Rebecca Salminen Witt
Detroit
Rebecca Salminen Witt is the President of The Greening of Detroit, a 25 year old non-profit environmental organization that works to secure the ecosystem of Detroit, Michigan by coordinating tree plantings, supporting community gardening, providing outdoor education to Detroit schoolchildren and sponsoring green jobs training programs for teenagers and adults. Rebecca finds inspiration in Detroit’s people and its possibilities. For the past 19 years she has turned inspiration into action by guiding The Greening’s growth from a staff of three with an annual budget of $235,000 USD to a 34-person, $6 million per year operation, planting 6,000 trees, providing nutrition and environmental education to nearly 10,000 children and placing 100 Detroiters in green jobs each year.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Water as a Commons in Detroit, the Great Lakes, and Beyond
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Lessons from Tinseltown: Nature’s Role in Alleviating Homelessness
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Abandoned and Auctioned, an Old House Finds a Future in Flowers
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Wild in Detroit: Realizing Opportunity in a New Nature
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10 scientists and 10 practitioners walk into a bar…what would they talk about? How can research and knowledge generation be co-created to better support practitioners and evidence-based decision making?