YES! Magazine gives nod to creative, life-sustaining jobs in Detroit

We Want Green Too, a non-profit that's aligning un-or under-employed Detroiters with sustainable jobs in their own communities, is an inspiring story. Could this be replicated in other southeast Michigan communities?

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"Detroit entrepreneurs are learning to rely on each other, finding the seeds of a new economy in resources discarded by corporate America.

When pieced together, these projects aren't merely aimed at figuring out ways for people to make a living; they're about neighbors helping neighbors to build new lives. The city is becoming a place, in certain pockets, where citizenship isn't defined by voting and paying taxes. It's thought of more broadly—creative collaboration to create new ways of living out of necessity."

More here.
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