Echo
ArtPrize: From solar sound to four-season photography
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Recently Echo visited ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan to talk with artists who’ve put an environmental spin on their work.
Land
Retailers lose suit against Marathon Petroleum
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When the refinery bought neighboring homes to expand crude oil capacity, residents left and retailers lost them as customers, the suit claimed. They weren’t offered the same buyouts as the residents.
Land
Expanding wildland-urban interface creates new land challenges
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The growth is due to societal changes such as increased vacation, early retirement, an aging population and telecommuting.
Land
Environmentalists tell MDOT to pump the brakes on I-94 expansion
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has plans to renovate a 6.7 stretch of I-94 near Detroit.
Land
Are robot cars good for the environment?
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Experts say that could go either way and depends on who wins the transportation policy debate.
Land
Book explores mining, logging company towns of the Upper Peninsula
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Working conditions were arduous in many communities that no longer merit recognition by mapmakers.
Waste
Great Lakes states are in ecological debt
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The nation hit Ecological Deficit Day recently, thanks in part to the Great Lakes states that use more resources than they regenerate.
Air
Photo Friday: mammatus clouds
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A photo submission captures the lobe-like mammatus clouds after a Chicago storm.
Wildlife
Bringing conservation to cities
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A new book explains how what was once considered the ultimate paradox is now setting the precedent for urban development — a wildlife refuge in Detroit. The author will discuss the promise of urban conservation in Dearborn Heights Wednesday.
Recreation
Here are the Great Lakes state bike-friendly rankings
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The League of American Bicyclists released its annual bike-friendly state rankings, and two Great Lakes states broke the top 10 again.