The city of Detroit has a lot of concrete streets, slabs of road and old industrial buildings. 

But green spaces like Palmer Park provide an outlet to connect with nature. The park is home to one of the city’s old growth forests with diverse plant and animal life. 

And it’s just one of many spaces in Detroit hosting Earth Day celebrations and events this week to inspire environmental awareness and encourage community involvement.

On Sunday, the park will host Art in the Trees, an outdoor art exhibition among the trees in Palmer Park’s old growth forest featuring large-scale sculptures, music, activities and more.

Event organizer Mark Loeb joined The Metro on Earth Day to share more about the event.

Use the media player above to hear the full conversation.

More stories from The Metro on Tuesday, April 22:

• Detroit’s Pope Francis Center leader reflects on late pontiff’s legacy
• WDET is ‘rooting’ itself in local environmental reporting with tree canopy project
• Detroit Public Library is ready to help in many ways
• Michigan ends mandatory life sentences for 19 and 20-year-olds convicted of murder

Listen to The Metro weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon ET on 101.9 FM and streaming on-demand.

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Getting ready for Jack White’s big return to Detroit this weekend, plus new music from Hidden Spheres, Goat & Graveyard, Jadu Heart, Lindstrøm and more.

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for April 11, 2025

• “Light As A Feather” – Goat & Graveyard
• “Gamma Knife” – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• “It’s Rough On Rats (If You’re Asking)” – Jack White
• “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” – White Stripes
• “Hotel Yorba” – White Stripes
• “SOS” – Jadu Heart
• “Cirkl” – Lindstrøm
• “Lazuli” – Beach House
• “Promised Me Love (feat. Joy Spheres Rees)” – Hidden Spheres, Allysha Joy & Finn Rees
• “Sexy Boy (Vegyn Version)” – Vegyn & Air
• “DIPAD33 / W . I . D . F . U” – Saya Gray
• “Do It (feat. Aidan)” – Jam City
• “DNM” – Mk.gee
• “As Above So Below” – Fievel Is Glauque
• “A Day In The Life” – Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding
• “Only One” – Cassandra Jenkins
• “Lucy Takes a Picture” – Youth Lagoon
• “No Muscle, No Memory” – Rich Ruth
• “Dream of You” – Lionlimb & Angel Olsen
• “Lie In the Gutter” – Peel Dream Magazine
• “Better Hate” – Jessica Pratt
• “Pretty Girls” – Honeyglaze
• “Like I Say (I runaway)” – Nilufer Yanya
• “My Room” – Divorce
• “Wristwatch” – MJ Lenderman
• “Pink Sky” – Loma
• “Method Actor” – Nilufer Yanya
• “Words Fell Out” – Goat Girl
• “I Don’t Know You” – Mannequin Pussy
• “Brown Paper Bag” – DIIV
• “Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi” – Friko
• “Bara To Yaju” – Haruomi Hosono & Cornelius
• “Contact High” – Metronomy, Faux Real & Miki
• “Exile” – Swim Surreal & Zero 7
• “Go Down The Mountain” – TAMTAM
• “Why You Lied” – Forest Law
• “Breathe Now” – Tara Lily
• “levels (IZCO & Reek0 Remix)” – oreglo

Listen to In the Groove with host Ryan Patrick Hooper weekdays from noon-3 p.m. ET on 101.9 WDET or stream on-demand at wdet.org.