Speaker event: Cultivating creative culture at Cranbrook
Source: MiLiveMiTimes.com, 4/24/2008
Lookin' for a discussion about how SE Michigan's cultural institutions
can position the region as a creative hotspot using social media? Well,
look no further. Join Nettie Boivin, Media Mix Director of
BrainGain, and Lori Laurent Smith, Group Director of Global New Business for
Orgainic, Inc. for an evening of light refreshments and heavy talk at the DeSalle Auditorium on the lower level of
Cranbrook Art Museum.
Rail study between Howell and Ann Arbor leaves the station
Source: The Ann Arbor News, 4/24/2008
The commuter line between Howell and Ann Arbor is inching closer and
closer. A study, important to the life of the project, is gearing up
now that the Livingston County Board of Commissioners has approved a
$15,000 contribution that will go toward the $150,000 cost of the study.
Mass transit massing up
Source: Crain's Detroit Business, 4/24/2008
More talk, and more talk, and more talk. The private backers of the
mystery transit line up Woodward are meeting with the public organizers
of the transit line (currently being studied) that will run from Hart
plaza to the State Fairgrounds.
Wayfinding signage in Ferndale for the wayfaring stranger
Source: Mirror Newspapers, 4/24/2008
Not sure where some of Ferndale's historical sights are? Well, just
wait until next summer. Ferndale was granted $120,000 to improve
signage pointing to historical buildings and cultural attractions.
The D draws comparisons to Pop City
Source: Detroit Free Press, 4/24/2008
Detroit's crystal ball might be Pittsburgh. The city of steel isn't the city of steel any more. The industry feel out, they lost population, and the city hit hard times. Now, they're pulling themselves out.
Sound familiar?
4th generation autoworker paints tribute to Ford's F-series
Source: Detroit Free Press, 4/23/2008
Tom Colaluca is following in his father's, grandfather's,
great-grandfather's, and great-great grandfather's foot steps as an
autoworker for
Ford. And he's taken it a step further by painting a mural commemorating the
F-series pickup, and his family's legacy, on an empty space on the old Dearborn Glass Plant.
Evironmentally friendly options at DTE Energy
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 4/17/2008
DTE Energy, through a program called
GreenCurrents, provides 2.2 million electric customers the option of choosing environmentally friendly renewable energy for their homes and buinessess. Right now, 8,000 customers have jumped on board since last April. GreenCurrents has become one of the fastest growing voluntary renewable energy programs in the country.
Most brownfield grants go to Michigan
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 4/17/2008
Of course, Michigan wishes it didn't have so many of these waste sites, but, at least the state is getting help with them.
The EPA awarded 19
brownfield grants, equalling $8 million, to the state of Michigan. The 19 grants were the most received by any state inside the Great Lakes region.
3rd annual tree sale in Eastern Market
Source: The Greening of Detroit, 4/17/2008
Ok, so, it's safe to say the snow is gone - just don't say it too loudly, you never know what could happen. And now, in celebration of spring and everything green, the Greening of Detroit will be holding it's 3rd annual tree sale in Eastern Market in Shed #6 on April 19, from 9 a.m. to noon.
iTunes now carries UM lectures
Source: Detroit Free Press, 4/17/2008
If you missed that lecture, just go to iTunes. The University of Michigan joins 40 other university who participate in
iTunes U - a branch of the apple creation that offers lectures (audio and video) to audiences across the globe through the iTunes Store free of charge.
Michigan's blather, Michgan's poetry
Source: New York Times, 4/10/2008
Thomas Lynch, local writer and funeral home director, watched the
University of Michigan's symphony orchestra play Carnegie Hall. The
music, he says, was moving and the night was brilliant, but Michigan's
issues - good and bad - didn't stray from his mind.
Gm Volt design takes shape
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 4/10/2008
GM's
lithium-ion battery powered car, the
Volt, is moving right along. They've nailed down a design that looks a lot like their concept they showed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
From a cows stomach to your gas tank... potentially
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 4/10/2008
MSU scientists may have found a
easier way to turn corn plants into fuel, but it's not easy to get to.
Inside the stomach of a cow is a bacteria and inside that bacteria is
an enzyme and this enzyme is the key.