The automotive industry has decided to take the easy route by investing in technologies that do less bad, versus rewrite the standards. But there is hope.
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According to an executive order announced today, the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality will re-combine after about 14 years apart. The new department – dubbed the Department of Natural Resources and Environment – wraps in the functions of both departments into one consolidated unit. The change, ordered by Gov. Jennifer [...] A West Michigan event aims to map sustainability activity and drive toward a becoming a sustainable region.
It’s not often that I get to write about my own company, but here’s some news about us. MiBiz was one of two winners in the 2009 Michigan Media Clean Transportation Awareness Award given out as part of the 2009 Michigan Clean Transportation Expo & Awards. How cool! Over the past year, MiBiz really ratcheted [...] The Michigan Clean Transportation Expo and Awards is coming up on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi. The event is sponsored by the Michigan Clean Energy Coalition, NextEnergy, and the Greater Lansing Clean Cities Coalition. The West Michigan Clean Cities Coalition is an affiliate sponsor. There’s still time to nominate a company [...] We’ve assembled a team of industry leaders to participate in an advisory board for this Web site and our TBL publication.
Michigan has traditionally been a hotbed of automotive intelligence. We have the engineers and the suppliers that helped the industry live large for many years. And as the domestic industry retools and redefines itself, most people hope Michigan has a place in the future automotive industry. You’d have to be living under a rock [...] It seems like a ton of people from Michigan are in Chicago this week for the American Wind Energy Association’s conference. Here’s a video overview (don’t worry, it isn’t all Blues Traveler): Governor Granholm and Michigan Economic Development Corp. CEO Greg Main are there pitching the state’s attractive incentives, workforce and manufacturing expertise. Michigan ranked second [...] Think green manufacturing has to cost more? The message from Gary Hirshberg, CEO of New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm, is think again. Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell looked like a preacher (he is one) working the room on Earth Day at the West Michigan Clean Cities-sponsored Greening the Fleets workshop, held at the Grand Rapids Community College Leslie E. Tassell M-Tech Center. |
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