Common Groundwater

About Common Groundwater

Michigan is defined by the Great Lakes that surround it. But there's a so-called sixth lake that’s critical to our state, too: our groundwater. It flows deeply through every community and to every corner of our peninsulas. Yet, we have so much more to learn about this natural feature. Like groundwater, this podcast shows environmental issues felt deeply, widely and personally across the state. It tells stories around those issues and the solutions to them. It goes beyond the headlines to bring listeners and viewers something grand yet personal to us all.

Publisher

Michigan Environmental Council

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2024

Latest episode

5 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Sept 2025

   Rising to the Sun

   The country roads around the small town of Albion are some of the prettiest you'll see in Michigan. Take it from this podcast host, who would run them with his cross country teammates at Albion College. Now, there are new neighbors out among the corn and soy and old trees, stunning in their own way but undeniably different: solar panels. Over 4,000 acres of them, generating enough electricity to power 60,000 homes. Bonnie Lord noticed these panels, too. She's the editor-in-chief of the A...

2. 

   8 Aug 2025

   Roots Deep & Wide

   Michigan's crops are the second-most diverse of any state. We tried to replicate that point of pride that in this episode. We went to two seemingly disparate places to talk about the critical relationship farms have with pollinators. First, we took the train to small-town Dowagiac in southwest Michigan to talk to Merry Clark about the history and benefits of organic and regenerative farming. Then, we drove over to Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood to meet Brittney Rooney of Beaverland Farms t...

3. 

   1 Aug 2025

   The New 'Silent Spring'

   In the mid-1900s, governments and industries across the globe were using the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT. Then came Silent Spring, a book by Rachel Carson that thoroughly documented the harm caused by DDT to waters, to wildlife and to people. It galvanized a movement that ultimately led to the chemical’s large-scale ban. Now some are saying a new Silent Spring movement must happen, because a pesticide 5,000 to 7,000 times more potent than DDT is here: neonicotinoids, w...

Who has been a guest on Common Groundwater

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Carly Cirilli
• David Cirilli
• Eli Cooper

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

33

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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