If you've been contemplating a solar system for your home or small business, stream the recording of Groundwork's recent webinar to learn how you can receive, through our Access MI Solar program, a 10% discount on your solar panels...
Articles by Jeff Smith
POWER UP: Help Your Electric Co-Op Embrace Clean Energy
Rural electric co-ops exert a great deal of influence in shaping the future of renewable energy in northern Michigan. This 1-hour webinar, FREE, will provide terrific background on electric co-ops and how they work, and will also offer tips and advice for shaping the...
Such a Lively Market Mission
The best grants result not only in the immediate fulfillment of a grant obligation, but also result in new good things that follow on from that original investment. This is a story about the very good things that are following from a Building Resilient Communities...
Rail Is on the Rise in State and Nation
Photo: We can dream ... passenger rail in many nations is fast, smooth and affordable. Italian train station pictured. (Legendary Orient Express train at right.) The year 1888: the Washington Monument opens to the public, the National Geographic Society is founded,...
De-Escalating the Conversation Around Siting Renewable Energy
An interview with Dr. Sarah Mills, zoning and siting researcher. Interview by Jeff Smith, Communications Director Dr. Sarah Mills has studied local issues relating to siting renewable energy infrastructure both as a student and now as Director of Graham's Center...
What’s on Tap for Our September Culinary Medicine Trainings
Since 2014, Groundwork has been hosting gatherings—roughly one every 18 months—to explore and promote the idea of deploying culinary medicine as a way to address some of the most challenging diet-related diseases facing our people as individuals and facing our nation...