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Pure Michigan Launches Winter Advertising Campaign Pursue Your Pure

LANSING – The temperatures are continuing to drop, and snow is starting to make its annual appearance, signaling the time for friends and families to start planning their winter adventures. To support those planning efforts, Pure Michigan is officially launching its national winter advertising campaign. This season, the campaign features two new advertising spots: Loud

By |2022-11-18T18:13:42-05:00November 18th, 2022|ESD, Politics/Government|

As The Regulated Marijuana Industry Wraps Up 2022, Companies Fine-Tuning Strategies For New Challenges 2023 Will Bring

LAS VEGAS – As the regulated marijuana industry wraps up the 2022 business year, companies are fine-turning their strategies for whatever new challenges 2023 might bring. Cannabis business leaders attending MJBizCon described a variety of expected headwinds in the year to come – and a range of plans to adapt and succeed. “The market has a

By |2022-11-22T15:54:58-05:00November 18th, 2022|Featured, Marijuana Business, News|

UN Report: Indiscriminate Use Of Hydrogen Could Slow The Energy Transition

NEW YORK - Hydrogen use by the G-7 could jump by four to seven times by the middle of this century compared to 2020 in order to “satisfy the needs of a net-zero emissions system,” according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency. In a foreword to the report, IRENA Director-General Francesco

By |2022-11-18T17:57:58-05:00November 18th, 2022|Clean Update|

Research Study: Amazon Alarmingly Close To Critical Tipping Point Of No Return

LONDON, UK - The Amazon rainforest is now "alarmingly close" to reaching a critical tipping point from which there is no return, with "catastrophic consequences for people and planet," new WWF research warns. The charity said the study, released on Biodiversity Day at Cop27, sounds an "alarm bell for humanity", and in the worst case scenario, the so-called "lungs of

By |2022-11-18T17:40:11-05:00November 18th, 2022|Featured, Science|

MPSC Approves DTE Electricity Rate Increase – Cost Residential Customer 71 Cents More Each Month

LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission today authorized DTE Electric Co. to implement a $30,557,000 rate increase effective Nov. 25 (Case No. U-20836). DTE Electric in January filed an application seeking a $388 million rate increase, to recover increased investments in its generation and distribution systems to improve safe and reliable electric service to

By |2022-11-22T15:56:02-05:00November 18th, 2022|Featured, News, Politics/Government|

Supercomputer Predicts World Could End By 2050

LONDON, UK - A supercomputer that uses an advanced algorithm has predicted that the end of the world could be upon us, with a theory suggesting that life could end as we know it 'by 2050' The eerily precise machine made the alarming prediction and is designed to foretell patterns in human civilisation. It was created

By |2022-11-18T17:40:12-05:00November 18th, 2022|Climate Change, Featured, Science|

More Tech Innovation Needed In Cannabis, Hemp Industries

ANN ARBOR - Thomas Lavigne, the managing partner of Cannabis Counsel, one of the oldest Cannabis-focused law firms in the country, says the Michigan technology industry needs to innovate in the cannabis and hemp sectors to produce products that serve public needs. For instance, he says in Hemp, the non psychoactive part of the marijuana

By |2022-11-18T15:45:33-05:00November 18th, 2022|Marijuana Business, mitechtv, News|

CitySideVentures Offers Funding, Investment Opportunities

BIRMINGHAM - If you are a tech startup looking for seed funding, or if you are someone with a lot of money tied up in your retirement plan, you need to watch this interview with CitySideVentures Director David Weaver. CitySideVentures has a $10 million pre-seed fund that already has invested in dozens of tech startups.

By |2022-11-22T15:56:20-05:00November 18th, 2022|Entrepreneurs, Featured, mitechtv|

Internet Outages Could Spread As Temperatures Rise

SAN FRANCISCO - Climate change is hitting us at an ever faster pace. 2022 is expected to be the sixth-hottest year on record as average temperatures reached 1.57 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. We're on track to normalize that temperature gain every year, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted last year, and it

By |2022-11-18T17:41:58-05:00November 18th, 2022|Clean Update, Climate Change|