Great Lakes Now

Meet our authors: A conversation with Sally Cole-Misch and Joanne Robertson
2024-09-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit)

Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper featuring Meteorites
2024-09-25 19:00 - 20:00
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they’ll focus on meteorites!

Great Lakes Now Presents: Virtual Fall Foraging with Lisa M. Rose
2024-09-04 19:00 - 20:00
Join Anna Sysling and Great Lakes Now’s contributor and resident forager Lisa M. Rose for a live virtual event all about how to forage Great Lakes wild foods that are flourishing in the fall season! Bring your questions, foraging stories, and favorite foraging tips and tricks. As always, be prepared to learn a lot along the way!
Stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/heyBwHX8S9I
Stream on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/7995056693912176

GLN August Episode Premiere Party
2024-08-26 20:00 - 20:30
Join GLN for an episode premiere party featuring a segment from the August episode and some special guests to answer your questions live.

Over the years, people have navigated the Great Lakes in everything from birch bark canoes to thousand-foot freighters. Yet one distinctive type of boat—a genuine Great Lakes original—has nearly vanished. Thankfully, there are dedicated enthusiasts pushing to bring it back. GLN’s Ward Detwiler goes to Tawas City, Michigan, on the Lake Huron shoreline, to learn more.

Featured guests include:–Heritage Coast Sailing and Rowing Founding member Dave Wentworth–Chairman of Heritage Coast Sailing and Rowing Kurt Fogelsonger

Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper featuring Petoskey Stones
2024-08-21 19:00 - 20:00
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they’ll focus on Petoskey stones!

Featured guests include:–Don Reed, co-owner of Snob Appeal Jewelry, avid rock collector, and blogger. Don donated a pink petoskey stone to the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, and has published many articles about these special rocks and others over the years.–Michelle Thomas, co-owner of P-Stone Creations. Michelle makes everything from jewelry to knives with a focus on featuring petoskey stones on all of their creations.

GLN July Episode Premiere Party - 10 Years After Toledo Water Crisis: What's Changes?
2024-07-29 20:00 - 20:30
Join guest host Nina Ignaczak of Planet Detroit for a look at one of our featured segments from the latest episode of Great Lakes Now and stick around to join in a LIVE conversation with a panel of experts who will join the episode premiere party to answer YOUR questions!

In this premiere party a look at our story on the 10th anniversary of the Toledo Water Crisis, which was caused by a harmful algal bloom that had formed over the water intake in Lake Erie. We’ll check out the story and then guest host Nina Ignaczak will talk with two experts about where Toledo water stands today and what we’ve learned in the decade since the crisis.

Featured guests include:–Dr. Jeff Reutter, former director of Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab. He currently acts as Special Advisor to the office, and continues to participate on regional, national and international advisory groups concerned with protecting Lake Erie.–Nick Schroeck, Interim Dean of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Dean Schroeck is a sought-after environmental law expert. His research and clinic casework focuses on reducing air and water pollution, working towards environmental justice, promoting mass transportation, and advancing citizen suit enforcement of our environmental laws.

Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Christ Cooper feat. Isle Royale Greenstone
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:00
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational, and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they’ll focus on Isle Royale Greenstone, or Chlorastrolite, Michigan’s State Gemstone!

Featured guests include:–Jordan DeWitt , rockhound and author of “Isle Royale Greenstone: Exploring Michigan’s State Gemstone”–Gary Katt, rockhound, scuba diver, and jewelry maker. Gary makes trips throughout the year to collect rocks and minerals in the Keweenaw Peninsula, home of the greenstone

Great Lakes Now June Episode Premiere Party
2024-06-24 20:00 - 20:30
Join Great Lakes Now for the premiere party for our new episode! This time we’ll check out a segment about the joys and learning opportunities in foraging for wild foods and medicinal plants, and then a LIVE conversation with GLN Contributor and Resident Great Lakes Forager Lisa M. Rose!

Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper featuring Lake Superior Agates
2024-06-18 19:00 - 20:00
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they’ll focus on Lake Superior Agates with the self-proclaimed “Agate Lady” Karen Brzys!
Karen Brzys is owner of the new Agatelady Rock Shop in Grand Marais, MI (opened in 2023). She previously operated the Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum (1999-2022), and has written seven books and spoken at rock club meetings and international agate conferences all over the country. Her objective is to teach people about rocks and minerals in the hope that they take up the rockhounding hobby and maybe take better care of the Earth.

Great Lakes News Collaborative Presents The Checkup: Water and Human Health in a Changing Climate
2024-06-12 19:00 - 20:00
Join Great Lakes Now, Circle of Blue, Bridge Michigan, Michigan Public and The Narwhal for a dynamic conversation about issues at the intersection of the Great Lakes, climate change and human health.
Featured speakers include:–Fatima Syed, Ontario reporter for The Narwhal–Kelly House, environmental reporter for Bridge Michigan–Lisa John Rogers, news editor for Great Lakes Now–Lester Graham, environmental reporter for Michigan Public–Brett Walton, reporter for Circle of Blue

Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper feat. Yooperlite!
2024-05-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-05-20 08:00 - 17:00
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they’ll focus Yooperlite–what it is, why it’s special and how to find it!

Our featured guest for this event is Erik Rintamaki, who years ago, discovered a rock that glows under an ultraviolet light. Without knowing what it was or why the rocks glowed, he named them “Yooperlites.”

Great Lakes Now April Episode Premiere Party
2024-04-29 20:00 - 20:30 | Carmela
Join Great Lakes Now for an episode premiere party featuring a segment from the new April show and guests who will share even more insight and information about our featured story.
Featured guests include:–Tom Hollenhorst, Ecologist with the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development in the Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division–John Shepard, Filmmaker, A Sea Change for Superior; and Associate Professor and Director of Multimedia Development at Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education–Michael Miller, Swimmer and co-lead for the Lake Superior North Shore Relay Swimmers

‘Poisoned Ground’ and Environmental Policy
2024-04-17 19:00 - 20:00
Join Great Lakes Now for a PBS Virtual Town Hall featuring American Experience’s “Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal,” which tells the dramatic and inspiring story of ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY, discovered that their homes, schools, and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill. Highlights for this virtual event include video clips from the film, a conversation with American Experience Executive Producer Cameo George, and a live panel discussion featuring experts on environmental issues and policy; clean up and remediation; and a look at the lasting impacts of the Love Canal environmental disaster.

U-M lecture features Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on climate crisis, environmental justice
2024-03-26 17:00 - 18:00 | 2021-08-August-Great-Lakes-Now-Special-ver-01-A-clean0015
