There is an educational effort being taken by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the state of Utah to prevent the spread of the quagga mussel. The quagga mussel is a small freshwater bivalve mollusk with a dark and white pattern along it’s shell. They are usually less than an inch long. Although small, [...]
“Worst-case scenario could result in a spill of 1.5 million gallons of light crude into the Au Sable River in eight minutes” States a report on the environmental risks of gas drilling and oil pipelines in the Au Sable River watershed. That amount is nearly twice as much oil than what leaked into the Kalamazoo [...]
Read the “Belle Isle: Fighting the silent siege” Detroit Free Press article
Wolverine’s Challenge To State’s Decision On Proposed Rogers City Coal Plant Threatens Clean Energy Jobs, Revives Financial Risk For State (via Sierra Club, Michigan Chapter) LANSING, MI—A lawsuit filed this week challenging the state’s denial of a Clean Air Act permit for a proposed costly and unneeded coal-fired power plant for Rogers City seeks to [...]
The burbot, bottom feeding fish nicknamed lawyers, are making a comback from the small number that have survived in its native waters of the Great Lakes. The species saw a huge decline in the 1950′s due to the invasive sea lamprey. Unfortunately there’s new research showing the return of the burbot may damage the multi-million [...]
Liberal Arts College to offer Master of Sustainable Business degree starting fall 2010 Aquinas College has developed a new Master of Sustainable Business (MSB) degree – the first program of its kind to be offered in the upper Midwest that will build upon the undergraduate sustainable business program already offered by the liberal arts college. [...]
Who says you have to trade speed to go green? Mission Motors, a software company of all things, may help push the green movement forward by pushing its new electric motorcycle to the 150 mph mark, a new world record for an electric motorcycle. The record was clocked at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a [...]