Life is full of connections, and there is little more fulfilling than the warm feelings we get from this awareness. Some days we find one or two, and other days we need a bucket to hold them all. Such was my first evening with Satori Shakoor and the Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers…More
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and Southwest Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will co-present a luncheon program examining the influence of materiality assessments and major retailer scorecards on sustainability programs on Monday, May 12, at Perrigo from 12 to 2 pm. Presented by Perrigo.More
Energy efficiency could be used in an upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard to reduce CO2 levels with no net cost to the economy. Currently under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget, and likely to be released in early June, the standard would set a CO2 emissions limit for existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.More
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation today announced Michigan Strategic Fund approval of three business expansion projects that are expected to generate more than $52 million in investments and add up to 458 new jobs in West Michigan.More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $9 million in grant funding for clean diesel projects to reduce diesel pollution and emissions exposure from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines.More
Automation Alley’s “Trending Topics with Local Leaders” event series will feature a conversation with Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson on May 12 from 1-2 p.m. at Automation Alley Headquarters in Troy. Patterson will discuss Oakland County’s economic development plans and his current program initiatives to help create jobs.More
Utility work for the $140 million M-1 Rail project has already begun, and Rock Ventures President and CEO Matt Cullen said he expects to officially break ground for the lightrail track this summer. Once that work begins, the project will be finished in about two years, Cullen said Wednesday at a Detroit Economic Club lunch panel.More
CMS Energy expects to need at least 1,000 MW and, possibly as much as 2,500 MW, of new capacity over the next decade to replace retiring coal-fired generation and expiring power purchase agreements, company officials said Thursday in a conference call to discuss first-quarter results.More
The Energy Department announced $10 million to test prototypes designed to generate clean, renewable electricity from ocean waves and help diversify America’s energy portfolio. The Energy Department-supported demonstrations at the U.S. Navy’s wave energy test site off Hawaii’s island of Oahu will help develop reliable wave energy options and collect important performance and cost data for wave energy conversion (WEC) devices. The U.S. Department of Energy also announced up to $10 million to demonstrate and deploy innovative alternate transportation technologies for cargo vehicles, designed to help reduce U.S. reliance on gasoline, diesel, and oil imports.More
Tom Kiernan, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, put it bluntly. “I believe the work we do in the next 10 years will change life on earth. Our children, the future of the environment, of wildlife, depend on what we do.” Kiernan was in Grand Rapids April 24 at Aquinas College, presenting the case on wind energy for the Wege Foundation’s Economicology event “How Wind Energy can Power a Cleaner, Stronger America.”More
