Love water?
Sitting in a basin containing 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface supply of the stuff will do that to you.
That’s why we think someone from the Echo news community should win this year’s EPA Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder contest.
This is a photo, essay, poetry and dance contest.
Teams consist of two or more people – at least one younger, one older. The idea is not only cross generational, but multi-organism. EPA says that video dance entries might star birds, trees, rivers.
This year’s contest celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, prompting the federal agency to rename it the Sense of Water contest. The deadline is June 1. Information here.
Carson is the author of the seminal Silent Spring, a book that documented the impact of pesticides on birds. Research cited in that book was conducted at Michigan State University. That research, and the controversy it generated, is the subject of a documentary produced by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism – the parent institution of Great Lakes Echo.