Tag: Michigan

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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

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  Michigan Lawmakers Propose Ban on Offshore Wind in Great Lakes

  Yeh. That's right. No offshore wind turbines on Michigan's Great Lakes. Coal-fired power plants are much more appealing: Beautiful

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  Are Holland, Michigan's Heated Sidewalks "Intelligent Infrastructure"?

  Sally Augustin of Metropolis makes some grand claims in her post Places that Work: Holland's Sidewalks that I want to believe and promote; after all, I have always said that private investment

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  Mitchell's Satyr, One of World's Most Endangered Butterflies, Gets Wing Up

  Beautiful, chocolate-brown Mitchell's Satyr butterflies used to frequent up to five U.S. states. Today, this species of butterfly can only be found in 19 "fens," a type of unique, low-nutrient wetland area, in

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  Asian Carp Study Largest Since Reversal of Chicago River

  This $2 million project, funded mostly with private money, is billed as the most comprehensive look at the Chicago waterway system since the reversal of the Chicago River more than 100 years ago. This

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  CAFO Farms Boost Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria, Study Says

  CAFOS, aka concentrated animal feeding operations and factory or mega farms, are known for water pollution. What that pollution does, beyond being disgusting, is still being studied. The latest

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  Infectious Disease Neckties = Socially Minded Styling

  You may have heard that well-worn neckties can be full of germs. This isn't one of those posts. Not directly, at least. It's about Infectious Awareables, a California company which sells silk neckties featuring microscopic close-ups of