This week we want to show you how great solar power can be in Michigan, if SB 438 is drastically improved-or that solar will do OK if senators just throw that bad bill out with the cat litter…
GROUNDWORK News
A Ride to Rescue Fresh Foods
The Grand Traverse area has a program dedicated to rescuing usable food from heading to the landfill and supporting families who need food on their table. Food Rescue, a project of Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan, is the bridge that connects surplus and about-to-expire foods from retailers and farmers to food pantries and meal sites.
Stanford’s Jacobson: How to Get 100% Clean Energy by 2050
The Stanford professor, who’s appeared on the David Letterman Show, leads a research team that’s figuring out what every country on Planet Earth-and every state in the Union-must do reach 100-percent clean, renewable energy by 2050. That’s a major key to slowing climate change.
Senators’ Clean Energy Summer School: Lesson No. 3
We’re schoolin’ you so you can school your state senator this summer on clean energy. By the time they’re back from their break, we want senators to see how lousy energy reform bills SB 437 & 438 are-and how to improve them.
Senators’ Clean Energy Summer School: Lesson No. 2
It’s time for another lesson here at our tuition-free, unaccredited, but completely credible MI Senators’ Clean Energy Summer School! We’re training you up to convince your state senator to transform SB 437 and 438 from their current, flat-out flunkiness into Best In Class clean energy legislation when lawmakers get back to Lansing in September. So…let’s get to it!
New wind energy contracts great for region
Last week was a good one for clean, renewable energy in our town. Traverse City Light & Power signed a contract for more power from a planned wind farm in the Thumb. The contract adds 3.6 megawatts of wind power to the public utility’s energy supply-enough to power about 1,000 homes for a year.