MI Healthy Climate Corps helping community with combating climate change [Video]

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– The ‘MI Healthy Climate Corps’ started in March and members of a new state program are focused on helping communities with initiatives to help tackle climate change.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the ‘MI Healthy Climate Plan’ in November, to make Michigan carbon neutral by 2025. Officials of The Environment Great Lakes and Energy, also known as EGLE, said the new program is meant to help achieve this goal.

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Isidor Mitchell, a Sustainability Project Coordinator for MI Healthy Climate Change said she is focused on organizing drop-off sites for organic food waste.

“It’s a lot of just the planning process for figuring out who in the community do I need to talk with and engage with. To figure out where are we going to put the drop-off site,” said Mitchell.

Brion Dickens, a Program Manager for Solar Sighting, is a member just like Mitchell and is stationed in the city of …