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Success means reducing waste and dumping fees while creating a new revenue stream.
The research is also spurred by consumers who value alternatives to petroleum-based building blocks of other products.
Michigan officials are asking residents to help shoot and kill 13,500 mute swans.
After a rash of university bans, bottled water manufacturers say student protestors should tackle bigger problems than banning their product on college campuses.
Chemicals used for more than 60 years in carpet, furniture, clothing, cardboard and Teflon are showing up in the eggs of Great Lakes birds.
The population of Michigan’s state tree has reduced drastically the past two centuries.
But ecologists are trying to repopulate it despite significant hurdles.
Is there a Great Lake that is best? Maybe.
That’s certainly fodder for partisan bickering. But perhaps each lake should be recognized for the best of something. So tell us.