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Michigan’s annual grape wine production ranks around tenth in the nation.
the quality and quantity of this year’s wine is very good.
State officials recently visited China to explore more business cooperation, including the exporting of wine.
Michigan Highway Hazard Recovery is contracted to clean up deer and other animal roadkill in several counties across the state of Michigan. Oakland County pays about $20,000 a year on deer cleanup.
Mercury is more than just something fun to play with, according to this public service announcement from the Michigan Department of Community Health. The chemical gives off harmful fumes that can affect the central nervous system, respiratory system, and kidneys, according to health department officials. Prolonged exposure can lead to behavioral changes such as irritability, shyness, and nervousness, as well as tremors, problems with muscle coordination, loss of sensation, and difficulties with memory. “Breathing very high levels of mercury vapors can irritate the airways and lungs, causing difficulty breathing,” said Christina Bush, a State of Michigan toxicologist, “In severe cases, the lungs will start to fill with fluid, there may be nausea and vomiting, and the heart rate or blood pressure will increase. This has happened where people have intentionally heated items containing mercury and would not be typical of exposure that may occur after a mercury spill.”
A U.S. Coast Guardsman stationed in Buffalo wrote a children’s book about his adventures on the Straits of Mackinacas seen through the eyes of an adopted dog, Onyx. Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Benson began writing the book from his original home in St. Ignace, Mich. because his three daughters would often ask why he would be gone for days, according to this story from WGRZ news in Buffalo. His family now lives in Buffalo where the book has been published.
The extremes of America’s culture of excess were on display this past weekend, with the madness of holiday shopping. But do people really need all that stuff? That’s the question some students at Michigan State University set out to answer. Earlier this year a group of them at the East Lansing campus decided to live a more minimal and sustainable lifestyle. They filmed the experience. The film and project, called Thrive With Less, started as a capstone for a documentary course.
Michigan’s chestnut growers are facing the same problems other fruit growers confront this year.
The early surge of temperatures in March and the inevitable cold weather in April and May curtailed nut production, just as it did for apples and cherries.
U.S. based companies stymied from developing new energy sources in the Great Lakes region by Canadian authorities are looking for relief through the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to media reports. A wind company owned by a New York-based investment group is filing a claim for lost profits under NAFTA, Thestar.com reports. Windstream Energy LLC wants to develop a 300-megawatt wind project in eastern Lake Ontario. That project stalled after Canada’s Liberal government put a moratorium on offshore projects. Meanwhile, another American company says it will sue Canadian federal authorities under NAFTA for more than $250 million for Quebec’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the Windsor Star reports.
This video is about introducing elementary school-age children to recycling in Ohio’s Stark County.
