Jeff Kart
Jeff Kart is an environmental writer based in Michigan, the Great Lakes state. He spent 14 years at The Bay City Times, the last several as an environmental reporter. Since 2010, he's been running his own consulting business called Enviroprose.
He's into renewable energy, green technology and anything interesting, especially if he can report it first. He loves Twittering, Facebooking and Linkedin-ing (although that last one may not be a word).
Jeff has a B.A. in Journalism from Michigan State University and an M.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Illinois.
He has numerous environmental fellowships under his belt, and cares a lot about connecting people with science and research and bringing awareness and a little bit of humor to green subjects. He is getting a little sick of the word "green," by the way, and likes to use "planet positive" once in a while instead.
Jeff is married to a marketing genius named Suzanne, has two daughters, a dog and cat. He loves camping as often as possible.
Latest Stories from Jeff Kart - Page 2
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You Can Buy a Cremation Online, Urn Included
For the man or woman who has everything. You can now buy a cremation package online. That's a Black Friday.
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New Flame Retardants as Bad as Old Flame Retardants
Flame retardants build up in the DNA of Great Lakes fish. Not cool.
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Giant Manta Rays Get Huge Protections, Still Face Extinction (Video)
Giant Manta Rays get listed by an international treaty organization, with help from a documentary. But threats persist from overfishing.
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Invasive? Bloody Red Shrimp Are Supper for Great Lakes Fish
Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.
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A New LEED Credit for Bird-Friendly Buildings
More green buildings can be bird-safe under a new LEED program in the U.S.
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Detecting Plant Diseases? There's an App for that
The Gene-Z app works with Apple and Android and can detect plant diseases in 10-30 minutes.
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Controversy over that Viral 'Murmuration' Video
A magical video of a flock of starlings has gone viral, and spurred questions from other filmmakers.
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Get a Case of the Green Gift Mondays
Green Gift Monday is back. And don't worry about the day of the week.
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New Rumble Strip Gets Kinetic Energy from Cars
A circus and gun show fires up the first working model of a rumble strip system that collects kinetic energy from decelerating cars.
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Audubon Releases Birding the Net, the Opposite of Angry Birds
Tweet tweet. Collect enough virtual birds and you could make it to the Galapagos.
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Solar Reflective Paints Can Make Your Car Cooler, Cleaner
Cooler cars don't have to all be white and light. Reflective paints can make dark colors cool.
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Toxic Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Worst in Decades
Blooming Lake Erie. Photo Credit: NASA EO Pure Michigan is a slogan used in the Great Lakes State, to bring in tourists and celebrate the beauty of nature. You probably won't be seeing these images in any Pure Michigan ad campaign. They're of algae,
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Human Waste Dumped into Oceans Harms Coral, New Study Reveals
Elkhorn coral is endangered. And it's being threatened by us, as in humans, and what we flush down the toilet.
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Fast Company's iPad App Explores Best-Designed American Products
If you seek out products that are "Made in America," seek out this app. It's called the "United States of Design" and was created by the Fast Company magazine folks. I may have come across it
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World Energy Use to Increase 53% by 2035, Despite Facebook Changes
Time for a little reality check from the U.S. Energy Information Administration --- or a projection, at least, based on the reality of rising energy use in developing nations like China and India. The EIA projects world energy use
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Study: Energy Efficiency of Computers Doubling Every 18 Months
Those of us fighting the battle with computer batteries will appreciate this. Batteries have come a long way since the 1990s. For instance, if a MacBook Air were as efficient today as a 1991 computer, the battery would last for
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Recycle Old CDs with Murfie, Buy Used Music for Cheap
Do you have music guilt? Music glut? Rows and rows of old CDs that haven't been played in years? If you're like a lot of people, you rip a CD to your mp3 player or smartphone as soon as you buy it. That's if you buy the CD at
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Why is Water from a Garden Hose so Delicious?
I posed this (age-old?) question on Twitter and Facebook today. To which one of my Environmental Studies colleagues replied, "the hose gives it taste." Ah, yes, the taste of childhood, of a hot summer day and cooling off
