For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of traveling along the Detroit River lately, there’s apparently a new landmark on the Motor City waterfront – a three-story tall pile of petroleum coke, which covers an entire city block. According to a report in today’s New York Times, we have libertarian industrialists Charles and […]
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Oily, environmentally toxic pyramid of greed being erected in Detroit by the Koch brothers
Posted in Detroit, Environment, Uncategorized Also tagged Alberta, Ambassador Bridge, Andy Hartz, Canada, carbon emissions, Charles Koch, China, CO2, Coke, David Koch, Detroit River, Gary Peters, global climate change, Global Warming, John Conyers, Ken Boyd, Kerry Satterthwaite, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, Koch Industries, lame duck, Libertarianism, Lorne Stockman, Marathon Petroleum, Matty Moroun, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, oil, Oil Change International, oil sands, petcoke, petroleum coke, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, tar sands 35 Comments
Michigan… come for the great lakes, stay for the corporate oligarchy
According to the Detroit News, our Governor’s secret education privatization task force, nicknamed the Skunk Works, was just the tip of the iceberg. Apparently, in spite of Snyder’s pledge to bring unprecedented transparency to Lansing, a great deal of the legislation coming out of the Capital these days seems to be the product of corporate […]
Posted in Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged cyber school, education reform, Michigan is doomed, Oxford Foundation, privatization, Rick Snyder, Royal Oak, school vouchers, secrecy, shadow government, Sidney Kardon, skunk works, threats to Democracy, threats to public education, transparency 25 Comments
Jessica Meissner on assisting non-venture capital backed companies, and expanding the role of co-ops in Michigan
Among the people in the audience at Thursday night’s “Doing Business in Ypsilanti” panel, was a woman who has been tasked by Washtenaw County to study the needs of non-venture capital funded entrepreneurs, and make suggestions as to how we might better support them. Her name is Jessica Meissner, and what follows is our email […]
Posted in Economics, Michigan, Ypsilanti Also tagged access to capital, Alternative Energy, BALLE, BEC, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, co-ops, collaboration, cooperation, cooperatives, Costa Rica, Dug Song, economic anthropology, Jessica Meissner, local procurement, Maker Works, Organic Valley, Paul Saginaw, purchasing, sharing assets, Small and Mighty, small business, sustainably, The Shed, Tom Root, triple bottom line, underemployment, unemployment, University of Michigan, venture capital, Washtenaw County, Wisconsin, workforce development 9 Comments