Rotary Charities has awarded over a quarter of million dollars in grants to projects that that will implement the Grand Vision.
"We awarded 22 grants during our last grant round," said Rotary Charities Executive Director Marsha Smith. "Of those, seven were directly related to implementation of the Grand Vision...when evaluating grants, we look for proposals that [...]
February 25, 2010 – 2:24 pm
About twice a month, we send out our Grand Vision update. It includes a roundup of recent stories from the six the Grand Vision issue areas, a look at upcoming events related to the Grand Vision and a photo from our Grand Vision group on the photo sharing site Flickr. If you'd like to see [...]
February 23, 2010 – 12:26 pm
This report describes the scenario planning process with an explanation of the workshop timeline, attendance, activities, and results. An initial report was created to identify and summarize the work that had already been done in the region related to transportation and land use planning. It was titled “Past/Existing Transportation and Land Use Trends Report” and [...]
February 23, 2010 – 11:49 am
Our first highlighted blog from the region is My Wheels Are Turning, about which the author writes:
My Wheels are Turning was created to explore how and why it is we move. It was created to examine the values that we promote when we make those choices. It’s for walkers, bikers, motor vehicle users and users [...]
February 18, 2010 – 7:06 pm
Welcome to the Live Blog of the Grand Vision Energy Forum at the NMC Hagerty Center in Traverse City, Michigan.
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6:06pm - Good crowd has turned [...]
February 15, 2010 – 2:53 pm
There is much to update on this story:
U.S. Representative Camp (MI-4th) and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will hold a town hall meeting on efforts to stop Asian Carp this Wednesday (Feb 17) at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, 1701 Front St., from 11 a.m. to noon.
Circle of Blue Water News has dedicated an entire [...]
February 11, 2010 – 12:28 pm
Every two weeks we send out our Grand Vision update. In addition to a roundup of recent stories of interest, we feature a photo from our Grand Vision group on the photo sharing site Flickr. If you'd like to see YOUR photo featured here, click to join the Grand Vision group!
This photo of the DH [...]
January 28, 2010 – 1:41 pm
Every two weeks we send out our Grand Vision update. In addition to a roundup of recent stories of interest, we feature a photo from our Grand Vision group on the photo sharing site Flickr. If you'd like to see YOUR photo featured here, click to join the Grand Vision group!
This photo of Guernsey Lake [...]
January 15, 2010 – 11:57 am
Circle of Blue Water News has this story about efforts from the Granholm/Cherry administration to further what Circle of Blue dubbed Michigan's "Blue" or freshwater economy:
"John D. Cherry Jr., Michigan’s lieutenant governor, spent eight days last month on a trade mission to Israel and Dubai, and returned with inked deals for start-up technology projects with [...]
January 14, 2010 – 3:17 pm
Every two weeks we send out our Grand Vision update. In addition to a roundup of recent stories of interest, we feature a photo from our Grand Vision group on the photo sharing site Flickr. If you'd like to see YOUR photo featured here, click to join the Grand Vision group!
ETCphoto (Terry Clark) took this [...]
