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<description><![CDATA[Cutting Edge Smart Growth News]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/6/2008 8:35:36 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Proposed Coal Plant Switches Fuels, Stirs Controversy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Wolverine Power proposed building a large coal plant near Rogers City, the company called their proposal the Wolverine Clean Energy Venture. The proposal excited many in the jobs-starved region and won extraordinarily quick approval. Now, with the revelation that the plant would burn more pet coke than coal, the vagueness of the company’s original proposal is dogging the company.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[10/6/2008 8:35:36 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Benzie OKs Eliminating Its Planner]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Benzie County Planning Director Dave Neiger is out of a job. Benzie County commissioners eliminated his position, saying it would help balance their budget. But the dismissal of the county’s longtime planner has outraged his supporters and raised concerns about the future of county planning and zoning. Some predict that the move will backfire by further straining troubled relationships between the county and townships using Benzie’s planning and zoning department]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[9/18/2008 12:00:49 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Benzie’s Battle Over Dual Directors Reaches a Crossroad]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Veteran Benzie County Planning Director Dave Neiger is on the verge of losing his job. A long-running dispute over whether he should keep it came to a head this week after a county committee moved to eliminate his position to help balance the county’s budget. Fallout from the proposal has been intense and has already led to the resignation of the Benzie County Planning Commission’s volunteer chairman.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[9/11/2008 12:16:42 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[McKibben: To Spread the Word, Push a Number]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bill McKibben, a foremost expert on climate change, urged more than 700 people at a rally in Traverse City to join his campaign to pressure international leaders to quickly cut the emissions that are causing global warming. He said that reducing greenhouse gases is now mankind’s most critical challenge and everyone must get involved before climate change become impossible to reverse.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[9/10/2008 10:43:25 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grand Survey: In-Town Growth Is Best]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A survey of Grand Traverse-area residents has found strong support for pointing new development toward existing communities. The survey, conducted for the citizen-based Grand Vision planning project, showed that a number of “smart growth” solutions to growth and transportation questions are very popular. The findings will be used to formulate a scorecard for participants in the project’s next phase: this fall’s “Grand Vision Decision.”]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/28/2008 9:14:31 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sacramento’s Lesson: Green Power Works]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, Sacramento had just a single source of electricity—a pricey, balky nuclear power plant owned by its municipal utility. Today, however, the utility generates almost 40 percent of its electricity from wind, geothermal, and other renewable sources. The results: Sacramento enjoys some of the cheapest power in the West, and the area is thriving.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/18/2008 9:17:10 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[4-H, Farm-to-School Meet at County Fair]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It’s county fair time, when the scent of cotton candy, smoked pork sandwiches, hay, and manure mix in the air. And, at the Northwest Michigan Fair, time-honored traditions like 4-H kids nuzzling their prize lambs at their club’s annual auction are mixing it up with a new-wave trend—budding interest in locally produced food. These teens aren’t just traditional farm kids, and the people they are selling to are not all typical 4-H livestock auction bidders, either.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/11/2008 2:46:47 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Different Shade of Green Stalls State Energy Reform]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than a year after Governor Granholm endorsed requirements that utilities sell more renewable energy, efforts to green up Michigan’s power supply—and create thousands of new “green collar” jobs—are stalled. Many clean-energy advocates say that the process reveals just how much clout the state’s two largest utilities have in Lansing.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.mlui.org/pageview.asp?fileid=17255]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/30/2008 9:59:40 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rep. Law: Let’s Turn Green to Gold]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[State Representative Kathleen Law was once part of a research team that produced gamma rays while searching for new ways to generate electricity. Today she is pushing another innovative, far less complicated way to produce power, one she said would quickly green up Michigan’s electricity supply and generate thousands of new jobs.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/28/2008 8:53:30 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[KC Food Pioneer: ‘Yes You Can!’]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This year, the Michigan Land Use Institute celebrated the publication of its fifth annual Taste the Local Difference farm food guide with a special event: A lively gathering around fine local food and drink spiced with an inspirational address about just how successful a local food economy can be, given by someone who should know]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/24/2008 9:41:41 PM]]></pubDate>
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