#environment
Local businesses report positive change in West Michigan
by (PeopleFirstEconomy)
Submitted 07-20-2017 under NONPROFITS
Local First released its mid-year Good for Grand Rapids Report, which highlights data on businesses that have taken the Quick Impact Assessment over the first six months as a part of Good for Grand Rapids. “Our data show businesses of all...
Kindergarten student starts first Earth Saving Club at Congress Elementary School
by (WMEAC)
Submitted 05-04-2017 under NONPROFITS
Most kindergarteners are learning how to spell or read, but Milo Kraegel, 6-years-old, set his goal to start the first-ever Earth Saving Club at Congress Elementary School. In a matter of months, Milo, with the help of his mother, Irene Kraegel, has...
Rapids restoration plan - what's next?
by (WMEAC)
Submitted 05-09-2016 under NONPROFITS
The city of Grand Rapids was named for the Grand River’s once-iconic whitewater rapids, which have been conspicuously absent for decades. Now, plans are trickling forward to restore the Grand River’s whitewater. The idea came about...
Celebrating Arbor Day, the Urban Forest Project plants 150 trees in Mulick Park
by (FriendsofGRParks)
Submitted 04-26-2016 under NEWS
In Michigan we know that our forests and trees are beautiful and special, but you might not know that the founder of Arbor Day, which is a legal United States holiday and is celebrated this year on Friday, April 29, spent the majority of his most...Catholics Going Green!
by (cicadmin)
Submitted 09-02-2015 under
Tuesdays, September 8, 15, 22, 7-8:45pm Facilitated by Fr. Bernie Campbell, CSP and Irene Strom In light of Pope Francis’s latest encyclical Laudato Si, this small-group study will examine basic environmental justice themes through the lens of...Care of God's Creation: The Greening of Catholicism with Dr. Robert Marko
by (cicadmin)
Submitted 06-02-2015 under
The seventh theme of Catholic Social Teaching symbolizes an advance in official teaching on the environment. This theme offers us a "human ecology" where material nature is inhabited and seen as a gift of the Creator. Dr. Marko will...
11th Annual Mayors' Grand River Cleanup
by (WMEAC)
Submitted 08-05-2014 under NONPROFITS
The 11th annual Mayors' Grand River Cleanup is approaching. The event will be hosted by WMEAC and will take place on the morning of September 20th at Sixth Street Park in Grand Rapids. During this cleanup volunteers will clean up the riverbanks...
New GRAM exhibit forges natural forms from man-made origins
by (Whitney Pavlica)
Submitted 03-17-2014 under LOCAL LIFE
The Grand Rapids Art Museum opened a new exhibit on March 6 titled “Resisting Certainty” by Michigan artist, Susan Goethel Campbell. The exhibit runs through June 1. Campbell, a multi-disciplinary artist, creates work in formats such as...
It's cold- Is there climate change?
by (WMEAC)
Submitted 01-07-2014 under NONPROFITS
As climate change has become politicized over the past number of years, we’ve seen people on both sides trying to point to specific climate events to say “Look, climate change” or “Look, it’s snowing, there must not be...