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Clean Energy Roadshow a tangible tour of Michigan’s progress | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. Clean Energy Roadshow a tangible tour of Michigan’s progress. By Allie Muchmore on August 30, 2012. The founders of MiGrid. Asked me a few months back to come on their inaugural Michigan Clean Energy Roadshow, a week-long road trip to 25-plus clean energy installations across Michigan. Skip Pruss, co-founder of 5 Lakes Energy. We visited the Northport Energy Action Taskforce. NEAT) to see their community wind proj...
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MEC adds on-site solar in ongoing sustainability effort | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. MEC adds on-site solar in ongoing sustainability effort. By Andy Draheim on April 17, 2015. When we acquired MEC’s current home in 2012, we committed as an organization to operating our building in a way that embodies the environmental values at the heart of our mission. We recently completed the newest project in that effort. Srinergy. LEED Platinum Certification, the highest level awarded by the U.S. Gre...The L...
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Guest post: Coldwater River fiasco highlights need for drain code reform | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. Guest post: Coldwater River fiasco highlights need for drain code reform. By Andy McGlashen on July 21, 2015. Editor’s note: This piece was contributed by Dr. Bryan Burroughs, executive director of Michigan Trout Unlimited and a member of MEC’s board of directors. It originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Michigan Trout Magazine. It has been edited here for length. A group of state agencies and conservati...
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Déjà vu | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. By David Gard on June 8, 2012. We’re a nation of champion procrastinators. That’s my conclusion after reading National Geographic’s special report,. Energy: Facing up to the problem, getting down to solutions. The piece is straightforward with hardly any breaking news. For instance, who (at least among those based in reality) doesn’t already know that the U.S. economy has been heavily dependent. Here are a few mor...
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Honeybee swarm! | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. By Hugh McDiarmid on May 16, 2012. This honeybee swarm in a residential neighborhood is terrifying, unless you know a bit about honeybees. I learned from the wise old hands from the Southeastern Michigan Beekeepers Association. Who taught me and several dozen other newbie classmates the ancient art and science of this fascinating trade/hobby last year. My protective face veil! Is 90 percent dependent on honey bees.
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Ten surprising facts in Michigan’s new water strategy | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. Ten surprising facts in Michigan’s new water strategy. By Brad Garmon on August 6, 2015. Crafting a 30-year strategy to position Michigan’s abundant (and awesome) water assets in a national and global context is no easy feat. MEC is grateful to Governor Snyder for asking for such a plan, and to Jon Allan and his team at the Office of Great Lakes (OGL) for pulling a laudable draft of one together. Michigan has more...
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MEC’s House Energy testimony: 5 takeaways | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. MEC’s House Energy testimony: 5 takeaways. By Andy McGlashen on May 7, 2015. Today the House Energy Policy Committee held a hearing on another package introduced by Rep. Aric Nesbitt, the committee’s Republican chair. The bills propose a number of actions that would turn back the clock on the economic development, cost savings and carbon reductions Michigan has achieved since 2008. For instance, they w...MEC Polic...
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Traverse recognizes energy as key to future | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. Traverse recognizes energy as key to future. By David Gard on June 25, 2012. I was fortunate enough to find myself in Traverse City. Earlier this month. Unlike the happy tourists who were enjoying the shops, restaurants and beaches in that wonderful place, my purpose was to attend the Energy Efficiency Leadership Summit. Hosted by Michigan Land Use Institute (MLUI). After brief opening remarks and a tasty breakfas...
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Urban Chickens: Food & Fun! | Michigan Distilled
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Boiling it down — Analysis, insight and vagaries from Michigan Environmental Council staff. Urban Chickens: Food and Fun! By Kate Madigan on July 9, 2012. Three new additions to our family arrived this spring hens named Emma, Trunchable, and Getaway. No, we don’t live in the country, but right inside the city limits of Traverse City. You can even rent a chicken. The Traverse City ordinance. To help demystify backyard chickens, some chicken-having friends of ours started the Coop Loop, an annual tour of c...
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