Tag: Michigan
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Lessons From The Past: How Living Like Great Grandma Is Green
Matt Grocoff describes how his ancestors lived " in an elegant cradle-to-cradle, closed loop pattern."
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Federal Food Aid Recipients Double Their Money at Local Farmers' Markets
The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients
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Koby Cottage "Represents a Revolution in Modular Construction"
It is a few years old but a real find. We probably won't see the likes of it again for a while.
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One Female Left: Wolves May Go Extinct in Michigan National Park
The last pack of wolves in a Michigan national park is near extinction. Should humans intervene?
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Heart-Powered Pacemakers to Eliminate Battery Replacement Surgery
Researchers propose using the vibrations of the heart to keep pacemakers going, eliminating the need to replace batteries.
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Michigan Has Large Shale Gas Reserves, In The Great Lakes Watershed
The Michigan basin has extensive shale gas reserves, yet it is not a political issue for Democrats or Republicans. Why?
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My Favourite Stories of 2011: March
Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories
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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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University Installs Solar and Electric Car Charging. "Environmentalists" Get Mad.
Western Michigan University is installing solar-powered electric car charging. But it has to chop down nine trees to do it.
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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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Thousands Ask Univ. of Michigan Stadium to Go Solar
From the Redskins' huge solar installation to a solar-powered NASCAR track that mows its grass with sheep, major sporting venues can be an ideal location for solar power. From large expanses of rooftops and parking lots to their high energy needs to
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Internet Killing Print Media: Up-Cycling Paper Mills Could Make Digital Communications Greener
Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the
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Can You Spot TreeHugger in this Google 'Search Story' About Solar Power in Michigan? (Video)
Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The
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Health Effects from Michigan Oil Spill Linger: Tar Sands and Lighter Oils "Double Whammy" Impact
Just months after the BP spill last year, an Enbridge pipeline spilled nearly a million gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan. It became the largest oil spill in the
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Gibson Guitar Corp. Investigated Again On Legality Of Rainforest Wood Imports
A Gibson guitar operation in Nashville was recently raided by Federal agents - this being the second time in 3 years. According to a WSJ article (see Guitar Frets) , they were looking for
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Feds Hiring Unemployed for Great Lakes Cleanup
Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for restoration projects that put the
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Facial Hair FTW: Grow a Beer Beard and Save Water
Thanks to the King of Beers. Budweiser has given men another excuse for not shaving, and growing a beard. Let's extend this to any beer, or any reason, for growing a beard and saving water. Like growing a beard for locally made
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New International Dark Sky Park Opens in Michigan; Only Nine Others in the World
Michigan's nightlife is looking up. The state's first International Dark Sky Park has been created. It's now one of only six in the U.S. and 10 in the world. Think about that. In lots of (too many?) places on Earth, you don't see
