LEED Neighborhood Development Friday, June 8, 8am-5pm at Henry Ford Comm College in Dearborn After years of phenomenal success with its LEED rating systems for buildings, the USGBC has rolled out the new LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND) Standard. The Detroit Regional Chapter is now ready to start demonstrating the advantages of LEED ND […]

Our co-founder, Karen Kendrick-Hands, figures that we need to have a million conversations to build support for transit in southeast Michigan.  (While I may feel some days like I’ve done that personally) it’s going to take a lot of outreach by a lot of people to make that happen. We are planning some exciting community

Thanks so much to everyone for making calls and emails to our legislators on the RTA.  It has made a big difference.  Almost all of our Detroit area legislators are now on board with the RTA!!  However, we need the full Michigan legislature, particularly a majority of Senate Republicans, to pass it and many Senators from

Thank you so much to everyone who made tonight’s Regional Transit Awards dinner a great success! Over 150 people enjoyed a hors d’oeuvres reception, silent auction, dinner, and awards ceremony. Model D provided a nice summary and a few photos.  Additional photos coming soon. Join me in congratulating the Award winners (and all the very deserving nominees):

TRU’s Regional Transit Awards dinner is shaping up to be a fabulous event.  Don’t miss a minute! Our exciting fundraising dinner is just a few days away and you won’t want to miss mingling with regional transit leaders, bidding on fabulous silent auction packages, congratulating the award nominees, and seeing who wins the Regional Transit