Category Archives: Environment & Environmental Organizations

Michigan Plants: Pink Lady's Slipper

April 9, 2008 – 12:10 pm

Lady Slipper Flower by cyoas55
The Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) or Moccasin Flower is a large, showy wildflower belonging the the orchid family. The heavily veined, deeply cleft pouch of this wild orchid is a distinctive characteristic of this species. Because this plant has an extremely long life cycle, taking many years to go from [...]

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Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Ann Arbor

April 2, 2008 – 12:39 pm

Plumeria by IShutterToThink
Named after former Michigan regent Frederick C. Matthaei, Sr. and his wife Mildred, who donated 200 acres of land, the Matthaei Botanical Gardens are operated buy the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Spring is a great time to visit and watch the Gardens come to life. Here is a downloadable Visitor Guide [...]

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Absolute Michigan Sponsor: Apollo Alliance

April 2, 2008 – 8:00 am

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are [...]

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Building Green in Michigan

March 31, 2008 – 10:09 am

grand rapids art museum by chad™
When the topic of 'green building' comes up many still think of images such as earthships, built from recycled materials including used tires. Although efficient and intelligently designed, they didn't necessarily appeal to the maintstream home owner or developers. Today green buildings appear much like any other home or [...]

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Marquette, Michigan - 'Paradise Found'

March 27, 2008 – 7:22 am

NW vista by DA2Brian
Marquette, MI has been named one of the top 200 places in the U.S. for sportsmen and women to put their roots down in the April edition of Outdoor Life magazine.
These places exist in every state, towns where you can step out your back door with a fly rod or a shotgun [...]

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Michigan April Event Calendar

March 13, 2008 – 1:21 pm

With Spring just around the corner we thought we'd get a jump on the April Events Calendar. Hopefully "Old Man Winter" gives way to spring sooner than later. Weather prognosticators Punxsutawney Phil of Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, PA tells us here on YouTube that will wouldn't be getting an early spring. Phil made that [...]

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Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, December 4, 2007

December 4, 2007 – 10:18 am

Welcome to the "Big Tuesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan (sequel to our critically acclaimed Big Wednesday edition). For us, some big news was the fact that the Nick of Time Gang in Lansing managed to replace the service tax with something a lot fairer and more sensible. AP writer [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

November 27, 2007 – 10:09 am

They said it: Dana Johnson, chief economist for used-to-be-Detroit-based Comerica Bank in forecasting modest 1-2% growth for Michigan's economy in 2008. We'll finally have the sense, after four years of a downturn, we're on a rise again. Roy Williams, on the I don't want it, you take it NFC playoff race: Yeah, we’re in this [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

November 14, 2007 – 11:20 am

Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...

Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending yearlong studies of the former Hudson's site on Woodward and vacant Statler Hotel site, would consolidate at least 4,000 employees in [...]

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Manoomin Project restores wild rice to UP … and that's just the beginning

November 13, 2007 – 7:12 am

Last year we ran a story on the Manoomin Project, a program in which at-risk teens restore wild rice to Michigan's Upper Peninsula with help from American Indian tribes. Click through to read a feature by Greg Peterson about this ground-breaking Michigan initiative that's now in its 4th year. You can also scroll to the [...]

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