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Our Thriving Communities Program
We catalyze regional collaboration, such as northwest Michigan's Grand Vision, and encourage better local planning and zoning. We also advance transportation choices like walking, biking, public transit, and rail, and promote better housing choices for working people.
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Special Reports
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Connecting Villiages and Towns with Public Transit


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New Urbanism Arrive In Nothwest Michigan


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Citizens Agenda to Move Transit Forward in the Grand Valley Region


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Our Journalism
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Jan 10, 2012
BATA Making Big Changes

The Grand Traverse region’s largest bus system is announcing some big changes, making it easier for commuters to ride the bus to work...more

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Oct 28, 2011
Michigan Governor Ignites Spark in Transportation Reform

Governor Rick Snyder’s special message last Wednesday for a new transportation strategy in Michigan is receiving positive reviews...more

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Sept 08, 2011
Can a Family Find One-Car Happiness?

When Sharon Flesher lived in Boulder, she learned that her family really can live with only one car....more

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Aug 11, 2011
Economics of Happiness Offers a Route to a Better World

The Economics of Happiness, the final movie in the Michigan Land Use Institute’s Main Street Film Series, hits the big screen at...more

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Aug 03, 2011
Dr. Seuss, Art in the Park, and Medicine Lodge Singers

The Michigan Land Use Institute’s Main Street Film Series continues with Dr. Suess’ The Lorax and family-friendly shorts on...more

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Jul 28, 2011
Carbon Nation Finds Good Business in Climate Change Solutions

The Michigan Land Use Institute’s Main Street Film Series kicks off on Monday, Aug. 1, at the Garden Theatre, in Frankfort with...more

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Article Archive

 

The Scoop

Electric Cars Bring New Jobs, so the Built By Michigan Campaign is petitioning Lansing for strong incentives to help that industry.

The Koch Brothers Are Trying to Kill Wind Power off the New Jersey coast, according to Climate Crock of the Week.

Michigan Has Many Fine Rivers, and a new Web site, michiganrivers.com, reports the good, the bad, and the encouraging news about them.

Is Grass-fed Meat Meant Only for the Elite? Food Chain radio looks at the turn away from corn, soy, and antibiotics and toward more natural grazing.

Climate Change Is Changing Alaska, and a new book, Kivalina: A Climate Change Story, visits an Eskimo village whose days seem numbered.

Michelle Obama Wants to Eliminate ‘Food Desserts,’ and she’s got grocers promising to open 500 new food stores to combat the problem.

Duke Energy Is Closing Down Six Coal Plants, and enviros who pushed the firm to do it are taking some credit.

The Great Corn Con Is Driving Up Food Prices just to put more gas in our tanks, writes a longtime investment banker.

With More Extreme Weather Becoming the New Normal, Scientific American launches a three-part look at current research on climate change.

NYC Local Food Advocates Are Bringing Low-Income Communities more access to fresh, healthy produce.

How Noisy Is Wind Power? Here’s fresh audio/video from McBain’s Stony Corners Wind Park, plus a cost comparison between wind turbines and coal plants.

Streams Near Hudson-Area Livestock Factories Have Drug-Resistant Bacteria, according to a study by Eastern Michigan University.  

Worried about Offshore Wind Power? Then this greatest hit from The Daily Show is for you!

Bill McKibben’s Pithy ‘Don’t Connect the Dots’ Essay is now a provocative video about bad weather and global warming.

Fair Food Author and Pioneer Oran Hesterman, who visits Traverse City in the fall, has a video about his hopeful new book.

Michigan Boomers Will Have Big Mobility Problems as seniors, unless lawmakers improve public transit funding.

Farmers, Filming, and Flint, a documentary about urban agriculture in that town, is now in production.

Most Utility Chiefs Want a Strong U.S. Energy Policy because they want America to win the race for renewable energy.

The Mother Earth Water Walk Continues, and a Web site for the ongoing project has this summer’s schedule.

The Press Is Missing the Real Green Jobs Story, one of the few bright spots in the American economy.

Electric Cars and a Smart Grid can provide a quantum leap for renewables in America.

Got Tornadoes? Bill McKibben Connects the Dots in his extra-pithy Washington Post essay.

Garbage In, Electricity Out: A Novi company’s new, anaerobic, omnivorous scraps digester can power 1,500 homes.

Detroit’s Future Can Include Local Farms and Food and a New York Times visitor sees lots of confirming evidence.

Ted Turner Told a Windpower Conference that it’s time to kick some oil and gas company butt for trying to slow down wind.

MLUI’s Food and Farming Program Headlines on UpNorthTV, with our own Diane Conners, Janice Benson, and host Dave Barrons.

Michigan’s a Leader on Downtown Placemaking according to the Project for Public Spaces.

Videos by the World’s Largest Wind Turbine Firm reveal just how high-tech these giant, elegant machines are becoming.

Big Oil’s Tax Breaks Get Quite a Bashing from a Grand Rapids TV news personality.

Scholars Are Serious about Local Food, too, according to a report from a recent economic development conference.

Great Lakes Water Defender Maude Barlow’s “People’s Plan” is now online.

To Birthers and Climate Deniers, Add Windbaggers—a funny name for a head-scratching phenomenon.

Want to Protect Your Inland Lake Shoreline? Here’s how.

With High-Speed Rail, Florida’s Loss Is Michigan’s Gain—$200 million worth!

How’s that Energy Efficiency Thing Workin’ Out? Just fine, DTE Energy reports.

Wisconsin Is a Bunch of Yimbis—except for some confused lawmakers—according to a recent poll about wind power.

Talk Radio Hosts Our Glenn Puit to Chat About Families on the Edge

Sing Along to the Monsanto Rag, about genetically modified seeds, with no apologies to Country Joe and the Fish.

Bill McKibben and Al Gore Gave Barnburner Speeches at Power Shift 2011 in Washington.

Save a Trillion Bucks on Farm Subsidies, writes Mark Bittman.

Wind and Solar Power Prices Are Falling Sharply, and new wind power is now often cheaper than new coal power.

Who Should Control What We Eat? Food Chain Radio profiles a food rebellion in Maine.

You Can Help Defend Black Lake’s Rare Sturgeon through a volunteer program.

America Dropped to 3rd Place in Clean Energy Investment, behind China and Germany.

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