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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.
Energy
Panel Discussion: What’s Next for Line 5?
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Environmentalists say the Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac poses a risk to the Great Lakes, and the state is looking into it. Michigan recently received a list of potential replacements for the 64-year-old pipeline.
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Vote for your favorite natural feature in the Great Lakes region
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What’s the best Great Lakes destination for natural beauty? It’s time for our readers to decide.
Fish
Do two fish contaminants create greater health threat than the worst one?
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A new study says that Great Lakes fish consumption advisories would be more restrictive if regulators considered how multiple contaminants could combine into a greater health threat.
Energy
Report lists alternatives to controversial oil pipeline beneath Mackinac Bridge
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One option has caught the interest of Michigan’s attorney general. But environmental groups aren’t pleased with any of them.
Green Gavel
Ohio contractor sent to prison in asbestos case
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He admitted improper demolition leading to the release of the hazardous air pollutant linked to respiratory diseases and cancer.
Water quality
Can’t fix waterworks without knowing how water works
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Few people can depict how water gets to the tap and where it goes after it hits the drain, an ignorance that requires a disaster to generate support to upgrade an aging system of pipes and treatment.