Empty bottles fund Ann Arbor’s $50K pollution prevention grant

It’s a fun irony to see that shirking your bottle return duty is still helping the environment. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality recently announced another $200,000 round of grants from its Community Pollution Prevention Fund, which gets its allocation from ten-cent deposits paid on bottles that are never redeemed. Included in the award pool is the city of Ann Arbor, which received a $50,000 grant to be deployed over two years.... [Read More...]

Blue Goes Green

As the region’s top employer, biggest institution, and largest land owner, the University of Michigan’s local influence can’t be understated. So too with its green practices. From creating greater energy efficiency to shrinking its carbon footprint, Team Planet Blue is pushing forward the U’s plans to make sustainability and conservation a matter of course. News from Concentrate  Read More →