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Beyond the Power Grid: Buiding Detroit's Resilience Network with Briana DuBose
During a summer storm in Detroit, one small food pantry and soup kitchen stayed open while others in its network lost power. Solar and battery storage kept the lights and freezers running, neighbors from darkened pantries showed up, and food that would have spoiled was saved and shared.
That pantry is one of the resilience hubs EcoWorks is building across Metro Detroit, and it’s a case study in urban infrastructure that works at the neighborhood level. In this episode, Kate Gasparro talks with Briana DuBose, Executive Director of EcoWorks, about why trusted places like houses of worship and…
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