Category Archives: The Michigan Pages: Build Michigan!

Arresting Site for May 2008: Michigan Innovators

Hands at Work by detroitsky
Tim Pulice's Pulice Report blog has announced the Arresting Site of the Month for May 2008. The inaugural selection is Michigan Innovators and Tim writes:
I first ran across this terrific online destination last summer, which dovetails perfectly with the spirit of this blog, wherein I look to spotlight Michiganders who display [...]

Earth Day in Michigan

Green Frog Reflection by Pine Photography
It's Earth Day ... pretty much all over the earth. The official Earth Day site is more or less overwhelmed, so we'll have to wander around to find out what's up.
Wikipedia says that the story goes that the first Earth Day was spearheaded by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson who - [...]

$30 million dedicated to the 21st Century Jobs Fund Competition

The Bridge!!! by rossmat5msu
Businesses in the areas of alternative energy, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and homeland security and defense are invited to enter into the second 21st Century Jobs Fund Competition. The competition is focused on for-profit companies that can demonstrate a viable, sustainable business opportunity with near term job creation-five years or less.
The current [...]

Absolute Michigan Sponsor: Apollo Alliance

"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 [...]

Building Green in Michigan

grand rapids art museum by chadâ„¢
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 [...]

Five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27, 2008

Welcome to a special Michigan Homes & Real Estate edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Before I dive in I wanted to say a little something about our month themes. We got the word that a) you like them but b) you would like them to be not so loud so [...]

Harvest, Michigan's first commercial wind farm starts spinning

Spinners 2 by n8xd
John Deere Wind Energy is now producing energy at Harvest, the state's first commercial wind farm. The 3,200 acre installation has 32 windmills in Huron County's Oliver and Chandler townships. According to Windmill farm starts to generate power in Huron County from mLive:
A total of 32 windmills were installed last year on [...]

Five things you need to know for Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The Kalamazoo Gazette notes that while our state's leaders pay lip-service to protecting our environment and many plans call for re-development that leverages our amazing natural assets, we are almost at the bottom of US states in spending to protect & enhance them.
Great Lakes Town Hall turns two
In December 2005, an online social network called [...]

Senate hands Bush first veto on water bill

A Peaceful Ending by suesue2
The Detroit News just reported that the US Senate voted 79-to-14 to override President Bush's veto and authorize $23 billion of water projects nationwide. The override is the first of the Bush Presidency and the Senate followed the House's 361-54 vote to override. Michigan's entire delegation in the Senate AND House [...]

Blogs We Dig: Michigan Innovators

Moon Patrol by powerbooktrance
Each post at Michigan Innovators is a video podcast interview with innovators who can or have had an impact on Michigan's economy. Two professors at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University, Diana Wong and Bud Gibson, started the site with hopes that it would become a "highly visible repository [...]