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We Want Green Too

We’ve been hearing about unemployment, vacant lots and poverty coming out of the motor city for decades. After an accident at an auto plant, Gloria Lowe became one such visionary, reinventing the way she approaches work and her community.

After an accident at an auto plant, Gloria Lowe became one such visionary, reinventing the way she... Read More

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January 10, 2012

Work, Reimagined: Detroit Gets Creative

Gloria Lowe was one of the prime movers in the planning group. Her business focuses on building sustainable urban communities through training in the skills necessary to remodel and build green living spaces in an affordable way... Read More

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Charlie Sifford Jr. is the son of Dr. Charlie Sifford, the first Black to play on the PGA Tour. He is carrying on his father's legacy. We are proud to have him as our Honorary Chairperson for the 2024 Salute to Our Heroes, 3rd annual golf fundraiser supporting Veterans and their families.... Read More

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Gloria Lowe, Judith Snow and more will shine a spotlight on community-driven efforts to address the profound opportunities offered by the accelerating decline of the job-based economy..... Read More

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We Want Green Too Featured in Forbes (Community-Based Organizations Working To Advance Energy Efficiency)

We Want Green Too was featured in Forbes this year, highlighting the role community-based organizations play in advancing energy efficiency nationwide.

In the piece, Executive Director Gloria Lowe spoke about what makes community-driven work different from top-down programs. Her approach starts with listening, not prescribing. As she put it, real change starts when you sit down and actually get to know the people you're trying to serve.

Lowe also shared data from WWG2's own research: the East Side Detroit service area shows energy usage 10% above the norm, evidence that shaped how the organization designs its programs.

The feature confirms what our community already knows. Nobody's coming to save Detroit. So we did. Now the rest of the industry is paying attention.

Full read: https://www.forbes.com

Voices: Detroit’s DTE shutoff crisis has a face, and it looks like mine

Our own Amani Sawari published a piece in Planet Detroit, and the numbers back up what we've been saying for years. This isn't a Detroit problem. It's a system built to put the risk on Detroit.

DTE shut off gas or gas and electric service 48,000 times in Detroit in 2025. That's 62% of every shutoff across DTE's entire territory, in a city that makes up under 17% of its customers. Shutoffs here lasted an average of 38 days. In River Rouge, 53 days. Add it up and Detroiters lost more than 1.8 million days without gas last year, roughly a full week of service for every single DTE customer in the city.

Amani writes about the shame that keeps shutoffs invisible, how people would rather carry it quietly than say it happened to them. But the data doesn't let it stay quiet. This is what energy poverty looks like in a wealthy country. The pipes and wires are already here. What's changed is who absorbs the risk every time a profitable utility gets another rate increase.

Nobody's coming to save Detroit's power grid for us. That's why WWG2 is at the table as an intervener in DTE's rate case right now.

Read the full piece: https://planetdetroit.org/2026/06/detroit-dte-shutoff-crisis-has-a-face/