Podcasts
Solar-powered brewing
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Brewery Vivant takes sustainability goals to the next level with renewable energy.
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“Flint Fresh” to bring better nutrition to neighborhoods
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The food truck phenomenon in America is often seen as a novelty, literally a vehicle to offer specialty cuisine or as a mobile culinary classroom, but a new truck getting ready to roll in Flint is at the heart of a much more basic mission.
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Lansing exhibit chronicles Michigan man who “invented the outdoors”
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The knife, the ax, the compass and the matchbox. Yooper Webster Marble said that’s all you need to go deep into the woods. A new Lansing exhibit “Inventing the Outdoors” takes us on a classic Michigan experience.
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Mudpuppy love
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CurrentCast investigates a unique organism that lives on the bottom of lakes and rivers–a salamander that barks like a dog.
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Michigan’s ‘firebird’ continues its ascent from near extinction
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The Kirtland’s Warbler is an icon of northern Michigan. With a brilliant yellow breast and distinctive song, the bird makes its home in young jack pine trees. Once on the verge of extinction, a long-running conservation program is helping to restore the Kirtland’s Warbler population.
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Rare butterfly rests its wings in unique SE Michigan ecosystem
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A rare butterfly that once thrived on the Great Plains is fighting for its survival in Michigan. Current State’s Kevin Lavery braves the backcountry in search of the Poweshiek Skipperling.
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Fish slides, anyone?
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Elevators and water slides for fish may sound straight out of Dr. Seuss–but they actually exist in Michigan.
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MI environmental advocates also have entrepreneurial mission
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Every Tuesday, Current State takes a closer look at the environment and environmental news in Michigan. Today we learn about an organization that for more than 20 years has advocated legally for environmental causes.
Podcasts
Healthy ravines for healthy watersheds
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The Great Lakes and the ravines that surround them share more than just a common geographic genealogy.
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Cheers to water-friendly beers!
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Saving water and flavor is what’s on tap at a few earth-minded breweries.