GRAND RAPIDS ? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is hosting a luncheon program on cause marketing and social purpose October 14 at Amway Corporate Headquarters. Featured speakers include Samuel Shiroff, Vice President Business + Social Responsibility for Edelman, and Debra Kalmbach, Manager of Global Corporate Citizenship at Amway. For more than two decades, Edelman
COPEMISH ? Contractors Building Supply, which has been a provider of energy efficient windows and wind turbines for years, now has gone into the solar-panel business in a big way. On Oct. 3 CBS will host a ribbon cutting on its 15,000 square foot manufacturing plant in this Northwest Michigan community that will assemble solar
LANSING ? The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council said a draft report released last week by the state showed that Michigan could boost its Renewable Portfolio Standard without sacrificing electric reliability. Current law calls for all electric utilities in the state must generate 10 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2015. Mi-EIBC praised
NOVI ? Thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors packed the Suburban Showcase this week for the Battery Show, which this year added the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo. The show, which began life four years ago in California, was moved to Michigan because of the state?s strong engineering community, said Marketing Manager Blanca
ANN ARBOR - Meadowlark Energy and Neighborhood Roofing are partnering to install a local home?s new roof with a unique solar shingle developed by Dow Solar in Midland. The owners of the home, located in Ann Arbor?s Old West Side neighborhood, were pioneers of solar in the late ?70?s, and badly needed a new roof.
ANN ARBOR - The Downtown Development Authority, after installing 18 electric vehicle charging stations in downtown Ann Arbor 18 months ago, is now looking at adding more. Dave Konkle, the DDA?s energy programs director, told Ann Arbor.Com that the stations are getting roughly 80 percent use each day. Because the 18 charging stations were funded
GRAND RAPIDS ? For researchers, chemists, engineers, industry CEOs, students, educators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, the Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference Oct. 23-24 provides an excellent opportunity to hear and share ideas on how we can best "green up" Michigan through green chemistry and engineering. Conference attendees will learn how green chemistry and engineering not
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved a power purchase agreement between DTE Electric Company and the Big Turtle Wind Farm to be constructed in Huron County. The project slated to contain more than 50 percent Michigan-sourced content in terms of material, components, logistics and labor, the commission said in a statement.
DETROIT ? Solar energy technology company, GreenLancer.com, has unveiled its Assembly Line for quicker, more accurate solar engineering project documents. What this means is contractors can now order the entire spectrum of documents needed to take a project from feasibility through construction through GreenLancer?s e-commerce platform. "We've hit perhaps our most crucial milestone yet ?
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researchers Thursday released a series of reports that content while considerable natural gas reserves are believed to exist in the state and high-volume hydraulic fracturing has the potential to help access them, possible impacts to the environment and to public health must be addressed. Though modern high-volume hydraulic fracturing