Cost to be big factor in 'talking' cars acceptance: U.S. transport chief (Reuters)
Source: Xtra News
Ann Arbor :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 11:48:36 -0700 | green-news
Cars that "talk" to each other to avoid crashes or traffic jams, like those being tested here, will save lives but the cost of the systems will determine consumers' acceptance of such technology, the U.S. transportation secretary said on Tuesday....
Report card: Great Lakes still have big problems
Source: Chicago-Sun Times
Traverse City :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 11:26:22 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) A U.S.-Canadian agency says efforts to clean up the Great Lakes have yielded mixed results over the past 25 years and big problems remain. The International Joint Commission advises both federal governments on issues affecting shared waterways.
Spring Awakening In My Roadside Garden
Posted by: diadipaolo
Ann Arbor :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 09:30:46 -0700 | green-news
After being cooped up all winter, I am always itching to get outside and do spring clean-up in my garden as soon as the weather gets warm. The first thing that I like to do is pick up all the...
EPA, other US agencies expand urban waters effort
Source: Sacramento Bee
Grand Rapids :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-09 21:31:43 -0700 | green-news
The Environmental Protection Agency, the White House and other federal departments announced Friday that they are expanding a program for restoring and improving urban waterways nationwide. The Urban Waters Federal Partnership now operates in seven locations.
Verizon to invest $100 mn in solar, fuel cell tech
Source: The Economic Times
Garden City :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 05:52:07 -0700 | green-news
Verizon said on Tuesday it plans to invest $100 million in solar power and fuel cells at 19 facilities in seven US states to cut its carbon footprint and make its operations more resilient to storms and other disasters. The...
Hunting Ranches Resist Efforts to Curb Feral Swine
Source: The New York Times
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-27 21:35:39 -0700 | green-news
At first he thought it was a deer, perhaps the big-antlered buck he had seen before and hoped to bag someday. Multimedia But the closer Steve Davenport got, the more unfamiliar the looming dark mass in the cornfield behind his...
DEQ plans public meetings to discuss 'fracking'
Source: SF Gate
Traverse City :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-27 02:07:47 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) Michigan environmental regulators plan three public meetings in the coming week to discuss what officials say are widespread misconceptions about oil and gas development, and critics of a process known as "fracking" say they'll be ready. The Department...
Panel: Structures may be needed to boost lakes
Source: SF Gate
Traverse City :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 16:11:18 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) A U.S.-Canadian panel urged both nations Friday to consider installing water retention structures to boost levels on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, which fell to their lowest point on record in January and have lagged well below their...
Standing tall
Source: The Hutchinson News
Garden City :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 17:21:09 -0700 | green-news
When Jim Smith first saw a Plains Cottonwood tree in a grove outside of Plevna, he was stunned...The tree once ranked as the biggest in Kansas, based on a point system that uses circumference, height and crown spread. But lightning...
Group kicks off planting of ancient tree clones
Source: Boston.com
Kentwood :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 02:33:08 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) A team led by a nurseryman from northern Michigan and his sons has raced against time for two decades, snipping branches from some of the world's biggest and most durable trees with plans to produce clones that could...
3 state departments joining Mich. Earth Day event
Source: SF Gate
Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 02:27:04 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) Three state government departments are participating in an Earth Day observance that's expected to draw thousands of students, teachers and others to Lansing on Thursday. The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Constitution Hall. It's...
How Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL
Source: Mother Jones
Detroit :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 05:15:23 -0700 | green-news
Want to make sense of the feud between pipeline activists and "hippie-punching" moderates?...Press On February 17, more than 40,000 climate change activistsmany of them quite youngrallied in Washington, DC, to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport dirty tar...
GM unveils its new electric motor in White Marsh
Source: Baltimore Sun
Ann Arbor :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 11:27:23 -0700 | green-news
EDT , April 16, 2013 General Motors officially launched production of a new electric motor the first manufactured domestically by an automaker at its White Marsh plant on Tuesday. It's a culmination of sorts, three years after GM announced that...
Analysis: Rethinking the lithium-ion battery revolution over cost, safety
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Troy :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-09 23:04:28 -0700 | green-news
Sony's lithium-ion battery for its Vaio laptops is seen during a photo opportunity at its showroom in Tokyo November 28, 2012. For nearly two years, a team of former Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius engineers has been working on the...
Wildlife hurt -- and helped -- by cold, snowy winter
Source: Star Tribune
Grand Rapids :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-06 15:55:04 -0700 | green-news
Last April, Minnesota's deer, pheasants, turkeys and other wildlife thrived after emerging from a mild, almost nonexistent winter. It was so warm, Leech, Vermilion and Rainy lakes were ice-free by the first week in April. Today, anglers are still ice...
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