How We Make it Happen
01
Bring People
Together
A township, a garden club, a high school, a landscaping crew, a family with a Saturday. We convene them around one place and make showing up easy.
02
Improve Places that Matter
Gateways, corridors, medians, main streets, schoolyards. We start where the most people will see it and the most people can help.
03
Build Something that Lasts
Native species, honest maintenance plans, local stewards named before the first shovel. We plant for the people who will drive past in 2060.
Shovel Ready
Donors are ready for the first small-scale demonstrations. None of this is rocket science — it has been done well in Michigan elsewhere, and we can do it even better and more economically, and for many years to come.
Operation Front Door
Every highway entrance, rail line and port of entry into Michigan. What do our guests see first — billboards, or the state we actually live in?
Native Meadows
Miles of mown shoulder converted to native meadow. Cheaper to keep than turf, and alive with what belongs here.
Blight & Squalor Mitigation
Flint, Detroit, Saginaw. Good models already exist and good people are already at work; they would welcome the attention. The funding, then help and the cooperation.
Roadside Robotics
Off-the-shelf robotics and AI applied to litter collection and large-scale planting. Michigan has a world-class technology sector and universities that can improve it, invent it, and build it.
SEEKING TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH
Michigan Department of Transportation · Michigan DNR Forestry · Michigan State University · Michigan Technological University · Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association · Michigan Chamber of Commerce - Fraternal organizations
Our growing informal advisory team includes State Senate and State House members, and professionals in law, insurance, ethics, civil engineering, landscape architecture, forestry, robotics and user experience.
WHERE WE STAND TODAY
Due diligence and information gathering, an advisory team forming, nonprofit formation underway, and committed donors ready to fund the first demonstration projects.
Built on Trust
Too many good causes lose the public's confidence before they lose their funding. MPP is being built the other way around: the clean model first, the initial plantings second. Utterly apolitical and rigidly non-partisan. Working on what we hold in common is something we already agree on.