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This week, the Michigan Energy Michigan Jobs coalition announced that more than 250 businesses have endorsed the ballot proposal to require that Michigan get 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. Does your business support the proposal? More

GLREA News 

GLREA has revised its webpage.  You can now join GLREA on line, use our business directory to find a product or service, or use the calendar to find a conference or event.  Your friends can subscribe to this newsletter and you can link to our You Tube channel.  Check it out at www.glrea.org. More

No shortage of fun things to do in the metro Detroit area this Labor Day weekend.More

Limor Nakar-Vincent, the Director of U.S. Business Development & BIRD Energy for the BIRD Foundation will speak at a Michigan Israel Business Bridge networking event on Thursday, September 6, 2012. The program is being held at the MIBB offices, 6735 Telegraph Rd, Rm. F, in Bloomfield Hills from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.More

Door to Door Organics, a leading e-grocer that delivers fresh, high-quality organic produce and natural groceries directly to homes, offices, and schools throughout Colorado, Chicago, Kansas City, and Michigan, was recently designated a “B Corporation” – a company that “meets rigorous and independent standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency,” as awarded by B Lab.  Door to Door Organics is setting the standard in e-grocery for fresh high quality groceries, customer satisfaction and corporate responsibility.More

Thanks to Challenge Detroit, the city has 30 new residents who live, work, and play in the Motor City. They’ll also be giving back, too, through their volunteer work.More

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is updating its 2035 Long-Range Transportation Plan to guide state investments for the next 20 years.More

On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 from 6-8 pm, doctors, environmental groups, community advocates, and concerned citizens will convene to discuss the chronic problems from soot air pollution and ways they can take action to clean-up the air in Detroit and all of Michigan.More