The Grand Vision Citizen Action Expo takes place on Monday, May 10th at Northwest Michigan College's Hagerty Center in Traverse City from 5:30 – 7:30 PM.
We invite you to attend and to share it with your friends, family and co-workers.
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This year, go green on St. Patrick's day in a different way. With green energy.
The Grand Vision Energy Working Group will host a Renewable Energy forum on March 17.
It starts at 7pm and will be held at the Traverse Area District Library.
Michigan currently receives only 3% of its electricity from renewable energy. By law, electricity [...]

When it comes to energy, it is easy to find information on the problems: fossil fuel supplies, national security, air quality, environmental impacts, rising costs. And when you start to really delve into the details, there can arise this overwhelming sense of dread. What are we going to do in the face of disappearing fossil [...]

Welcome to the Live Blog of the Grand Vision Energy Forum at the NMC Hagerty Center in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Tonight, the Grand Vision Energy Working Group will host an energy forum on saving energy and reducing greenhouse gases.
The featured speaker will be David Konkle, who is the municipal training director for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). There will also be presentations from four Grand Vision working groups: Energy, Natural Resources, and [...]

On Feb 18, the Grand Vision Energy Working Group will host an energy forum on saving energy and reducing greenhouse gases.
The featured speaker will be David Konkle, who is the municipal training director for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). There will also be presentations from four Grand Vision working groups: Energy, Transportation, [...]

Last night (Jan 19), the Grand Vision Energy Working Group held the first of five forums on energy goals and strategies developed to implement the Grand Vision.
Roughly fifty people attended the event that focused on the first energy goal: Energy Efficiency, which is to "Maximize energy efficiency and conservation to the greatest extent practical across [...]

6:00 pm- Welcome to the live blog from the Energy Working Group Forum. Please refresh your page (press the F5 key) periodically to see the latest updates.
6:08 pm – Welcome to the Grand Vision Energy Working Group Public Forum! Agenda for the evening:
The five over-arching goals of the Energy Working Group:
Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Education, [...]

The Grand Vision Energy Working Group, through collaboration with key stakeholders in the region, have identified five over-arching goals to implement the shared energy values of the Grand Vision.
The Energy Group will present the first of these goals in a public forum on January 19, 2010. These forums are intended to provide the community with [...]

Mr. Konkle will explain the big opportunities that energy efficiency provides to communities for cutting costs by decreasing their energy demand. He will speak about how business and government can save money for taxpayers and businesses by reducing investments in costly new power plants. After the presentation, MEAP’s Tom Karas facilitates a lively question and answer session.