How You Can Make Your Home More Green Being a homeowner is both wonderful and challenging. Although you are responsible for everything in your home (including your yard), that gives you the right to make changes that those who rent cannot.
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How You Can Make Your Home More Green Being a homeowner is both wonderful and challenging. Although you are responsible for everything in your home (including your yard), that gives you the right to make changes that those who rent cannot.
How our plug-in electric car changed our life
How our plug-in electric car changed ourĀ life
We were surprised at how our two-year-old Nissan Leaf all-electric car changed our life.
When Rebecca and I got our 2015 Nissan Leaf in late May, 2017, we thought the biggest change in our life would be that weād never visit a gas station again.
Surprise! The most important change was something we didnāt expect at all.
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Containment: a Movie Review - Current History, Future History, Stonehenge
Containment: a Movie Review ā Current History, Future History,Ā Stonehenge
David Kraft of NEIS, āContainmentā cosponsor
Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, āContainmentā cosponsor
Sierra Club Southwest Michigan Group and Michigan Safe Energy Future recently hosted showings of the movie āContainmentā at Kalamazoo Public Library and at Lake Michigan Collegeās South Haven campus. Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Energy Information Service, represented by Kevin Kamps and David Kraftā¦
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Palisades shutdown plan gets its first Michigan Public Service Commission hearing.
Palisades shutdown plan gets its first Michigan Public Service CommissionĀ hearing.
On December 8, 2016, Entergy Nuclear and Consumers Energy announced a plan to terminate their 15-year power purchase agreement. Both companies agreed that the PPA negotiated in 2007, when Consumers sold Palisades to Entergy, should end in 2018 instead of 2022. Since Consumers is the plantās only customer, this agreement is essentially a Palisades shutdown plan.
Palisades Shutdown Plan Hearing, byā¦
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Clean-energy quick-charging stations: How Michigan should use its share of the VW settlement.
Clean-energy quick-charging stations: How Michigan should use its share of the VWĀ settlement.
Michiganās electric grid is becoming progressively cleaner as the state invests in efficiency and in solar and wind potential, resources the state already possesses, as we reduce our dependence on out-of-state fossil fuels such as coal and gas. As Michigan considers how to support clean transportation with its share of the $2 billion set aside for electric car charging from the $18 billion VWā¦
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Tiny House Part Two
Tiny House PartĀ Two
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LIVE IN A TINY HOUSE?
How large/small can you go in a tiny house and meet basic human needs?
While a tiny house maximum is often considered 400 square feet or less, what is the minimum square feet of space in a tiny house?
In our region, efficiency housing has been defined as 120 square feet for a single person and roughly double that for two people. Such housing could beā¦
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Ben's Tiny House Part 3 - More Progress at Charles and Wallace
Benās Tiny House Part 3 ā More Progress at Charles andĀ Wallace
10.04.16⦠To Be Continued.
First of all, tiny houses are not for everyone. For many single or retired people tiny homes might offer these advantages⦠(and larger tiny houses in some situations might offer these to couples as well)
Bullet recap of Tiny House Homeownership Advantages:
Makes safe space affordable from being trapped in abusive relationships.
Option for privacy when multipleā¦
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Mary Ann's Solar Installation
Mary Annās SolarĀ Installation
āMary Annās Solar Installationā by Mary Ann Renz
Photos by Tim Tesar
Here is a description of how I decided to install solar panels.
Mary Annās Solar Installation, by Mary Ann Renz. Photos by Tim Tesar.
When I was preparing to sell my house in Mt. Pleasant, the realtor had me fill out a form on which one question was āIf you were going to continue to live in the house, what changes would youā¦
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Five Easy and Delicious Ways to Eat More Vegan in 2017
Five Easy and Delicious Ways to Eat More Vegan inĀ 2017
As someone who cares about the environment, you probably already know that animal agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, deforestation, and pollution. Environmental science also tells us that eating at lower trophic levelsāin other words, eating plants, and not the animals that eat those plantsāwill always be much more efficient and preserving of the Earthās resources.
And thereā¦
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To do my part in fighting the threat to our planet, I guard against my own rationalizations, and I make sure I repay what I owe to the Earth. So can you. Here's how.
To do my part in fighting the threat to our planet, I guard against my own rationalizations, and I make sure I repay what I owe to the Earth. So can you. HereāsĀ how.
āWhat I owe the Earthā by Ben Brown
What I Owe the Earth Does what I do really matter? Iām just me! How much difference can I make? And, anyway, what debt do I owe to the planet?
Today we face a life-destroying threat, a danger more serious than the asteroid impactblamed for killing off so much life 65 million years ago. Most of us who recognize todayās threat blame a collection of forces beyondā¦
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CLIMATE ACTION is the ultimate pro-life movement.
CLIMATE ACTION is the ultimate pro-lifeĀ movement.
Reclaiming the Narrative
Mary A. Colborn, Climate Action is the Ultimate Pro-life Movement
A few years ago my sister and I cleared away an old forgotten pile of wood on our family farm. As we were moving branch after branch and stacking chunks of wood, we startled a well-camouflaged toad. It responded to our intrusion by creeping deeper into the pile. Each time we shifted the pile and uncoveredā¦
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Why I Enjoy Nature Conservation When Camping and Backpacking
Why I Enjoy Nature Conservation When Camping andĀ Backpacking
A Few Reasons Why We Should All Focus on Protecting Nature for Future Generations
With the āLeave No Traceā campaign that has been making waves across the world in the last few years, eco-friendly camping is a big deal lately.
They say that the best way to camp (and ensure that future generations will have the pleasure of experiencing the same natural beauty that you do), is to take nothing butā¦
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Permanent Palisades Shut Down Announcement: For anti-nuke activists, a celebration. Then what?
Permanent Palisades Shut Down Announcement: For anti-nuke activists, a celebration. ThenĀ what?
Is it really a permanent Palisades shut down?
In a December 8, 2016, press release, Palisades nuclear plant owner Entergy announced a permanent Palisades shut down effective October, 2018.
Long story short: Executives at Consumers decided their company was paying Palisades too much for electricity. They negotiated with Entergy, owner-operator of Palisades, to knock the last four years off theā¦
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High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal: Our Eternal Problem
Our high-level nuclear waste disposal problem: The industry calls it āclean, safe nuclear energy,ā but each plant has been manufacturing tons of waste thatās dangerously radioactive for millions of years ā forever, as we humans count time.
The experts and geniuses put the finishing touches on The Bomb and looked around and said, āWhat do we do with all this leftover stuff?ā The answer was,ā¦
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Tiny House, a Strategy to Heal the Earth - Part One
Tiny House, a Strategy to Heal the Earth ā PartĀ One
Tiny house photo: HGTV
Tiny House Part One ā Why Consider a Tiny House?
Housing, food production, and transportation account at this moment for some 60-70% of irreplaceable damage to the planet. Few individual citizens are asking themselves if they can take dramatic enough steps to reduce their own personal impacts to zero or even reverse their impact on climate change. With current technology, iā¦
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Bee Rescue Project - Part Two
Bee Rescue Project ā PartĀ Two
Previously, in Part One of Benās Bee Rescue Project
On the evening of Saturday, June 4, Peopleās Food Co-op manager Chris Dilley notified Ben of a swarm of bees collecting in a spot that would be hazardous for bees, employees, and customers. Ben coaxed the swarm into a box and carried them home to the backyard at Fletcher House. Part One of Benās absorbing account of his concerns and the lengthsā¦
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Bee Rescue Project - Part One
Bee Rescue Project ā PartĀ One
Bee Rescue Project: Swarm to Hive Bee Rescue Diary, Saturday, June 4, 2016
Near the back garden at Peopleās Food Co-op, Kalamazoo ā not the safest home for bees. Ben Brown has had experience with bees, so General Manager Chris Dilley gave Ben a bee rescue mission.
My friend Chris Dilley, General Manager at Peopleās Food Co-op of Kalamazoo, called me. His staff reported a bee swarm forming at theā¦
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