“It really isn’t revolutionary. A lot of neighborhoods built around World War II are a model of this. It’s traditional, where we used to see high density neighborhoods, with houses closer to each other and walkable streets. Downtown used to be a destination. Many communities are trying to return to that.”

—Land Programs Director Brad Garmon, speaking of
Smart Growth principles in the March 16 Monroe News

“Instead of old coal or expensive, risky nuclear power, let us create jobs here in Michigan for those who build, sell, install, design and maintain high-tech products.”

—Land Use and Energy Program Associate Ariel Shaw in a Muskegon Chronicle Op/Ed

“You look around and what do you see? You see plastic bottles littering the roadways. We have a system in place that could collect those.”

—Policy Director James Clift in a March 28 Detroit News article on possible expansion of the bottle deposit law

“The governor is headed down a dangerous path that leads directly from a U.P. sulfide mine to the Great Lakes.”

—Communications Director Hugh McDiarmid, Jr. in the March 7 Escanaba Daily Press regarding the proposed sulfide mine near Marquette

“Some people say ‘oh, global warming, it’s going to change the world in 100 years, but I’ll be gone by then.’ But I think that’s a horrible way to look at things because we’re leaving the world to a lot of people that we love.”

—Deputy Policy Director Kate Madigan in a February 5 Great Lakes Radio Consortium story on carbon offsets