GRAND RAPIDS - Supercenter retail chain Meijer will soon expand its green initiatives to include the use of wind power at some of its West Michigan facilities. Meijer received approval to install the wind turbines from the zoning board of appeals in the city of Walker, the Grand Rapids suburb where Meijer's headquarters facility is
TRAVERSE CITY - SEEDS will present initial findings from their baseline assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions from Grand Traverse County residents, businesses and visitors including strategies for reducing emissions on March 5 at the Traverse Area District Library. With a clear picture of where our emissions are coming from we can develop targeted strategies
LANSING - In hopes of getting as much as $750 million of the $2 billion in federal stimulus money to promote advanced battery manufacturing, legislative leaders have launched an effort to expand the tax benefits the state offers for high tech battery makers. The Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee expects to report SB 319 on
LANSING - Even after the federal government last year poured nearly twice as much money into helping Michigan residents pay utilities and avoid shutoffs, the state's crisis prevention program is still struggling to keep up with added demand brought on by increasing unemployment and winter's high energy costs, experts told a House subcommittee on Tuesday.
DETROIT - What's your carbon footprint? How much greenhouse gases do you burn, or does your company burn. Well Carbon Credits Environmental Services can tell you and also mitigate the gases you do create by planting carbon dioxide eating trees. Carbon Credits is based at Wayne State University's TechTown. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
ROCHESTER HILLS - These days, Green is more than a buzz word. Green is becoming a way of life. MichiganMall.com is joining this initiative. Working with Carbon Credit Environmental Services, Inc. who analyzed the carbon usage of their computers and server, developed the carbon offset, MichiganMall.com is now a GREEN website. As an example if
MIDLAND - Midland Tomorrow and Saginaw Future Inc. Thursday launched a dynamic partnership to attract new solar business investment to the region. The Great Lakes Bay Economic Development Partnership is a marketing collaboration that will present a unified marketing message and help stimulate the region's solar industry. "The three economic development organizations have worked cooperatively
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Google muscled into the burgeoning smart-grid software business Tuesday, showing off a prototype Web application that displays home energy consumption broken down by appliance. The software uses so-called smart meters, which can communicate home energy consumption back to utilities every few minutes. The driving idea behind the Google PowerMeter iGoogle gadget--and
DETROIT - DTE Energy, parent company of Detroit Edison and MichCon, is helping low-income customers apply for the Home Heating Credit, a state energy credit that can help offset the costs of natural gas or electricity used to heat homes in the winter. The Home Heating Credit is based on household income, the number of
DEARBORN - If an electric passenger car is good, an electric people mover is even better. Ford Motor Company on Monday announced plans to bring an all-electric version of the 2010 Transit Connect to the North American market in addition to its 2.0 liter gasoline-powered model. Based on the global Transit Connect platform, the light