Ann Arbor Gets LED-Friendly

by Jaime Pfeffer

April 3rd, 2008 in Ann Arbor, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Green

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Dearborn isn’t the only city in Michigan moving to LED lights in an effort to save energy and reduce green house gas emissions. Ann Arbor is doing it, too - albeit at its own pace.

Concentrate, the new-ish ezine from the fabulous folks at Issue Media Group, explains it like this:

One block at a time. That’s how quickly Ann Arbor is changing its downtown street lights to more energy-efficient LED lights this year.

The city’s energy department recently started relamping the street lights and so far has three blocks (on Washington Street between 5th and Ashley streets) of new LEDs in place.

More on that story here.

But A2 isn’t just switching a few of its streetlights; according to Inhabitant.com, the home of the University of Michigan is “on its way to becoming the first U.S. city to light up its downtown with 100% LED technology”. How’s that for an aggressive plan to greenify itself?!

One of Detroit's biggest cheerleaders, Jaime Pfeffer moved to the Motor City from suburban Detroit five years ago. She started a blog, Girl in the D, in September 2004 to promote the positive aspects of Detroit and hasn't stopped touting Motown's good side since. Jaime left corporate America in 2007 to pursue her first love, writing.