Tag: Michigan
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89-year-old Michigan Beekeeper May Lose his Hives After Neighbor Complaints
Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.
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Faults Leading to 2010 Michigan Tar Sands Spill Known to Pipeline Operator For 5 Years
Plus, NTSB Investigators said a "culture of deviance" delayed Enbridge's response once the 2010 was first detected.
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Solar Breweries Come to Michigan
An Ann Arbor brewery has just completed a $350,000 overhaul of its facilities, all in the name of greener beer.
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The Decolonizing Diet Project is Teaching Volunteers to Eat Like Native Americans
How big of a locavore are you? Could you eat only foods that were available to Native Americans before 1600?
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What Causes "Zombie Infrastructure"? Depends Who You Ask
Republican Candidate in Michigan blames too much federal regulation. Others might suggest too little.
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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
