While lawmakers in Lansing stall over the state's future in green energy technologies and consider allowing the utility companies to create more coal-generated plants, one Grand Rapids leader is determined to pursue what could be the most aggressive renewable energy plan in the U.S.
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Michigan's own Henry Ford generated amazing wealth innovating and mass marketing the automobile.
But his fortune was an anthill compared to the mountain of money John D. Rockefeller made in the oil business.
And therein lies the story of why Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell is staking out what just might be the most aggressive alternative energy platform of any public official in the United States.
Probably the biggest economic opportunity facing Michigan these days is energy innovation.
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