(Toronto, Ontario, Canada) To understand the Great Lakes Public Forum, you have to know about the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. This was an agreement first signed by the US […]
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Great Lakes Public Forum: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
by Georgeann Herbert The red carpet was out Tuesday morning to greet the nearly 600 people registered for the Great Lakes Public Forum in Toronto. The forum, occurring once […]
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Lana Pollack on the IJC and the 2016 Great Lakes Public Forum
The Great Lakes Bureau is in Toronto, gearing up to start our live coverage, blog and social media coverage of this weeks Great Lakes Public Forum. We’re excited to to […]
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Simone Lightfoot on Diversity in Environmental Advocacy
We caught up with Simone Lightfoot, National Director of Urban Initiatives, National Wildlife Federation at last week’s Great Lakes Restoration Conference, where she lead the plenary panel titled “Best Practices: […]
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Green vs. Gray: How Can Trees Clean up the Great Lakes?
From Great Lakes Today A big threat to the Great Lakes comes from outdated sewer systems that can carry bacteria into waterways. That can lead to closed beaches and warnings […]
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Russell Simmons on Flint: “They’re still paying the bill for the same poison water.”
We caught up with hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Russel Simmons in Ferndale, Michigan yesterday where he was participating in a fundraiser to support a pop-up healthy foods store in Flint, […]
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Microplastics: undigestible pollutants showing up in fish, birds and even whales
by Adrian de Novato of Science Around Michigan As far as water contaminants go, microbeads are the media darling. And while the pending ban on microbeads in personal care products […]
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Great Lakes Today: Dogs sniff out pollution along Great Lakes
From our friends at Great Lakes Today: Leaky sewers and septic tanks send bacteria into the Great Lakes each summer, forcing beaches to close temporarily. To find the problem pipes, […]
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Day Two of the Great Lakes Restoration Conference: Energizing Engagement
(Sandusky, Ohio) Another beautiful sunrise greeted the participants of The 12th annual Great Lakes Restoration conference this morning at The Hotel Breakers Conference Center on Lake Erie. The morning began with an […]
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Day One of Great Lakes Restoration Conference: Authentic Relationships across Diverse Communities
Building authentic relationships across diverse communities in the fight to protect Great Lakes Waters (Sandusky, Ohio) The 12th annual Great Lakes Restoration conference kicked off this morning with a moving keynote […]