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Once a hub for building cities, Muskegon could become one for taking them apart
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Local officials investigate city’s potential as the center of a deconstruction industry. It’s deep water port could play a role.
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Recycling your home: Can structural wood be reused for the same purpose?
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The average abandoned home in Michigan contains about enough lumber to fill two school buses.
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Reclaim Detroit finds treasure in blighted homes
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Detroit hosts 75 percent of all vacant houses in Michigan. Each of more than 183,000 vacant homes holds treasures to be reclaimed.
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Defining domicology: Study of practices and consequences of abandoning buildings
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What’s in a name? For domicologists it signifies dawning awareness of a wasteful culture–and an emerging industry.
Endangered wildlife
Wastewater deadzone kills mussels
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An extreme example in an Ontario river shows these mollusks are more sensitive to pollution than we knew.
Detroit
New book highlights Detroit’s overlooked streetcar history
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Southeast Michigan author Niel Lehto digs through old case files and newspapers to deliver a book detailing the rise and fall of Detroit’s streetcar industry and its impact on the city’s historical development.
Forests
Emerald ash borers may increase crime, study says
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Researchers say tree loss plays a role in street crime.
Catch of the Day
Rats rejoice for warm winters
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Windsor fights rat-ocracy as Ontario’s seventh rattiest city.
Commentary
Urban advocates make impact out of the spotlight
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These urban advocates are among the many people who toil quietly on behalf of the environment of the Great Lakes region.
Capital News Service
Lead poisoning is statewide, help is not
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Federal authorities offer a handful of grants each year to provide lead abatement services, but because the competition is so fierce, they go to bigger metropolitan areas. Rural communities are left to fend for themselves to address lead problems that cause a myriad of serious health effects.