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Have You Plugged In a Ford Lately? EVs, Plug-ins, and Hybrids Live on in Detroit (Part One)
In the smoking ashes of Detroit, Ford Motor Company looks a lot like the last man standing, which could have great big implications for the green car race. Nancy Gioia heads up Ford’s Sustainable Mobility programs—she shares with TreeHugger how her
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U.S. Rail Network Could Create As Many Jobs As Auto Industry
We've wondered what role rail and high speed rail -- "Obama's signature issue," for which at least $8 billion is laid out over the next few years -- will play in the new economically stimulated United States, and asked if it's the answer many think it
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Awesome! Abandoned Railroad Gets Converted in Biking and Walking Path in Detroit
Photos: Corine Vermeulen-Smith The Dequindre Cut is Now Open to the Public! A Detroit railroad line that has been abandoned since the 1980s has now been turned into a 1.2 mile biking and walking path, and Detroit officials assure us that this is only
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The End of the Suburbs. On Video.
A year ago when we wrote about Christopher Leinberger's Atlantic article The Next Slum? about the end of the suburbs, commenters wrote:
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Incredible Panorama of a Street in Detroit
Every time I write about Detroit, its promise and its great architecture that should be saved, people who live there post comments suggesting that I don't know what I am talking about. JDG at Sweet Juniper, a website written by " just two more people
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Thousands Of Lithium Battery Jobs Coming To Michigan: Trade & Immigration Policy Linkages
Michigan’s sagging manufacturing base is getting a big employment boost from makers of lithium-ion batteries. The four Li-O car-battery making operations taking root
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A Visit To A Very Different Michigan Central Station
Yesterday I wrote about the possible loss of Michigan Central Station in Detroit, which I considered a tragedy. Citizens of Detroit disagreed, saying that there was no money, there were other greater needs, and that it was too far gone to be saved.
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Michigan Central Station To Be Demolished With Stimulus Money
Anyone who cares about architecture should be just sick about what is going on in Detroit: The mayor wants an "emergency demolition" of one of the city's greatest buildings, the Michigan Central Station, designed by the
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After A Night On The Town: Racoon For Lunch
Detroit News Staff Writer Charlie LeDuff, left, watches Beasley butcher a raccoon. Image credit:Detroit News, To urban hunter, next meal is scampering by. Detroit News has a wonderfully written article about an elderly gentleman who lives the life of a
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Graphic Of The Day: Gasoline Savings For Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs)
This well constructed graphic conveys valuable insights for consumers. It will be especially useful for evaluating the incremental cost of a new PHEV-model vehicle derived
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Obama's Auto Task Force Questions GM Volt's Commercial Potential
Photo: GM Will We Ever See Chevy Volts For Sale? The White House has posted summaries of the Presidential Auto Task Force's assessment of the business plans of GM and Chrysler. One interesting part of the document about GM is the doubts concerning the
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Architecture for 99¢ a Minute
I first heard of Gina Reichert & Mitch Cope from the New York Times article on The Move to Detroit for the $100 House. I heard from them when they commented on Architecture 5¢ Becomes A Movement and a Lightning Rod;
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Magnetic Train Proposed: Detroit To Lansing Michigan - Hydrogen and Solar Energy Powered
Detroit Free Press is reporting on plans in the US State of Michigan to install stainless steel track, 200mph, solar-powered "magnetic" rail line(s) along
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School's Out Forever in Detroit
We talk often about Detroit, how this incredible infrastructure is going to rot and waste. The school system, which used
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Help Re-imagine Detroit with the Rouse [D] Competition
As we have noted, Detroit and other rust belt cities are in trouble. What can be done to revive them? Is it hopeless? Some think not. They have organized an "international open ideas competition challenging people to
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The Move to Detroit for the $100 House
We have wondered if the attraction of cheap real estate might lead to the revitalization of rust belt cities into greener, more self sufficient communities. Toby Barlow writes in the
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Big Automakers Giving Up the Fight Over Tailpipe Emission Standards?
Yesterday, the EPA held a hearing to debate whether California and 13 other states should be allowed to regulate tailpipe emissions. And guess who skipped out on the event? The big automakers. All of them. That's right, not a
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More to Hate About Coal Plants: They are Fish Killing Machines
If you want to go fishing on Lake Erie, you can get a licence to catch up to six walleye and 25 perch per day. Unless you are First Energy and run the Bay Shore Plant in Oregon, Ohio. Then you are allowed to
