Waste
Landfills line lakeside landscape
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Growth of cement plant dramatically illustrated with contrasting photos.
Energy
Michigan utilities: Smart money on smart meters
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They eliminate meter readers, help shift demand and address outages more quickly.
Air
Software tracks smoke from forest fires
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Much like a weather-forecasting model, it calculates changes in air and soil temperatures and wind speed to help fire managers determine where the smoke is headed.
Nearshore
Goosebuster and BirdXPeller fight disease from bird droppings
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It’s an aerial defense of human health.
Energy
Michigan League of Conservation Voters scores lawmakers on environment
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Scorecard ranks lawmakers, identifies priority votes.
Nearshore
New Ohio water coalition to poll public
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A coalition of Ohio farm, industry, government and environmental groups is rolling out a poll next week to assess which water issues are most important to the public. The new group is called Healthy Water Ohio or HwO. Its mission is to improve water supply, quality and treatment. The group’s steering committee will use the poll and focus groups to plan how to resolve Ohio water problems within the next 20-30 years, said John Stark, freshwater director for The Nature Conservancy. Because the eight counties along Lake Erie generates $38 billion in tourism for Ohio each year, HwO is concerned about water shortages, said Larry Fletcher,the executive director of Lake Erie Shores & Islands, a travel agency that belongs to the coalition.
Land
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.