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 GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The city’s oldest open-air market now has a brand new shed with a roof. But as large as that structure looms at 1147 E. Fulton St., the biggest changes to the Fulton Street Farmers Market might be what people won’t see when the site reopens for business May 5.  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Since the early 1940s, Bob Strick's family has been coming to the Fulton Street Farmers Market to sell produce grown at the family farm in Hudsonville. But the weekend ritual was a little different on Saturday, the first day the city's oldest outdoor retail market was open for its 90th season. 
This week Haris Alibasic, Director of Energy and Sustainability for
the City of Grand Rapids comments on how Grand Rapids maintains a
leadership position in sustainability both nationally and world-wide.
Because of the uniqueness and success of the 2010 Grand Rapids Sustainability Plan,
Grand Rapids is considered one of the “most forward looking cities in
terms of sustainability planni
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 The city of Grand Rapids, Mich., will ensure stable energy sources during hotter summers by powering 30 percent of its city operations with renewable energy by 2013.  As electric vehicles become a reality in West Michigan, Grand Rapids is ready to handle te charge. In January, the city installed five charging stations, including four in downtown parking ramps and one on Ottawa Avenue NW in front of City Hall. "By installing these stations, we wanted people to learn about alternative sources of energy for their vehicles..."  DeVos Place is expanding on their leading efforts to make the venue as ‘green’ as can be with the installation of two charging stations for electronic vehicles inside the venue’s basement parking lot.DeVos Place has installed two CT2003 charging stations on the northwest wall of the building’s basement level parking garage near the Michigan Street exit. The stations will provide power for the incr
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