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Connor Smithee

Connor Smithee
Climate

Google adds Detroit to online sustainability database

By Connor Smithee | November 4, 2019

The Environmental Insight Explorer collects a city’s potential solar output, carbon emissions and long term climate outlook.

Energy

Poll: Most Ohio voters support renewable energy development

By Connor Smithee | October 18, 2019

A new George Mason University poll shows that most voters in Ohio support renewable energy development.

Echo

Among the Wonders of the Dells: A look through Wisconsin History

By Connor Smithee | October 18, 2019

Why is the waterpark capital of the world in central Wisconsin?That’s the question that caused a team at the Museum of Wisconsin Art to search for photographs to trace the history of the Wisconsin Dells.

About Great Lakes Echo

Environmental news of the Great Lakes region from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

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