RG Radio: Wonderful Windmills
When the wind blows it makes power. And thanks to Grand Rapids’ Cascade Engineering, no 400-foot-pole required. Meet the early adopters.
Chris McCarus's Latest Articles
RG Radio: Save the Farm
With agriculture rapidly gaining ground on automotive as the state’s top industry, protecting the state’s land-based industries has never been more important.
RG Radio: Brownfield To Eco Park?
A new study suggests that Michigan's 4,400 Brownfields could be converted into wind and solar energy parks that could remake the state as an alternative energy economy.
RG Radio: A South Denison Sale?
The fight for the Denison dunes property may be finally coming to an end as the south half of one of the Lakeshore’s last undeveloped properties may soon be sold to the community for preservation…if they can find the money.
RG Radio: Die Interstate, Die
As the carmakers that built 20th Century Michigan struggle with the rapid destabilization and growing challenges of a car-based society, New Urbanists in Grand Rapids and abroad are looking at how to rebuild the state into something dense, sustainable and altogether new.
RG Radio: Field Guide to Sprawl
Earlier this week, Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus got a preview of the groundbreaking exhibitition, A Field Guide to Urban Sprawl.
RG Radio: Quit Developing
The Big Three of Creative-based economic development recently sat down for a frank discussion on how to fix Michigan's economy. The surprising conclusion: Reign in large top-down development projects.
RG Radio: Porkapalooza
Porkapalooza 2008 is taking place this Saturday near Fennville.
RG Radio: Saugatuck Dune Fight
An Oklahoma billionaire is suing for the right to build homes in Saugatuck on 400 acres of fragile dunes. The community recently announced new strategies for protecting this stretch of pristine lakeshore. We take you there.
