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Green jobs grow again after dip
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After losing 3 percent of its “green” jobs a year earlier, Michigan became one of the fastest-growing states for environmental employment last year.
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Wind power on the rise in the Great Lakes region
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Nearly 70 percent of all new power plants built in the Great Lakes region since January 2012 use wind as an energy source, part of a nationwide trend of increasing reliance on wind power.
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Videographer captures northern Michigan winter
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Snow and Ice: A Northern Michigan Winter from Jason Whalen on Vimeo. Jason Whalen strapped on his snowshoes, loaded his camera equipment onto a sled, and set out for the snow-covered wilds of the north coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to capture the icy beauty of its winter months. “I’ve always seen pictures of the frozen waterfalls, and ice caves there, but never had the chance to go myself before,” the Lansing-based videographer said, “I had a free weekend, so I went up there to record them so that others could share in the experience. I think more people respond to video than still photos.”
Whalen’s video odyssey took him to the Eben Ice Caves near Marquette, Mich. and then to Lake Superior’s coast to film ice floating on rolling waves.
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CSI: Invasives
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Great Lakes scientists are using DNA methods to investigate invasive species.
It could help us to better understand where and if they’ll strike next.
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Mr. Great Lakes: Snow, fisheries and Earth Day
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Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
This week Kart discusses lake-effect snow, educational fishery workshops and an Earth Day grant competition. Text at Mr Great Lakes
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Urban farm seeks fish funds
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If you live in Detroit, easy access to fresh Great Lakes bluegill and catfish could be closer than you think. Just donate to Food Field’s FISHSTARTER! campaign. Noah Link and his partner, Alex Bryan, created Food Field by transforming an abandoned Detroit school site into a four-acre urban farm. Since their first full growing season in 2011, they’ve expanded to grow organic produce, produce honey, raise chickens and ducks and maintain a fruit orchard.
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Where’s the Concern? Week Nine
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Each week, Great Lakes Echo features a photo story about a different Area of Concern designated by the U.S. or Canadian governments in the Great Lakes basin.
Guess where the area is located, based on the description of the site.
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Photo Friday: Copper Harbor sunset
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The sun sets on a snowless December evening in Copper Harbor, Mich. as a freighter passes by on Lake Superior.
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Assessing risk to the Great Lakes nearshore
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More and more, I see a greater dependence on the imperfect science of risk assessment in emerging Great Lakes issues. Studied intensely for years at Harvard University and other leading institutions, risk assessment is something we deal with in many aspects of life even if we don’t stop to think about it.
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Comparing the states: Hazardous waste penalties
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Pennsylvania has the largest total dollar value of fines for facilities violating hazardous waste regulations in 2012 among the Great Lakes states, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Wisconsin has the smallest. The figures come from an EPA map that reports state compliance with regulations. The map’s dashboard allows users to choose different measures and different years. Here is the total dollar value of penalties incurred by large facilities with hazardous waste violations for each state along with the number of large facilities for each state:
Pennsylvania: $542,364; for 1,103 large facilities.