Three Tips to Glow Up With Christmas Lights Without Wasting Energy
This time of year when the sky gets dark, many houses are aglow with Christmas lights. In fact between Thanksgiving...
Annamarie Sysling is a producer for Detroit Public TV's Great Lakes Now.
She is a former producer for “Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson.” She also focuses on solutions-oriented environmental stories as a reporter.
Sysling was an intern at WDET beginning in 2012 and has worked as a freelance reporter, producer and storyteller for a variety of media outlets. She was hired by WDET in 2014 as a part-time reporter and anchor, and became a full time producer for Detroit Today in the Fall of 2019. For her 30th birthday, she went to the U.S.-Mexico border and volunteered in the Sonoran Desert searching for migrants with a humanitarian aid group.
When she’s not at work, Sysling is likely walking through the city, practicing yoga or out in her garden.
Ho, Ho, Horticulture: Is Your Fake Christmas Tree Environmentally Friendly?
This time of year, many of us are partaking in the annual tradition of either putting up a real or fake...
This Guide to Vegan Beauty Products Will Help You Be Ethical and Gorgeous
Veganism is trending, but dietary concerns are just one part of what it means to be vegan. There’s also a...
Created Equal, Season 2: Journalist Ron Fonger Says Water Crisis Was Government’s Failed Attempt “To Save Money”
Longtime journalist for the Flint Journal and MLive Ron Fonger talks with Stephen Henderson about his work covering the crisis....
Created Equal, Season 2: Lindsey Smith On Immersing Herself in Flint and Telling Residents’ Stories
In this episode, Stephen Henderson speaks with Lindsey Smith, p. 273, Michigan Radio’s Investigative Reporter. Her 2015 documentary about the Flint...
What’s cooking? Thanksgiving leftover recipes that don’t waste food
Meta Stange Let's be honest: Thanksgiving can be wasteful. So 101.9 WDET decided to find some useful ways to cut...
How to have an environmentally-friendly Thanksgiving holiday
Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans throw out an extra 25 percent of waste; which translates to roughly 1...
Hospitals Help Patients But Not the Planet. Here’s How to Change That.
Healthcare facilities in the United States dispose of 4 billion pounds of waste annually, making them the second largest contributor to...
Skip Forever 21 With These 5 Tips For a More Sustainable Wardrobe
People are buying and discarding clothing at a rate that has never been seen before. According to the New York...
Southwest Detroit Time Bank Lets People Trade Favors
Have you ever heard the old adage, "time is money”? For the last decade, an organization based in Southwest Detroit...
This Company is Designing Reusable Packaging For Major Corporations
Household products, toiletries, food, and more currently utilize single-use plastic containers and wrappers that end up in the trash. One...
Reimagining an Urban Future With Self-Sustaining Eco Villages
If you could live in a self-reliant neighborhood where water, electricity and food all came from right outside your door,...