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BLOG Featured PostAre Manufacturing Jobs Returning?Posted on 08-13-2010 at 11:04 AM byLou Glazer at Michigan Future, Inc. just released a post summing up his series of the past few weeks covering manufacturing in the United States. In this post, Glazer examines a USA Today article wherein some companies are bringing factory work back into the United States. . . click here for complete postEvent: Art PrizePosted on 08-13-2010 at 01:59 AM by Emily Knoll
click here for complete postChicken Races!Posted on 08-10-2010 at 2:01 PM by Sarah SzurpickiA brilliant example of how there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned goofy fun to highlight the good things people, on their own, are doing in the city. Man, do I love Detroit. (Thanks to Model D for the vi click here for complete postComponents of CRSI Moving Through CongressPosted on 08-10-2010 at 1:21 PM byAttendees of our 2010 Urban Labs Conference in Cleveland will be excited to know that the Community Regeneration, Sustainability, and Innovation Act (CRSI) we discussed was passed by Senate committee last week. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Tim Ryan (OH-17) introduced the bill in 2009. . . click here for complete postTurning the Tide in the Great LakesPosted on 08-10-2010 at 10:29 AM by Emily Knoll
click here for complete postPhotos of the Week: Urban Farming in ClevelandPosted on 08-10-2010 at 09:38 AM by Emily Knoll
click here for complete postObstacles to High Speed Rail in the U.S.Posted on 08-10-2010 at 09:36 AM by Sarah SzurpickiA new Brookings video-cast with Robert Puentes discusses about the future of high speed rail in the United States. The conversation focuses more on intercity rail than intracity rail, and Puentes talks about the obstacles still in the path for the United States. He also speaks about the current administration’s efforts to implement high-speed rail. click here for complete postSMART Renewed in Southeastern MichiganPosted on 08-09-2010 at 4:44 PM byLost in all the news of other elections and other transit-related steps forward, Southeast Michigan voters approved a millage renewal of SMART buses. . . click here for complete postI Will Shout Youngstown Shares a New PerspectivePosted on 08-09-2010 at 1:58 PM byI Will Shout Youngstown has a great new post up with a potential advertising strategy for Youngstown (and many other Rust Belt cities). Youngstown: A Great Place to Fail articulates an old philosophy in a new way. . . click here for complete postCleveland Judge Takes Action Against FlippersPosted on 08-07-2010 at 10:48 AM byRustWire recently put up a story about Raymond Pianka, a judge in Cleveland who has become widely known for taking bold stands against abandoned properties in his city. This time, hes making those who own abandoned homes pay restitution to neighbors of the properties, to make up for their own properties loss of value. The goal is to discourage those who flip houses quickly, never living in the city and selling them right away. . . click here for complete post |
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The Great Lakes region’s greatest asset is–well–the Great Lakes themselves. This huge freshwater resource has literally shaped our region, our culture, and our economies. While Great Lakes residents rely on the lakes for tourism, recreation, and industry, cities like Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, and Milwaukee pump billions of gallons of sewage into the Great Lakes annually. The Healing Our Waters Great Lakes Coalition recently published a report entitled 
One of the many site visits GLUEsters could take during our recent Urban Laboratories Conference in Cleveland was a trip to two of the city’s urban farms. Like most Rust Belt cities, vacant lots dot Cleveland’s landscape, and many of these properties have been idle for decades. The Re-Imagining Cleveland project, though, is taking about 3,000 acres of this vacant land and putting it to good use by building parks, gardens, farms, and greenways throughout the city. Both of the lots we visited were being used as for-profit farms. Although neither was larger than three acres, these urban farmers cultivated every usable inch of their soil, sometimes planting more than four different crops in a bed each year. By selling at farmers markets and local restaurants, these farmers are earning money and providing the city with more fresh, local food.
These urbanites have turned what were once charred, vacant properties into flourishing, profitable farms.
