GRAND RAPIDS - If you want to save hundreds of dollars each year on your heating and cooling costs, perhaps upwards of one thousand dollars, you ought to have a home energy inspection done, says home energy auditor Gary Hammerlund of www.homeenergyinspections.com. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - Consumers Energy will be able to charge more for its natural gas service and Detroit Edison more for electricity, but both increases were substantially below what the utilities requested under orders issued Tuesday by the Public Service Commission. Edison was allowed an $83.6 million increase in its rates, but that was below both
DETROIT - Cash-starved General Motors has put plans on hold for a new factory to build the Chevy Volt hybrid engine in Flint. The move is part of GM's efforts to reduce expenses as it appeals to the White House for federal aid of at least $8 billion to stay in business for the next
ADRIAN - GreenShift Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has executed agreements to receive a $38 million investment to produce 20 million gallons per year of biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants. Under the terms of the agreements, GreenShift will receive an investment of $38 million in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary
HOLLAND - The Sierra Club announced Monday that it had sued the Holland Board of Public Works over plans to expand its James De Young power plant. The group is arguing that the plan does not call for sufficient pollution controls on the expansion and does not address prior federal Clean Air Act violations. But
DETROIT - Michigan Public Service Commissioner Monica Martinez told attendees at the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association's Annual Meeting that the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard "is a positive step that moves Michigan forward by boosting" the state's economy. "It helps diversify Michigan�??s fuel mix, making it less dependent on foreign and fossil fuels; and helps
NEW YORK - According to a recent Office Depot survey, there is growing interest in green behaviors by small business so much so that the company reported a 10 percent increase in 2007 of sales of environmentally preferable products in the contract channel. Sales from the Green Book, which is Office Depot's catalog of green
PETALUMA, Ca. - In these tough economic times, a new HydroPoint Data Systems Inc. survey noted that implementing sustainability programs can help organizations achieve their financial and environmental goals. The company's annual Green Leaders Survey interviewed over 500 chief responsibility officers, chief sustainability officers and other executives from leading organizations within the public and private
GRAND RAPIDS - JF New's Michigan office has been very busy in 2008, despite the down economy. It seems ecological restoration, and sustainability are big sellers in the state. A case in point is the new Metro Health Hospital in Byron Center which sports a green roof that better controls rain water run off, as
GRAND RAPIDS - If you want to go green, you may have to go blue instead. Or at least that's what Cotton Insulation hopes. The company recycles old blue jeans into cotton insulation that's then stuffed into walls to not only reduce heat loss in winter and air conditioning loss in summer, but also noise