When the U.S. Senate abandoned greenhouse gas-curbing legislation, they also pulled the plug on 1.9 million new clean energy jobs, according to a report released by a coalition of business groups.

The Great Lakes states total of 481,000 jobs is around the nationwide average for people making new requests for unemployment benefits each week.

A Milwaukee aquapoinics company was recognized this week in the “Energy and Environment” section of the New York Times.
Save Water Organics was featured in a story about raising fish while growing water-based plants at the same time. The plants are grown on top of the fishpond. The fish waste supplies the plants with fertilizer, and the plants filter the water for the fish.
While the story came out of London, the writer focused on the techniques used at Sweet Water. It labels Milwaukee as the place where many of the …

New events in the Great Lakes aim to deal recycle items that can’t be recycled on the curbside and “Recycle Rama” is one such event.

Michigan could save billions of dollars if the state’s children weren’t made sick by toxic chemicals, according to a recent report by the Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health.

There is a new online campaign dealing with fisheries that people concerned about fishing in the Great Lakes might be interested in.
It has a strange but catchy name: Who Fishes Matters.
The campaign promotes awareness about who is fishing in the ocean and asks regulators to stop consolidating fishing permits for big businesses. Campaign officials say such consolidation gives control over fishing to those with money and fosters a corporate buyout of the industry.
The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance is behind the campaign and has created a particularly intriguing strategy to influence …

Each fall hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies migrate south for the winter. They’re found all over the country but are often spotted in Great Lakes states.

And you can help record their progress.

Cameron Davis, senior adviser on Great Lakes issues to the EPA’s administrator, was on Michigan State University’s campus Friday to announce Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants awarded in Michigan.

More than half of the bald eagle nests surveyed in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands contained birds that exceeded acceptable levels of a contaminant long since banned from use.

Mike Link and Kate Crowley, a couple from Willow River, Minn., know the answer to a variation on an old joke: How do you walk around Lake Superior?

One step at a time.

Deer mice once crossed the Great Lakes and into Michigan’s freshly glacier-free landscape. That surprising feat is unlikely to be repeated as a warming climate pushes them north to the tip of Michigan’s mitten. With animation.