We’re working to replace coal power with new jobs in efficiency and clean energy, organizing local involvement in curbing global climate change, via the citizens group, TC-350, and promoting protection of Great Lakes water and our other precious natural resources.
Brian Beauchamp
Program
Policy Specialist
brian@mlui.org
20-20 by 2020: A Clear Vision for Clean Energy Prosperity PDF
Traverse City Light & Power's push for renewable energy should include much stronger commitments to energy efficiency and local, entrepreneurial wind and solar power projects-keys to lowering electric bills and creating new jobs in the region.
Fever of Development, Frontier of Recovery PDF
The sale of an expanse of globally rare, undeveloped Lake Michigan beach and dunes at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River signals an unmistakable and possibly momentous shift in the Saugatuck and Douglas real estate markets. An analysis of demographic and market trends affecting southern Lake Michigan shoreline communities and recommendations to protect the environment and a small town way of life.
Water Works TextPDFOrder
Water Works describes a new way of thinking about water resource development that is gradually and organically emerging in the Great Lakes Basin. It reduces costs, safeguards waterways, and strengthens the region's economic competitiveness. The challenge and responsibility for the region's civic and business leaders is to understand this movement and establish an atmosphere in which it can flourish.
Riding the Train or Bus Soon? MDOT may survey you to help them plan next steps in public transit services.
A Good Morning America Host Flunked a Hair Test—the kind that measures mercury, that is—during ABC’s coverage of new EPA coal plant pollution rules.
Big Cuts to High-Speed Rail, Amtrak, and Walkability Projects are in the U.S. House budget, but you can urge U.S. senators to reverse them.
More Young People Are Eyeing Farming, thanks to growing interest in fresh and local food.
Tougher Coal Ash Storage Regulations are still almost a year away, and EPA says it’s about the 450,000 public comments the agency still has to read through.
Can Sustainable Farming Feed the World? Mark Bittman says Yes!
Color-coded Buses Are Moving People in Seoul, South Korea.
Renewable Energy Summer Camps for Kids are lined up and accepting applications.
Are You Ready for ‘Mad Men on Trains’? Watch and vote for it at Funny or Die.
Circle of Blue Debuts Its Choke Point: China Series, looking at energy and water scarcity in the world’s largest country.
Traverse City’s Eco-Building Products just won a Small Business of the Year award.
Michigan SAVES Home Efficiency Loans are now available statewide.
Tighter Power Plant Pollution Rules Would Create Jobs, a new study confirms.
The Michigan Clean Water Corps’ Annual Report is out, and they’re looking for volunteer monitors for 2011.
Traverse City Area Public Schools are serving some of the best school lunches in America.
Peak Oil Is On Its Way, and James Howard Kunstler talks to TV host Max Keiser about it.
Farmers Can Get Low-Interest Efficiency and Clean Energy Loans via Michigan’s Farm Energy Audit Program.
Take a Ride on Detroit’s Woodward Light Rail Project via a cool CGI video, and learn more about Motown’s hottest project from Metro Times.
Do Americans Like EPA’s Clean Air Regulations? You bet, says a recent poll.
Close-In Suburbs Face a Housing Shortage, according to our pals at the Urban Land Institute.
What’s with Congressman Fred Upton, the once-reasonable Michigan pol who’s attacking clean-energy programs he once supported?
Obama Will Veto Any Clean-Air Rollbacks, including Supreme Court-endorsed greenhouse gas regulations, says E.P.A. Administrator Lisa Jackson.
Bakers Green Acres, near Cadillac, got a very nice write-up about its family-based, small-scale, local-food operation.
Grand Rapids’ Rapid Bus Seeks a Millage Boost—about $26 more per home—for more service and a longer “fast bus” route.
Generation HOT Author Mark Hertzgaard invites you to help shut down the country’s dangerous “climate cranks,” who are dominating D.C. politics.
Financing Community-based Windpower remains tricky, but local ownership seems to increase community acceptance.
Friends of Benzie Bus, which meets every Tuesday in Benzonia, now has a Web site, a Facebook page, and a video supporting the May 3 bus millage renewable.
Environmentalists Are Resisting Many Clean-Energy Projects, and Keith Schneider has some pithy observations.
Michiganders’ Right to Sue Polluters Is Under Attack Again thanks to new Republican State A.G. Bill Schuette.
What Are Your Home’s Biggest Energy Hogs? You might be surprised!
A Gas-Fracking Leak, Reportedly the State’s First, bubbled up in Benzie County’s Joyfield Township last week.
There Are More Jobs for Michigan in New Transit and old-road maintenance, says a new study by Smart Growth America.
Texas Windpower Helped Prevent Blackouts during the big blizzard that raked that state.
Friends of Benzie Bus Just Launched a Millage Renewal Campaign, and need your help.
Al Gore Reminds Bill O’Reilly That Global Warming was long predicted to produce extra-severe winters.
Onekema and Its Township May Get Married, and local folks will soon talk things over.
Some Californians Say Smart Meters Cause Cancer, and Grist says they’re crazy. (Warning: Adult Language!)
The New York Times Has a New Food Column, and it’s not about recipes.
The Dark-Sky Movement Is Growing, and a British island just won special recognition.
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