Dark Skies at Historic Barns Park EcoStrategies Project Portfolio Location Historic Barns Park, Traverse City Year 2019 Partners Deep Foundation RepairThe Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa IndiansTraverse City and…
Snowshoes & Smiles Posted by SEEDS on Apr 10 , 2020 - 01:27 pm Get Me Outside! Above: Kindergartener DJ and 3rd Grader Noah hit the trails on snowshoes at Fife Lake Elementary SEEDS After School. So many screens and so much inactive sitting! What to do on a wintry day? At Fife Lake Elementary, [...]
Solar-Battery Storage: Micro-Solutions! Posted by SEEDS on Feb 12 , 2020 - 05:10 pm Storing Sunshine for Night Lighting Above: Morgan Vondruska assists with the installation of solar pathway lighting at Historic Barns Park. Morgan started with SEEDS as an AmeriCorps VISTA and was subsequently hired to our Youth Conservation Corps for the installation. In [...]
Trees: Let's Tend More! Posted by SEEDS on Sep 05 , 2019 - 07:48 am Want to reverse global warming? Tend to a tree! Trees and other woody plants are superb at taking carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in their trunks, roots, and in the soil. Earth's lungs are also earth's "carbon sink". [...]
Traverse City Staff Take on a KiloWatt-Hour Challenge! Posted by SEEDS on Aug 14 , 2019 - 12:12 pm For one month this summer, City staff were encouraged to take electricity efficiency into their own hands! In striving towards its 100% renewable electricity goal, the City Manager, Marty Colburn, endorsed a City-wide Staff kWh Challenge [...]
For centuries, the energy marketplace has been focused on: Centralizing power structures (large-scale power generation, financial controls); Exponential growth in the demand for electricity and extractive additives (think fertilizer and…
Thirty eight percent and rising! Posted by SEEDS on Jun 03 , 2019 - 05:11 pm The City of Traverse is making progress towards its 2020 goal of meeting 100% of its operational electricity demand with clean, renewable energy sources. In 2018, Traverse City began purchasing the power generated by a local 1MW solar array. [...]
Taking Physics to the Slopes! Posted by SEEDS on Feb 28 , 2019 - 12:09 pm Physics concepts are not limited to textbooks and classrooms! SEEDS After School in Forest Area Middle School took a hands-on approach getting students to design their own racing sleds out of found objects and tape. They learned about [...]
City of Traverse City upgrades Carnegie Library Building lights to LED Posted by SEEDS Team on Feb 11 , 2019 - 09:17 am The City of Traverse City replaced 76 light fixtures at the historic Carnegie Library Building based on energy efficiency recommendations made by SEEDS, moving the City towards its operational goal of 100% [...]
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