Category Archives: Environment & Environmental Organizations

Google Search Stories: Ypsilanti’s SolarYpsi Project

February 6, 2012 – 8:27 am

YouTube and Google have a feature called “Search Stories” about people who are using Google’s search to find new ways of doing things. One of the people they profile is Dave Strenski of Ypsilanti, who you can learn more about in the video below. Dave and some like-minded individuals created SolarYpsi in 2005 with the [...]

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February is National Cherry Month!

February 1, 2012 – 7:20 am

Michigan Cherries by jdurchen Did you know that Michigan is the largest producer of Montmorency tart cherries, growing 70-75% of the crop? February is National Cherry Month, and the Cherry Marketing Institute (link below) has bushels of info about the history and present state of the cherry industry including growing research showing that antioxidants in tart [...]

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Invasive Species in the National Parks

January 10, 2012 – 11:52 am

Goby by swatzo Last year the National Park Service produced a series of short documentaries exploring invasive species in the Great Lakes. The series was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative showing how invaders are changing the ecosystems in national parks and what’s being done to stop them. All four of them are available [...]

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The Lake in Winter: an excerpt from The Windward Shore

December 26, 2011 – 9:53 pm

Works by Michigan author Jerry Dennis include The Living Great Lakes, Winter Walks (with wood engravings by Glenn Wolff and design and letterpress by Chad Pastotnik of Deep Woods Press), A Place on the Water, It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes, Canoeing Michigan Rivers and more. Jerry has kindly allowed us to run this excerpt from his [...]

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Michigan’s Clean Energy act generating results

December 15, 2011 – 12:51 pm

Clouds are Cooler than Smoke by Jon DeBoe I guess it’s Coal Week on Absolute Michigan. After taking a look back at the history of coal mining in the Saginaw Valley on Tuesday, we’re back on the subject with news from the Great Lakes Echo. Michigan coal-fired plants to close; wind and air to step [...]

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Holiday Giving, Reconsidered

December 12, 2011 – 8:36 am

Ernst & Young fill that kettle by kmaz In a recent conversation about how we see need in Michigan, Rob Collier President of the Council of Michigan Foundations told us about several reasons to give charitably this year.  He said, “This is an important year to give and give big because the needs are so great.  Just [...]

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Experience Great Lakes Week with Great Lakes Now

October 12, 2011 – 7:26 am

Edited Oct 17, 2011 to bring in the archived content from Great Lakes Week 2011 Detroit Public Television (DPTV), in partnership with the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission, U.S. EPA, and Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition provided unprecedented access to the largest gathering of scientists, political voices, educators, environmentalists, and interested groups ever [...]

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Climate Change in Michigan

September 13, 2011 – 7:11 am

I read that Al Gore is going to present 24 hours of Climate Reality starting tomorrow at 7 PM. It’s hard for me to comprehend how an issue that should be mainly about science and solutions has become politicized to such a ridiculous degree. It seems to me an unquestionable fact that our world is warmer [...]

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Losing the battle against sea lampreys in the Great Lakes

August 15, 2011 – 7:40 am

Michigan Radio has a sobering report on another threat to the multi-billion dollar Great Lakes fishery, the familiar sea lamprey. It takes you inside the work of lamprey control teams and is well worth your consideration. For fifty years Canada and the U.S. have been battling an eel-like creature across the Great Lakes. Sea lampreys [...]

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Kalamazoo River Oil Spill: One Year Later

August 10, 2011 – 7:11 am

KALAMAZOO RIVER OIL SPILL by mic stolz (View Mic’s Oil Spill Slideshow) It’s been a little over a year since close to a million gallons of oil tar sands oil fouled the Kalamazoo River in Michigan’s largest ever oil spill (Wikipedia entry for the spill). The Environment Report from Michigan Radio has an excellent three-part [...]

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