MANISTEE - Joan's Company has an innovative green friendly solution to keeping your house warmer in those very cold Michigan winters - solar window warmers. Joan also has other energy efficient and very low cost ways to keep your toes warm as well. Lean all about it in this special GreenTech edition of News Maker
MANISTEE - An Ann Arbor architectural firm is designing the first green-certified restaurant in the United States, complete with LED lighting, eco friendly heating and cooling and much more. Best of all, it's located in Michigan, in Rochester. To learn more, listen to this GreenTech edition of News Maker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
LANSING - Armed with a 12-foot tall effigy of Sen. Patricia Birkholz (R-Saugatuck) as puppeteer to three of her colleagues in the Senate and a 20-foot tall inflatable model of a coal fired plant, environmental groups staged a public outcry in front of the Capitol Tuesday against the Senate's energy plan. Terry Miller, chair of
MANISTEE - Eclipse Distributing, at the June Michigan Energy Fair, demonstrated a line of energy efficient, yet environmentally friendly stoves that burn pellets, wood, biodiesel and other sources of energy. To find out more, listen to this GreenTech edition of News Maker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
MANISTEE - Standale Lumber has created an insulated log to make a more energy efficient log home. The yet unnamed product, dubbed the Buzz Log at the Michigan Energy Fair, is just one of many ways Standale Lumber can help homeowners and businesses use less energy to heat and cool their buildings. Get all the
MANISTEE - Mary Bigelow, an exhibitor at the Michigan Energy Fair, also will help businesses and homeowners figure out what alternative energy methods, products and services are right for them. She�??s also the coordinator of a monthly mixer for the green tech players in the greater Grand Rapids area. To learn more, listen to the
MANISTEE - Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association Executive Director Jennifer Alverado discusses what her organization is and does and how it lobbies for more renewable energy standards in the Michigan Legislature. GLREA just wrapped up its annual Energy Fair at the Manistee County Fairgrounds. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - The Michigan Planning Consortium, created Tuesday by the Public Service Commission, is charged with trying to find the most efficient way to ensure the state has sufficient power in the coming years. The consortium (case No. U-15590) would include a variety of representatives on the supply side of the power equation, including the
LANSING - The Great Lakes Compact and ensuing water withdrawal legislation are officially out of the hands of the Legislature as the House wrapped up its work on the legislation Thursday. That follows work completed by the Senate the day prior on the legislative package. The House concurred in Senate changes to the bills and
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Strategic Alliance has named Ken Freestone full-time Green Infrastructure Project Manager. Freestone had been interim project manager since January. Freestone had the full support of the Green Infrastructure Leadership Council, a group of 30 individuals representing various organizations and interests from the eight-county West Michigan region who are leading