Michigan Looks Forward and Sees a New, Blue Economy
Business and government leaders in Southeast Michigan want to move beyond the green economy to a blue one, leveraging the state’s plentiful freshwater access for its economic advantage.
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Business and government leaders in Southeast Michigan want to move beyond the green economy to a blue one, leveraging the state’s plentiful freshwater access for its economic advantage.
The video above and corresponding transcript below are a Q&A author James G. Workman did with the book’s publishers, Walker & Company.
Circle of Blue’s senior editor, Keith Schneider, lays the backdrop for the climate negotiations, highlighting the United States’ shortfalls.
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Two prominent gas industry executives have directly addressed one of the key environmental concerns surrounding the expansion of natural gas development by calling for the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. The statements – made last week by Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon and Range Resources CEO John Pinkerton – […]
Rigged feasibility study shows desperation for new surface reservoirs.
A small Indiana town is slated for cleanup as an EPA Alternative Superfund Site.
Dirty legacy contaminates groundwater of an Indiana town.
Pressed by growing urban populations, drier and warmer climates and the need to fortify supplies stretched by the increasing worldwide thirst, metropolitan and national governments on five continents are building record numbers of industrial plants to use a nearly alchemic technology to produce drinking water from the sea.
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into […]
Protection for 2.1 million acres of land and 1,000 miles of rivers.
While the recent UNESCO Water Report encourages stakeholders to climb out of their respective ideological boxes, a packaging innovator from Michigan reassures consumers boxes aren’t so bad after all. As it turns out, drinking water packaged in boxes might be the happily sustainable medium for those unlikely to sacrifice the portable, disposable commodity. Benjamin Edgar, […]
A stagnant layer of unpotable water is all that remains of Tampa’s Bill Young Reservoir.