(NY) The New York Times – DVD packaging is getting 20 percent lighter, reducing the impact on the environment and corporate bottom lines.

(MI) Detroit Free Press – There’s still a way to travel cheaply, do things that kids and adults can enjoy together and get a feel for what the first loggers experienced when they made their way to the seemingly endless woodlands of northern Michigan in the 1870s — camping in the Pigeon River Country State Forest.

(MI) Detroit Free Press – Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama’s initiative to clean up the Great Lakes.

(MI) Detroit Free Press – Members of Congress’ Great Lakes Caucus are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to review all of British Petroleum’s emissions, after reports that a BP facility in Whiting, Ind., has been violating clean-air standards.

(MI) Muskegon Chronicle – The material in the six contaminated lagoons on the former Whitehall Leather Co. tannery site likely won’t be removed, based on comments Wednesday night by environmental consultants and state Department of Environmental Quality officials.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – A year ago, Erik Lindberg rented a boom lift with a bucket and hoisted 15 cubic yards of dirt to the roof of his north side remodeling business. In the process, he planted himself firmly in the middle of a growing urban agriculture movement.

(MI) Bay City Times – In the midst of a crummy economy, Donald L. Buchalski has found one of Michigan’s few sweet spots — the emerging solar power industry.

(MI) The Flint Journal – The under-construction former Durant Hotel may not seem like the most romantic rendezvous spot — but that’s where peregrine falcons Barry and Majestic were found nesting a few weeks ago.

(MI) Jackson Citizen Patriot – Eaton Corp. is hosting the 30th annual Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage competition today in Marshall, where college teams from around the world will race for the best fuel economy.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -No amount of burnishing will change the fact that the chemical BPA isn’t worth the risk to public health. It should be banned.