On Wednesdays through July, Great Lakes Echo will run a video segment expected to become a building block of a finished documentary on the greening of Flint, Mich. This week, Mama E is in a dilemma: Should she stay in Flint or leave?

On Wednesdays through July, Great Lakes Echo will run a video segment expected to become a building block of a finished documentary on the greening of Flint, Mich.

You can help by suggesting interviews, questions and angles to pursue.

This week: The city mows down a resident’s gardens.

On Wednesdays through July, Great Lakes Echo will run a video segment expected to become a building block of a finished documentary on the greening of Flint, Mich. You can help.

Transportation Services at Michigan State University is increasing its hybrid cars inventory.

The idea is to save gas and money.

Check out the short video

Watch the latest installment of the Greening of Flint documentary under production and offer your ideas for shaping it.

This week: The Kings perceive karate and farming as self-defense.

It has been a month since the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the political reverberations have finally made their way to the Great Lakes.
The Michigan Democratic Party on Monday released a video stating that drilling in the Great Lakes could lead to the same kind of disaster here. The two minute video shows graphic images of dead wildlife set against a spooky soundtrack and stark quotes. It then superimposes drilling rigs on Michigan landmarks such as the Mackinac Bridge, Grand Hotel and the RenCen. That’s …

Lansing, Mich. recently hosted a recycled art exhibit and fashion show. Purses created from recycled plastic bags and can tabs, sculptures made from chip bags and fast food cups, and a motorcycle created from washing machine parts lined the lobby of city hall. Watch the video

The Red Cedar River adds beauty to Michigan State University’s East Lansing campus.

But it can also become polluted with trash as it runs runs through a campus of more than 47,000 students.

The university’s Fisheries and Wildlife club recently hosted a day where volunteers cleaned up the river. See video.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are farm operations where large numbers of animals are raised in confined facilities. The farms themselves also tend to concentrate.

Remember how we told you that the Great Lakes brews great beers? Echo writers knew we weren’t alone in our fascination with the region’s ales, lagers, malts and stouts. But we weren’t so savvy to propose and film a TV show about them, which is what producer Matt Renner and host Amy Sherman have done.
The “Great American Brew Trail” will showcase Great Lakes breweries — about 80 percent of them in Michigan — when it premiers on PBS stations this fall. Beers in other regions will follow.
Check out the trailer, …