Why Detroit?
Green Tech
Lithium Ion battery factories, solar cells, windmills: they are all being designed, engineered and built in The D, tapping into the wealth of engineering talent concentrated throughout Southeast Michigan.
News:
February 10, 2010Making Detroit high tech
March 1, 2011$264,000 in energy conservation grants approved for three downtown buildings
March 1, 2011Green Space: Detroit Thermal's network grows, EnergyStar goes to Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
March 1, 2011Downtown's Rags expands with Greenbliss, a sustainable design center
October 24, 2011Automakers look to U-M's champion solar car team for innovations, green ideas
June 27, 2011Michigan State University Partners With Wayne County Airport Authority to Harvest and Process Alternative Fuel Feedstocks on Airport Property
July 18, 2011Michigan airports to lease land for energy crop production
November 29, 2011DEGC, city to switch downtown's street lights to LEDs
December 13, 2011TechTown's ENRG Systems turns Accelerate Michigan win into biz momentum
“The press is ripping the city, and it is really not that way. It has art, entertainment, culture, diversity, gaming, cars, sports — it has everything. The CVB has been phenomenal."
