Detroit Goes Green!

For those of us who live near the near-fallen motor city, the words green and Detroit don’t usually go together. This week’s “Detroit Metro Times” article, Down a green path, discusses a proposal for an alternative community called Adamah. “The project leans heavily on agriculture. Plans include greenhouses for tulips and vegetables, grazing land and a dairy, a tree farm and lumber mill, community gardens and a shrimp farm. The plans also include windmills to generate electricity, ivy-covered freeway buffers to help clean the air, a canal for both irrigation and recreation, even co-housing, which can include shared dining and common areas to provide a greater sense of community. It calls for creation of living and work spaces in such old industrial buildings as the former Packard auto plant.”