds.