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MONDAY MASHUP: Spotting Michigan lighthouses
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A map made by the Michigan Lighthouse Fund has information for more than 100 structures along Lake Michigan, Superior and Huron.
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MONDAY MASHUP: Michigan offers online hunting information
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A new Michigan online service helps hunters streamline information-gathering. The state’s Mi-Hunt program provides information such as the location of public land open to hunting.
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Monday mashup: Matching gardeners and potential gardens
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Sharedearth.com is a new Web site where gardeners post requests for land to grow gardens and land owners post their available land to share.
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Monday Mashup: Finding amphibians with sounds of spring
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Surveyors in the Great Lakes states are poised this spring to count frogs and toads by listening to their songs. It is a chance for volunteers to document amphibian declines and discover new populations. Find out how to count.
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MONDAY MASHUP: Great Lakes Music Map
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By Haley Walker
Nov. 16, 2009
(Editors note: Make your case for a Great Lakes song in the comments and we’ll update this map.)
Becoming a successful musician didn’t require Timothy Monger to move to Los Angeles or New York. Brighton, a southeastern Michigan city of 6,000, is where he was first inspired. It is where he grew up and the place he stayed near. The dream of musical fame often pursued on the East and West coasts was not as great an influence as the Great Lakes – the Third Coast.
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MASHUP: Bioenergy picking up steam in Great Lakes region
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More and more bioenergy plants are fueling sustainable energy efforts in Great Lakes states, according to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory BioFuels interactive map. Biofuels and biopower plants, which produce energy from landfill gas, wood and municipal solid wastes, roughly equal the number of power plants run on wind and water, according to the mashup. More than 50 plants in Wisconsin, Illinois and southern Michigan run on gas produced by microorganisms that break down landfill material. Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio each have a handful of biopower plants fueled by wood. And about a dozen Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana plants convert municipal solid waste into ethanol.
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New vessels to advance Great Lakes research
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Two new research vessels built in Cleveland will aid U.S. Geological Survey researchers who study fish in Lakes Erie and Ontario.
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Our favorite reader comments of 2010
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Annually the Echo staff collects our favorite comments of the previous year.
For the next three days we will publish a sample of the reader reactions that our reporters enjoyed in 2010.
Here’s the start:
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Top Great Lakes Echo headlines of 2010
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What do carp, walruses, toilets, lazy journalism, sexy cardinals, beer, fish fights and phone books have in common?
They are all fodder for the Echo staff’s favorite headlines of 2010.