Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave’s On the Ground Battle Creek series. When people think of the work of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, economic development does not immediately come to mind. That is just how the woman who spearheads the Kellogg Foundations’s economic development work prefersContinue Reading
Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave’s On the Ground Battle Creek series. When executive-level Kellogg employees part ways with their employer, over the years enough of them have decided to stay in Battle Creek that the city has secured its place as a national andContinue Reading
Ontario’s Environment Ministry has agreed “in principle” to extend the deadline for the targeted dredging of Chedoke Creek, according to Hamilton’s director of watershed management. Cari Vanderperk told councillors on Wednesday that the ministry is asking the city to review permitting implications and timing to understand when the project couldContinue Reading
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Horizon Blockchain Games, best known for its popular title Skyweaver, has raised $40 million in Series A funding to grow products and scale operations. Horizon will grow Sequence, the company’s fast-growing all-in-one developer platform and smart wallet that makes building web3 games and applications easy; expand Skyweaver’s content andContinue Reading
In the Carole Williams-Green Environmental Education and Exhibits Room in the Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center (CCCEC), fishing poles line one wall, paintings of birds decorate another, and tables around the light-filled room display duck decoys, an aquarium with a swimming turtle, and found specimens like wasp and bird nests.Continue Reading
State environmental regulators are investigating a fish kill in northwestern Wisconsin. The Department of Natural Resources said staff have observed dead fish in Isabelle Creek flowing south along County Road C in Ellsworth, a Pierce County village of about 3,300 people 35 miles southeast of the Twin Cities. The DNRContinue Reading
COLUMBIA — The city and local environmental groups are more than a year into a legal fight to challenge the city’s own zoning board over allowing an auto salvage operation that opponents say clashes with efforts to clean up and beautify a gateway with a history of industrial pollution. The thoroughfare ofContinue Reading
In June 2021 the Backbone Fire ravaged a 41,924-acre area surrounding Fossil Creek. The U.S. Forest Service then closed the popular hiking and swimming area to the public, citing “unsafe conditions” associated with post-fire flooding, road damage and downed power lines. The closure order was written to remain effective throughContinue Reading
Artist Saudade Toxosi curated the ‘Take Me To The Water(s)’ exhibit, which examines the environment and ecology, urban development, community, gentrification, and race and class issues that surround the Salt Creek area near Bartlett Park. It will be on display at Harbor Hall Gallery at USF, 1000 Third St. S, March 28-31,Continue Reading
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, one of the world’s largest private philanthropic organizations, is coming off a record year for grant making. The Battle Creek-based charitable foundation, with a combined $8.8 billion in its endowment and trust, set a new benchmark in its 92-year history by awarding more than $483 million in grant commitmentsContinue Reading
