Players build water systems while challenged by pollution, runaway growth, drought and mismanagement. Designers hope to will improve understanding of and support for a system largely out of sight and taken for granted.
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Defining domicology: Study of practices and consequences of abandoning buildings
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What’s in a name? For domicologists it signifies dawning awareness of a wasteful culture—and an emerging industry.
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Vote for your favorite natural feature in the Great Lakes region
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What’s the best Great Lakes destination for natural beauty? It’s time for our readers to decide.
Energy
Report lists alternatives to controversial oil pipeline beneath Mackinac Bridge
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One option has caught the interest of Michigan’s attorney general. But environmental groups aren’t pleased with any of them.
Green Gavel
Ohio contractor sent to prison in asbestos case
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He admitted improper demolition leading to the release of the hazardous air pollutant linked to respiratory diseases and cancer.
Water quality
Can’t fix waterworks without knowing how water works
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Few people can depict how water gets to the tap and where it goes after it hits the drain, an ignorance that requires a disaster to generate support to upgrade an aging system of pipes and treatment.
recreation
Great Features of the Great Lakes region: Quebec
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Whales in the Great Lakes? Not quite. But Great Lakes water is hugely influential on whales, justifying a nod to Quebec to round out our list of Great Lakes-related great natural features.
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Great features of the Great Lakes region: Ontario
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A treacherous hike along the rocky shoreline leads to sacred pictographs at Superior Provincial Park in Ontario.
Agriculture
Lantern litter threatens livestock, wildlife, environment
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Some farmers, environmentalist and lawmakers would like to ban sky lanterns increasingly used to celebrate Independence Day and other events.
Recreation
Great features of the Great Lakes region: New York
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New York’s Panama Rocks is the Jurassic Park of the Great Lakes basin. Visitors can hike, climb and explore the area’s ancient caves.
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Great features of the Great Lakes Region: Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania claims a small piece of Great Lake’s shoreline but makes the most of it with a picturesque and primitive shoreline park.