Go Green
A Blog by WARM Training Center
Detroit Incinerator Seeks $4.2 million in Tax Credits
Mar 15th
The Detroit Incinerator, which burns the vast majority of trash collected in the city of Detroit, as well as from several surrounding communities, is applying for a brownfield tax credit of $4.195 million.
The City of Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority will host public hearings Thursday on the Brownfield Tax Credit for the Detroit incinerator.
An informational session will be held at 5:30 p.m. The hearing on Detroit Thermal, which would purchase steam from the incinerator, begins at 6 p.m. and will be followed at 6:30 p.m. by a hearing on the incinerator, to be owned by Detroit Renewable Energy.
The meetings will be held at the College for Creative Studies in the Walter B. Ford Classroom Building Auditorium on Frederick Douglass Street, between Brush and St. Antoine.
Source: http://www.freep.com/article/20110314/NEWS05/103140325/Incinerator-hearings-held
D-Yes Powershift Fundraiser Brunch
Mar 10th
Please join us to help send the hardworking kids of the Detroit Youth Energy Squad to the Powershift Conference in Washington, DC. D-Yes is holding a fun fundraiser brunch featuring Representative Hansen Clarke. Your presence and support are an inspiration to the D-Yes students and will help them attend an awesome conference.
Register Here - http://www.warmtraining.org/events/d-yes/
Date:
Saturday, March 26th
10:30am to 12:30pm
Location:
Fishbone’s Restaurant
(Greektown location
400 Monroe Street
Detroit, MI 48226
D-YES is an innovative program that strives to reduce household energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions by training young people ages 16-24 to help lower-income households conserve energy. Crews help lower-income residents understand their energy bills, recommend behaviors that conserve energy, and install about $100 worth of free energy-saving supplies, such as reusable storm window kits, low-flow showerheads, and weather stripping. Crew members completed a 30-hour training that covered a range of topics, including climate change, green jobs, and communication skills.
Taste of Bioneers – Meetings Shouldn’t Suck!
Mar 2nd
I just wanted to give a call out – please come join us this Saturday, March 5, at Marygrove College for A Taste of Detroit Bioneers.
This event features
- a great lunch,
- Compassionate Conversations in a Crazy World with Nancy Sylvester in the morning, (a great “learnshop” on how to engage with the world with compassion and approach life’s challenges from a contemplative perspective.)
- two opportunities to watch the film The Economics of Happiness
- Meetings Shouldn’t Suck with me! (Jacob from WARM)
I’m excited to have a full 2 hours to run this participatory workshop. Meetings shouldn’t suck. But most of them do. There’s a common wisdom understanding about what consensus is, and it’s wrong. And the result is bad meetings. This basic training in the use of consensus can make any meeting go better, whether it’s with your household, your work, your friends or elsewhere.
Find out more at www.glbd.org or by emailing river1143@comcast.net – and please come join us this Saturday.
Steve Thomas @ WARM’s Annual Breakfast
Feb 22nd
Steve Thomas of This Old House and Renovation Nation fame will be the keynote speaker this year at WARM’s annual awards breakfast. Steve hosted This Old House for 14 years and made it the most popular home renovation television show ever. Steve currently hosts Renovation Nation on the Planet Green channel. On the show Steve travels the country filming green renovation projects and showing off new technologies, it’s great.
Steve was in Detroit in 2009 and filmed the installation of WARM’s rooftop turbine for the show. You can see a picture of the turbine on our website, or come by our office on Michigan Avenue. At the breakfast Steve plans to discuss green building and what it means to him. The event will also feature a breakfast of local foods and an award ceremony to honor those who have committed their lives to promoting energy efficiency and sustainable building.
The breakfast is June 8th in Detroit, save the date on your calendar! More info about registration will be sent out closer to the date.
Sustainable Meat in Michigan
Feb 10th
Want to eat meat from a sustainable, local source in Michigan? EatWild.com is a great resource for locating local vendors of grass fed animal products in Michigan. They have an online directory and map that will help you find the closest location to you. LocalHarvest.com is another great online resource that lists local CSA’s and Farmer’s Markets in addition to local meat vendors. You can search their database using your zip code or city/state. Check it out
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If you’re ever in Yale Michigan check out C.Roy Inc. (ask any of the locals and they’ll point you in the right direction). C. Roy Inc. is a small family operated meat processing plant. When you enter the small shop you’re presented with a deli counter and a see through back window where you can watch them process all of their meat by hand. Just mention that you heard Yale was known for good bologna or something or other…..(trail off), and they’ll slice you off a big piece of their superb bologna to try. Each year Yale hosts the Yale Bologna Festival. They also distribute their meat to local supermarkets around Michigan, I found some in Royal Oak the other day. Continue reading “Sustainable Meat in Michigan” »