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Tag Archives: michigan
Saturday Night Parking Fever
En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W. Fort St., site of a protest against the proposed demolition of the vacant, Detroit Saturday Night building at that address. … Continue reading
Posted in Historic preservation, Parking, Urban Planning
Tagged coleman young, demolition, Detroit, detroit saturday night building, detroiters for parking reform, emmett moten, fort street, francis grunow, green task force, ilitch, michigan, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, parking, surface parking
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Fall Into Detroit Flavor
(Satire, in case it isn’t apparent.) A new season is upon us, so, naturally, our top talent at the Handbuilt Test Kitchen has been hard at work on some recipes for fall flavor. Yea, as we scrape wet leaves off … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Regulation
Tagged air pollution, Detroit, fall, marathon refinery, michigan, particulate emissions, petcoke, pollution, recipes, Regulation, rouge river, Zug Island
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The Red-Blooded, Gas-Fired Future of Midwestern Energy
I attended a forum on DTE’s Integrated Resource Plan Tuesday. The state’s public service commission, an entity that seems to exist under an aggressively anti-regulation governor mostly as a formality, requires this sort of forum as part of periodic outreach. … Continue reading
Posted in Coal, Energy Efficiency, Energy Poverty, Environment, Environmental Justice, Renewable Energy, Urban energy, Utilities
Tagged coal, DTE Energy, electric grid, electricity, elon musk, energiewende, energy poverty, lignite coal, michigan, michigan public service commission, ontario, photovoltaics, POCACITO, power grid, powerwall, public utilities, pv, renewable energy, solar panels, Tesla, utilities, Zug Island
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There Is No Public Transit Across One Of The Busiest Border Crossings In The World And That’s Kind Of Problematic
The corner of Wyandotte Avenue West and Patricia Road in the west end of Windsor, Ontario, is an odd nexus, a literal and figurative intersection between residence, commerce, international exchange, and industry. A 7/11 serves a motley crew of patrons … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Planning
Tagged ambassador bridge, customs and border patrol, Detroit, detroit department of transportation, detroit river, gordie howe bridge, matty moroun, michigan, ontario, public transit, regional transit, trade, transit, transit windsor, US-Canada border, via rail, windsor
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Policy Point: Limiting Rent Increases
I’ve heard plenty of horror stories recently of rental increases resulting in people getting kicked out of apartments and having to move. In Royal Oak, Michigan, for example, when a long-term tenant paying $1,025 a month was asked to start … Continue reading
Ontario Hydro vs. Michigan Coal: A Cross-Border Perspective on Energy Policy
Michigan’s neighboring state, also known as the Canadian province of Ontario, has been struggling for months with untenable increases in electric rates (what they call “hydro”). It’s gotten so bad that citizens have started organizing protests about bills. Let’s chew … Continue reading
Posted in Detroit, Energy Efficiency, Energy Poverty, Environment, Michigan, Ontario, Urban energy, Utilities
Tagged coal, coal power, Detroit, electrical generation, electrical grid, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy poverty, hydro power, hydroelectric, kathleen wynne, michigan, nuclear power, ontario, ontario hydro, photovoltaics, renewable energy, renewables, solar power, utilities, utility bills, wind power
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