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The Alamo? Not so much, but bike sharing service in San Antonio was the real...

This woman does not come with the bikeOur trip to San Antonio would have been much, much different if not for their outstanding new Bcycle service, which allows people to check out bicycles and drop...

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Catching up: Michigan River News; North America's awesome-ist marathon river...

Geez. Looks like we've got some catching up to do!In June, the Michigan Environmental Council released a report showing that the state’s oldest coal-fired power plants cost $1.5 billion annually in...

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What Nolan Finley really means

No links in this post. Just some plain English translations of Nolan Finley's recent columnspreading unfounded terror among the citizenry....... EPA raises risk of blackouts  As an opinion columnist, I...

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Want Michigan businesses to be competitive? Don't play 'Lucy yanks the...

Dear Gov. Snyder and Michigan legislators:You’ve been consistent in saying that making Michigan’s business climate more competitive is your top goal. Michigan’s energy efficiency program provides...

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How it came that I took a faceful of skunk juice

Skunked!Perhaps this is the impetus for the resurrection of Mitten State. All I know, sitting in this stinking living room with these stinking dogs and a face full of skunk spray, is that I have to...

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Detroit News scribe feels his friends' pain: Lakefront swells bothered by...

The Detroit News’ Henry Payne asks how wind turbines are the symbol of the green movement before declaring them eyesores on the grounds that his friends don’t like to see them behind their lakefront...

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The "Global Cooling in the 70s: canard: Doubt is their product, facts be damned!

For the eleventy-seventh time in the last few years someone’s flung the “They Said There’d Be Global Cooling in the 1970s” argument against global warming climate science in my direction.The Global...

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GOP scuttles two-week pause on billions in tax breaks for Big Oil; and the...

I don’t see the Tea Party folks quoted in this story, but I’m sure they were screaming loudly about the billions in tax breaks for big oil that were maintained by a mostly party-line vote in the U.S....

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New data: Clean energy in Michigan comes in cheaper than coal; utility says...

Everyone knows renewable energy is way more expensive than the ‘cheap’ coal touted by those slick industry advertisements Right?Two words: Bull. Puckey. And a pair of stunning new developments in...

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An interview with me. Because it's all about me.

I try to make Mitten State not about me. It doesn’t always work out that way. So here’s a link to a short story and lengthy (23 minute) podcast of my appearance on the Greening of the Great Lakes radio...

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