DEARBORN - The Ford Motor Co. Fund has awarded $225,000 in grants to nine colleges, including four from Michigan, to support building sustainable communities. The Ford College Community Challenge is a national challenge grant competition that recognizes colleges and universities that utilize a school?s resources to address an urgent community need related to the grant?s
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researchers Thursday released a series of reports that content while considerable natural gas reserves are believed to exist in the state and high-volume hydraulic fracturing has the potential to help access them, possible impacts to the environment and to public health must be addressed. Though modern high-volume hydraulic fracturing
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday issued a report showing its net metering and solar pilot program saw a 55 percent increase over 2011, with wind net metering following. The report noted that the number of net metering customers increased from 1,015 in 2011 to 1,330 in 2012. The total size of the
GRAND RAPIDS ? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum announced this week that Dan Schoonmaker has joined the staff as Director. He will begin his duties officially September 16. Schoonmaker comes to the Forum after serving three years as the Director of Communications and Member Services for the West Michigan Environmental Action Council, where he
SOUTHFIELD ? Lawrence Technological University will host a sustainability conference in September to bring together architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, homeowners, educators, students and those responsible for both for-profit and non-profit buildings to update on the latest development in sustainability. Sustainability Strategies for People, Profit & Planet will be held at LTU on Sept. 27-28. The conference
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum announced this week the recipients of $5,000 in scholarships, Amanda Klein, Kendall College of Art & Design, and Lucas Timmer, Calvin College. Both are entering their senior year. Klein is majoring in Interior Design with a minor in Collaborative Design. She has served as the President
LANSING - The Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities Celebrates a decade of Petroleum Reduction Efforts in the Tri-County Region on Aug. 22. GLACC has played an integral role in enabling the adoption of alternative fuels, advanced vehicle technologies, and fuel economy improvements in our region. Over the past decade, we have helped our stakeholders displace
DETROIT - DTE Energy selected 67 solar energy projects in the second round of its expansion of the SolarCurrents customer-owned pilot program, which offers customers a more affordable way to install solar photovoltaic systems on their homes and businesses. In this second round offering, incentives were awarded to 56 residential projects, representing 373 kW and
TRAVERSE CITY ? If the United States is to develop a sustainable electric vehicle infrastructure, charging stations and better swap locations will be critical, a new study released this week shows. PwC?s Electric Vehicle Survey 2012 predicts global hybrid and electric vehicle market share will reach 6.3 percent by 2020, if finding the right ratio
LANSING - In a wide ranging consolidated case covering four separate issues involving the Detroit-based utility DTE Energy, the Court of Appeals held on Wednesday that the Public Service Commission was wrong in allowing the utility to charge for updating meters and a particular method to recover costs, but that it could charge customers for