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We catalyze regional collaboration, such as northwest Michigan's Grand Vision, and encourage better local planning and zoning. We also advance transportation choices like walking, biking, public transit, and rail, and promote better housing choices for working people.
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Special Reports
Expanding Transportation Choices in the Grand Traverse Region
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Connecting Villiages and Towns with Public Transit


Going To Town
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New Urbanism Arrive In Nothwest Michigan


Getting There Together
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Citizens’ Agenda to Move Transit Forward in the Grand Valley Region


Our Journalism
Time for Better Railroads in Michigan?

Time for Better Railroads in Michigan?

Cars drove Michigan’s economy during the last century, but crumbling highways, congestion, and soaring expenses have the state...more
Good-bye to Big Yellow Buses?

Good-bye to Big Yellow Buses?

Retirees Betty and Bob Dunham found another family of kids: the dozen or so neighborhood youths who congregated on school mornings in their...more


On Our Way To Copenhagen

The Institute's Brian Beauchamp heads to the Climate Change Conference....more
BATA Riders: More Village Service Means More Customers

BATA Riders: More Village Service Means More Customers

Doug commutes weekdays from Omena to his Traverse City job, but he hasn’t driven to work in months. Instead, he rides the...more


Does City Want Affordable Downtown Housing?

City officials have an opportunity to approve the development of a major affordable housing project in downtown Traverse City, something...more
County Planning Needs All of Us


County Planning Needs All of Us

Something important and hopeful just occurred on the Benzie County Planning Commission: It adopted a new ordinance that could help heal...more
The Scoop

David Letterman Hosted 350.org Founder Bill McKibben on his late night show.

Share Your Vision for Michigan’s Rail Future at the official state Web site.

More Than 200,000 Homes Have Been Weatherized so far, thanks to the American Restoration and Recovery Act.

09.04.10: A Taste of Michigan brings terrific local food—and zero waste!—to Crystal Mountain Resort. 

The Bioneers Conference Focuses on Food and Farming this year.

Detroit’s Move toward Local Farming is attracting more national attention.

The Spirit of 350.org Comes Alive in this amazing, totally fun video.

The Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Involves the world’s worst kind of petroleum.

A Survey of Great Lakes Islands ranks them according to their biodiversity—and the development threats they face. 

Local Food Gets Strong Support from Seattle’s City Council, which recently passed some pioneering urban ag ordinances

Benzie County’s Proposed Brauer Wind Farm got a nice write-up in the local paper.

Changes to Proposed Federal Safe Food Legislation could lighten the regulatory load on small farms.

Using Public Transit Instead of School Buses sounds good to the Traverse City Record Eagle.

Blow Up a Mountain, or Build Wind Turbines On It? A West Virginia community is thinking it over.

Most Michiganders Say Farming Is Very Crucial to the state’s economic recovery.

How About Power Towers That Look Like People? Iceland is thinking about it.

Beulah Has a New ‘Day Dock’ and a local TV station says lots of people are excited about it.

09.13-14.10: The Michigan Downtown Conference, in Bay City, will feature a barnburner of a speech from James Howard Kunstler.

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