Restaurants, as you might imagine, go through a lot of food in a night and — inevitably — there's some waste.
A new program through Traverse City's Downtown Development Authority aims to get more downtown-area restaurants on the composting bandwagon, turning their food scraps into valuable soil and cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions in the process.
IPR's Izzy Ross has that story, in partnership with Grist.
We'll also hear about a recent study from the University of Michigan about how smaller, rural communities often struggle to secure state and federal funding.
It's notable because those are often the places most reliant on that money.
And in our headlines, we'll hear about plans to fix up a popular, historic lighthouse in northern Michigan, and an effort to reverse a permit approval for the controversial Line 5 tunnel.
