The Detroit Zen Center turns green building into green jobs

Thursday, August 27, 2009 | Source: Model D

Buddhist monks are some of the greenest people in Detroit/Hamtramck, creating lots of new eco-friendly jobs at the Detroit Zen Center.

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The Detroit Zen Center is known for its ultra-green complex in Hamtramck and expansion into organic food and urban farming. It's not as well known that the Buddhist temple supports itself by having a hand in a number of green projects across Metro Detroit.

Today the Detroit Zen Center's green building operation employs three full-time Buddhist monks, four local contractors and five student volunteers.

"The more we did the more we got into green building and sustainability," says Hillary Moga, director of the Detroit Zen Center.

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