“Embracing a Green Michigan” Coming to WSU

by Jaime Pfeffer

April 10th, 2008 in Autos, Conservation, Creative, Detroit, Energy, Environment, Green, Living

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What is Michigan doing to develop new green technologies? How is the state thinking differently about the environment?

Those two questions and a slew of others related to the future of the Great Lakes State and its proposed green-energy economy will be addressed at a special conference at Wayne State University on April 22.

Presented by WWJ and the University Research Corridor, “Embracing A Green Michigan - Carbon Culture at The Crossroads”, will feature two panel discussions exploring concepts like the public policies that will be needed at the federal, state and local government levels to create a bioeconomy, and the challenges of changing public behavior and habits to support new energy and environmental technologies.

Panelists are set to include Jim Croce, CEO of NextEnergy; Steve Forrest, Vice President for Research, University of Michigan; Mary Beth Stanek, director of GM Energy and Environmental Policy and Commercialization; and several other executives from around the state. Skip Pruss, from Governor Granholm’s office, will kick off the half-day event with a presentation of Michigan’s alternative energy plan.

Tickets to the event — which will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 — are $35 each. Advanced registration is required.

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.