101st District candidate wants action after garbage washes up on Lake Michigan shore
LUDINGTON - State House candidate Dan Scripps today called for change to protect local beaches and the tourism dollars they generate after hundreds of pounds of trash washed up on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Manistee and Mason counties this week.
“An influx of [...]
Michigan Energy Fair
Friday, June 27nd - Sunday, June 29th, 2008
in Onekama, MI
at the Manistee County Fairgrounds
This weekend marks the 3rd Annual Michigan Energy Fair put on by the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association that will be held right in the heart of the 101st District at the Manistee County Fair Grounds in Onekama. The fair [...]
December 14, 2007 – 4:02 pm
Yesterday featured a number of interesting stories at the intersection of where we’ve been and where we’re going. First, the Traverse City Record-Eagle had another great story by AP environmental writer John Flesher about declining access to thousands of acres in the UP that has been available to the public for more than a century [...]
Congratulations to the Detroit Tigers as they enter the All Star Break with a one game lead in the AL Central. The Tigers are again giving us something to cheer for – going 14-5 in their last 19 games, including winning their last five, and sweeping the Red Sox, the team with the best record [...]
There’s a good piece over on MichiganLiberal (hat tip to Eric B.) on the economic opportunities of renewable energy and environmental protection, and it triggered a lot of what I’ve been thinking as I’ve watched from the outside as Lansing struggles with our budget dilemmas. Too often, Lansing seems trapped in old paradigms, unable to [...]
Today’s Muskegon Chronicle has a story on a local tourism promotion intiative where Muskegon boasts about being “Up North enough.” Evidently, the idea is to peel off some who would continue on to Ludington and parts further north and have them Settle for Muskegon. (Now that’s an advertising slogan for you…)
I know times are tight [...]
So it’s been a while since my last post, and I guess I’m coming out swinging for the fences.
Today, PRI’s program The World program featured a story on American philanthropist Greg Carr, who’s spending $40 million to promote eco-tourism in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park. In explaining how he’s been able to convince locals in this [...]
The Traverse City Record-Eagle is today reporting that officials from Kalkaska’s Downtown Development Authority are planning to approach Nestle Waters about building another bottled water plant in Northwest Michigan, this one taking water that feeds the Manistee River.
This debate, which is possible because of the so-called Water Legacy Act that opened up Michigan’s publicly-owned lakes, [...]
February 1, 2007 – 12:13 pm
Yesterday, Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) Chairman J. Peter Lark presented Governor Granholm with the MPSC’s much-anticipated (and overdue) 21st Century Energy Plan. Despite the official fanfare, however, the plan, with its call for watered-down renewable portfolio standards and the immediate construction of new coal-fired power plants, seems better suited to the 19th-century than to [...]
October 18, 2006 – 1:56 pm
This morning the campaign released a report on Michigan recycling entitled “The Cost of Delay: The Local Price of Obstruction on Michigan Recycling Funding.” I went up to the former site of the Northport Recycling Center, which the county closed last month due to lack of funding, to highlight the fact that we’ve lost out [...]
