We’re working to replace coal power with new jobs in efficiency and clean energy, organizing local involvement in curbing global climate change, via the citizens group, TC-350, and promoting protection of Great Lakes water and our other precious natural resources.
Brian Beauchamp
Program
Policy Specialist
brian@mlui.org
20-20 by 2020: A Clear Vision for Clean Energy Prosperity PDF
Traverse City Light & Power's push for renewable energy should include much stronger commitments to energy efficiency and local, entrepreneurial wind and solar power projects-keys to lowering electric bills and creating new jobs in the region.
Fever of Development, Frontier of Recovery PDF
The sale of an expanse of globally rare, undeveloped Lake Michigan beach and dunes at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River signals an unmistakable and possibly momentous shift in the Saugatuck and Douglas real estate markets. An analysis of demographic and market trends affecting southern Lake Michigan shoreline communities and recommendations to protect the environment and a small town way of life.
Water Works TextPDFOrder
Water Works describes a new way of thinking about water resource development that is gradually and organically emerging in the Great Lakes Basin. It reduces costs, safeguards waterways, and strengthens the region's economic competitiveness. The challenge and responsibility for the region's civic and business leaders is to understand this movement and establish an atmosphere in which it can flourish.
Jul 20, 2010
TCL&P Hits Renewables Reset Button With its biomass proposal on the ropes, TCL&P is starting over on its clean and renewable energy plan by inviting the public to...more
May 05, 2010
Green Power for Sale! Dave Slifka wants to be a clean-energy entrepreneur in Michigan, but no one seems to want what he’s trying to sell: power from wind...more
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