Wildlife

Month in Review: Icy waters and carp fatigue

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At the end of each month, Current State  check in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the basin. For this Great Lakes Month in Review, Gary focuses on ice cover and Asian carp fatigue. Wilson last spoke with Current State after the Army Corps’ study on Asian carp in the Great Lakes was released. Wilson says that carp fatigue has set in, meaning that Asian carp reports are in the news so frequently that people tend to tune it out. Great Lakes Month in Review: Ice cover, Asian carp and Federal funding by Great Lakes Echo

Water

Mr. Great Lakes: Algae pics, Clean Energy Roadmap and Asian carp comments

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Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.  
Jan. 10, 2014 – Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) – Friday EDITION – Q-90.1 FM Delta College Public Radio by jeffkart

This week, Kart discusses a project to gather algae photos, Michigan’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Roadmap project and a study about Asian carp. Text at Mr. Great Lakes

Echo

Thriving with less this holiday season

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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.

Echo

Michigan restaurant puts local first

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Six of the top 10 trends of 2012 listed by the National Restaurant Association focus on locally sourcing food and sustainability. Michigan restaurants are following suit, using tasty dishes to remind residents of the state’s agricultural assets. Echo’s Emanuele Berry takes us farm to table.