BP's Gulf of Mexico oil fail began with a (preventable?) explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Endbridge's Kalamazoo River oil fail stemmed from a lengthwise rip in a (deteriorating?) length of pipeline.
Now the boys in Mercer County, PA are just casually pumping the crude directly into the waterway.
One result of all these "spills" and "accidents" is the Foes of Frackin and Fossil Fuels turning up the rhetoric in the Great Lakes State.
Jim Olson, one of the Midwest's leading environmental attorneys, warns Michigan is at risk of becoming the Water Plunderland without a more cautious approach to natural gas extraction.
And the state chapter of Clean Water Action launched the Countdown to Catastrophe campaign to ban drilling in the Great Lakes.
"The Countdown" seems a bit sensational. But so does the continuing pattern of inexplicable fuel follies (BP again) slowing restoration of American waterways.
Righteous waterfront development for Buffalo
Buffalo's ArtVoice recently published an interesting Q&A with the head of that city's waterfront redevelopment effort. But it's the local record exec who advances the truly aspirational thinking in a small sidebar to the story:
"Let’s take a million dollars, two million dollars, and do an international search for the Frederick Law Olmsted of the 21st century and design the preeminent urban park."
"Let’s take a million dollars, two million dollars, and do an international search for the Frederick Law Olmsted of the 21st century and design the preeminent urban park."
Flint on Fox
This Fox Business Exclusive interviews Flint, MI Mayor Dayne Walling and efforts to solve the city's financial bind. The Mayor says he's already auctioned off his car.
Kalamazoo River on Colbert Report
Stephen Colbert last night speculated on the source of Michigan's oil fail.
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Oil "spills" in Great Lakes too
Yet another "worst ever" environmental calamity, this one in Michigan waters. The wildlife rescue is organizing.
If a wind farm is built in Lake Erie ...
... this is what the view could like from the Cleveland coast, according to the Ohio Office of Coastal Management, which has gathered an enormous amount of information on turbine siting in the area.
Thanks to David Beach at GreenLakeBlueCity for the informative post sharing this info.
Thanks to David Beach at GreenLakeBlueCity for the informative post sharing this info.
Birthing batteries
Andy Grove recently pointed out that the U.S. lost its competitive advantage in lithium ion battery production 30 years ago.
Now Jason Plautz blogs over at NYTimes about how America finally is birthing the industry with fantastic tax incentives.
Michigan and Ohio are sited as leading indicators of the trend.
Now Jason Plautz blogs over at NYTimes about how America finally is birthing the industry with fantastic tax incentives.
Michigan and Ohio are sited as leading indicators of the trend.
Improving the Rust Belt jurisdiction
Writer Alexis Madrigal sat down with Braddock, PA Mayor John Fetterman and produced this vignette for the Atlantic on How to Bring Back the Rust Belt.
Around the 7:50 mark Mayor Fetterman joins the growing chorus of Midwesterners who aspire to reclaim and save the meaning of Rust Belt:
"I want to reach a point where the term "Rust Belt" loses it's pejorative status and actually becomes synonymous with opportunity."
Around the 7:50 mark Mayor Fetterman joins the growing chorus of Midwesterners who aspire to reclaim and save the meaning of Rust Belt:
"I want to reach a point where the term "Rust Belt" loses it's pejorative status and actually becomes synonymous with opportunity."
Dear Cleveland,
This Reason series is interesting. But let's not read too much into LeBron's leaving. His circumstances are a bit different than "half of Cleveland's population."
Chicago's (Not) Sanitary and Ship Canal
According to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Reporter Dan Egan's latest investigative piece Chicago's water strategy is to siphon off Lake Michigan and shit in the Gulf Coast:
Chicago has been treating Lake Michigan like a giant toilet tank since it engineered a crude sewer system to suck from the lake about 6 billion gallons of water per day, a flow big enough to drain a body of water the size of Lake Winnebago in a single summer.
You can think of that colossal water grab as a super-size flush, inside a continent-sized commode. Chicagoland's raw sewage once plunged into the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, and that canal whooshed the Windy City stew into the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico, Chicago's toilet bowl.
Chicago has been treating Lake Michigan like a giant toilet tank since it engineered a crude sewer system to suck from the lake about 6 billion gallons of water per day, a flow big enough to drain a body of water the size of Lake Winnebago in a single summer.
You can think of that colossal water grab as a super-size flush, inside a continent-sized commode. Chicagoland's raw sewage once plunged into the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, and that canal whooshed the Windy City stew into the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico, Chicago's toilet bowl.
Edison on Time
Time's latest cover package explores how Ohio-born Thomas Edison helped invent the American way of innovation. His To Do lists certainly set a high bar for aspiring inventors.
Production = prosperity
In this recent Hardball segment, MSNBC's Chris Matthews says America must become a nation that builds things again. He seizes on high speed rail around the 1:20 mark.
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What does Detroit...
...need in the next 5 years? Light rail. Light rail. Light rail.
Vid via producer Tom Hendrickson and Model D - Happy 5th!
Vid via producer Tom Hendrickson and Model D - Happy 5th!
Superior streets make sense
Complete Streets legislation passed unanimously out of the Michigan House Transportation Committee this morning. Now on to the Senate.
Thanks to Let's Save Michigan for the vid.
Thanks to Let's Save Michigan for the vid.
Flint is 20 and 30 years behind...
...Mayor Walling says in this latest Greening of Flint short. Curbside recycling coming soon, though.
What is Minneapolis doing...
... that Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland and countless other Great Lakes cities aren't?
This graphic was part of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel package exploring the link between talent and competitiveness. The investigative report includes audio clips of insights from twenty-somethings, several options for action offered by experts and numerous pages of interesting reader reaction.
This graphic was part of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel package exploring the link between talent and competitiveness. The investigative report includes audio clips of insights from twenty-somethings, several options for action offered by experts and numerous pages of interesting reader reaction.
USA in your Chevrolet
What? No clip of Bob Seger singing "Out in the backseat of my 60 Chevy..." Shame on you NBC.
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