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Plans to get more pedestrian-friendly are in the works

Proposals to make Berrien Couny more friendly for bicycle riders and pedestrians are in the works. TwinCATS, the Twin Cities Area Transportation Study, asked a committee take a look at […]

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The neighborhood house where science and energy efficiency meet

When replacing the furnace and adding insulation is not enough to make a house energy efficient, what next? As HMS Companies explores the answer to that question it's coming up with some green solutions. Second Wave managing editor Kathy Jennings reports on how the savings could be all yours. 

Landscape Forms sees the light and it’s lit with LEDs

Landscape Forms started 40 years ago with seasonal employees by a man who found a way to keep his workers employed each winter. Now it's keeping employees at work building transit shelters and LED lights that fit in anywhere in the world.

Nicklaus Signature Golf Course is driver for economic development in Benton Harbor

Golf is not just a game in Benton Harbor. It's creating jobs and changing lives, thanks to Jack Nicklaus and a local team made up of community and economic leaders.

Company responsible for oil spill promises to buy houses
Cutting-edge work is every-day work at Edgewater

At Edgewater Automation every job is unique and most of then are secret. Kim North Shine reports that's the St. Joseph company's edge.

Music and ideas come to a boil at festival

A music festival in the key of awesome is how the I.D.E.A. Association plans to draw out the community and what they have to offer for fixing the ills of society. Rebecca Bakken talks with the group's founders to learn where it all leads.

Paw Paw invites monarch butterflies to sit and rest awhile
Retailers find their wings in experimental business incubator

Can a retail incubator work to fill up empty storefronts in downtown Kalamazoo? Kathy Jennings sees an experimental program showing success before her eyes.

Richland Farmers Market offers online convenience

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