Sustainability

Healthy Living Corridor plan gets financial boost

Eight cities across Michigan have been selected to receive assistance for economic development projects that are intended to attract and keep employers. Kalamazoo is one of them. The funds will […]

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Wind turbine student Corey Luther receives scholarship
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Investing locally: An idea whose time may have come again

Once there were local stock exhanges that invested in the community and were instrumental in the creation of jobs. Is this an idea whose time has come again? George Martin reviews the book "Locavesting" and opens the discussion on the possibilities.

Playing in the dirt at the Kalamazoo Nature Center’s preschool

There is a preschool where children are encouraged to get down in the mud and dirty, jump into puddles, and splash around in the rain barrel that collects rain water from the school’s roof. Zinta Aistars has the story on Nature's Way Preschool.

Lucid Dashboard will show WMU students how much energy they use
What is a Sustainability Slam?
Learn how to preserve your wetlands and our future
Stewards of Kleinstuck invite you to take a walk with a purpose
Harnessing the Future

When it comes to farming sometimes old is new again. At least it is for Gina Wertz. She tells Donna McClurkan about her reasons for learning one of the oldest ways for tilling the earth. 

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