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Grand Vision group builds local economy with region’s bounty...
November 30, 2010 | By Glenn Puit
Grand Vision sees buses that speed commutes, boost ridership...
November 24, 2010 | By Glenn Puit
'Cheap' rural housing can financially trap struggling families...
Cafeteria’s local food pleases students, parents, teachers, and bean counters...
November 16, 2010 | By Jim Dulzo
Popular citizens’ plan for housing, transit, food, and energy can help entire community...
Urban gardeners, nearby farmers grow new, local food economy...
Jim Barnes, owner of The Crystal Lake Catering Company, Eco-Building Products, and Wild Leek Productions, produced and promoted the Green Plate Challenge this summer in order to connect local restaurants with local farmers. ...
A down-and-out town finds strength in its people and governments...
October 28, 2010 | By Jim Dulzo
National feed-in tariff expert heads to Traverse City, Lansing...
“Don’t toss the baby out with the bathwater.”...
The Solar Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, reports that Michigan is now fourth in the nation for job creation in the solar industry. ...
The Nature Conservancy and the State of Michigan said this week that new conservation easements and acquisitions would protect 271,000 acres of wilderness and natural area, including the Fox and Big Two-Hearted Rivers....
October 8, 2010 | By Jim Dulzo
Vermilya warns that Rogers City plant would harm N.E. Michigan residents...
My family here in Germany, where I’m visiting this week and next, has a favorite story about my great grandfather, Karl Bader....
But if you’re driving one of those new, very cool electric vehicles, GM’s Volt, or Nissan’s Leaf, which will start rolling off assembly lines later this year, where will you “fill up” with electricity instead of gas?...
25-step plan points way to more jobs, better health, stronger state economy...
September 27, 2010 | By Glenn Puit
As co-op appeals coal-plant denial, new questions about retirement and board pay...
September 15, 2010 | By Glenn Puit
Constitutional, ‘Home Rule’ challenges raise economic, political questions...
Elections a chance to push Lansing on farm policy improvements...
As I turn the calendar to September, things look different to me. Yes, apples are coming in, the days are getting shorter, and I’m noticing the usual seasonal changes at this time of year. But this year is different....
