Bill Schneider grows native Michigan plants and also designs ecologically focused projects such as prairie and wetland mitigation, and storm water recovery works. Continue Reading →
Beyond beauty, Michigan plants offer environmental edge
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Land
This category encompasses land-based issues. It is further segregated with tags into such issues as farm, urban redevelopment or decay, forest, mining.
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Urban walkability: Detroit’s to rise, Cleveland’s and Chicago’s to drop
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The industrial economy yields to the knowledge economy which wants to operate in the experienced economy. That puts a premium on walkable communities. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Urban, urban redevelopment
Frac sand mining ruling could affect similar Minnesota cases
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“We are aware that the issues involved in this case stir the passions of many people, but our role is limited to faithfully applying the law, whether or not that decision is popular,” the court said. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Green Gavel, Law, Mining
Best town right here in the Great Lakes region?
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Duluth, Minn., got the nod in Outside Magazine’s Best Town contest. It beat out Provo, Utah, with 55 percent of the vote in the final round. Do you agree? Is Duluth the best town in the Great Lakes states, let alone the U.S.? To get to the final showdown, in head to head competition Duluth beat out Minneapolis, Minn.; La Crosse, Wis.; Athens, Ohio; Columbia, Missouri. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Catch of the Day, Urban
Back to the farm
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A memoir of pursuing sheep dreams. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Agriculture, Art, Books, Current State, Podcasts
Above average number of wildfires predicted by summer’s end
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The increased fire incidence is expected in August and September as a long winter and late spring delayed the fire season. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Echo, Forests
Television show examines Wisconsin mine proposal
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The battle against what could be the nation’s largest open pit mine in a rural, pristine area of northern Wisconsin is now the subject of a television show. In Wisconsin’s Penokee Mountain Range just south of Lake Superior, Gogebic Taconite, or GTAC, a mining company from West Virginia, seeks to develop an open pit iron ore mine that could expand to be 22 miles long. At 7 p.m. (ET) Saturday, Al Jazeera America’s Fault Lines program will detail the local, environmental and political angles of the project. Fault Lines, co-hosted by Josh Rushing, is an investigative journalism TV show. The show can be viewed on the Al Jazeera America channel, which is available across the country on DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Dish, Verizon, Bright House Networks, among others. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Catch of the Day, Mining
Michigan crosswalk safety rules unclear, hinder walkability
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Communities are increasingly requesting “Yield to pedestrian” signs to improve walkability, but others fear the signs provide a false sense of security. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Capital News Service, transportation, Urban
Decades-long research values ecosystem services to farming, environment
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The research recently reported in BioScience magazine also shows the public’s willingness to pay for such services. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Agriculture, Climate change
Upending the basin: Name the best town in the Great Lakes
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Let’s have a real regional competition for the fairest town in the basin.
Make your case here. Continue Reading →