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Great Lakes champs are part of the ecosystem they protect

By Guest Contributor | May 18, 2023

By Jada Vasser

A new book about the Great Lakes is written to reflect that their problems, solutions and champions are interrelated, much like the ecosystem it portrays. “This whole thing of bringing stakeholders together, creating a vision, co-producing knowledge, co-innovating solutions is in the book,” author John Hartig said. “You don’t get that anywhere else.”

Hartig’s “Great Lakes Champions: Grassroots Efforts to Clean Up Polluted Watersheds,” highlights 14 people who created programs and solutions to help communities that depend on the Great Lakes. These leaders took on the goal of restoring the Great Lakes through service and guidance.

Solutions

New NASA satellite helps scientists understand Great Lakes

Mapping currents allows scientists to understand the path pollution takes and maximize the efficiency of boats and vessels. 

Solutions

Could young students be Michigan’s next environmental stewards?

More tools and resources are becoming available to teachers wanting to pursue environmental curriculum.

Solutions

Breaking ground and cracking ammonia

Fertilizer produced at local levels could reduce costs and carbon emissions related to transport.

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Schools replace old-fashioned drinking fountains
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Climate

  • Commentary: Global warming, climate change and my ice cream

    Situated at the end of town by the Flat River, Ball’s Softee Creme is the perfect place to grab an ice cream cone with friends during the summer months. However, climate change has summer shops like Ball's Softee Creme opening two months earlier than years prior.

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Water quality

  • Detroiters can get another 1,125 gallons of water under discount program

    Detroit water rates have gone up 407% over the last 20 years, and 120% in just the last 10 years.

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Invaders

  • Ancient invention may safely move fish across barriers while blocking invaders, study finds

    In the course of 11 days, a device dating back to 234 B.C. successfully transported 704 fish across the Cheboygan Dam in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula with no injuries observed.

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Wildlife

  • Creating habitat to help fish reproduce is costlier, but more effective than restoring it

    Habitat restoration can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of time and the collaborative effort of engineers, scientists and designers. It may be better to just start from scratch. 

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Energy

  • MiWaterNet monitors quality of northern Michigan streams

    This network provides valuable, real time data on a stream’s water quality, level and temperature. 

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Art

  • Detroit group reduces waste and improves education by merging art and science 

    The organization teaches kids at its brick and mortar building or travels to communities with a bus filled with recycled materials.

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Law

  • Feds mum about yellow-faced grassquit trafficker

    The grassquit is a small bird that lives in grassy and weedy subtropical and tropical areas.

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Nearshore

  • Shocking news for Michigan fish

    Walleye and pike surveys start in early spring, followed by muskie surveys. In May, the DNR starts surveying general fish communities like panfish and bass, and from July to September it surveys streams.

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Urban

  • Great Lakes region is resource rich, so why aren’t cities ‘greener’?

    A recent report from WalletHub, “2022’s Greenest Cities in America,” ranked Buffalo, Madison, Cincinnati and Milwaukee among the Great Lakes region’s best for engaging in cleaner, more sustainable habits.

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Farm

  • Minnesota farmer accused of multimillion dollar organic grain scam

    A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota farmer for allegedly cheating buyers of more than $46 million by falsely labeling non-GMO soybeans and corn as organic.

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Waste

  • Cities of tomorrow are surprisingly old

    A new report by RentCafe documents the nationwide trend. So-called adaptive reuse apartments are more popular than new apartment developments from 2020-2021, the study says. 

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Recreation

  • Michigan’s Magnet Man attracts river trash

    The heaviest thing that he has found is a full-sized safe in the Rouge River in Delray, Michigan, taking seven people with magnets and hooks to pull it out.

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Commentary

  • Commentary: Nature and fashion

    Finding out what fabric something is made of, the process behind it and everything in between only made me love fashion more. 

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Catch of the Day

  • Great Lakes Environmental Film Festival showcases climate change

    The event brings people together to see a vision of how we can better our environment

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Podcasts

  • First-ever transit service hovercraft in North America plans to hit the water in summer 2023

    More modern versions have switched to a more conventional diesel engine, much quieter and much more fuel- efficient.

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COVID-19

  • Communities welcome return of winter festivals

    By Sammy Schuck Most people may know that festivals attract people to Michigan communities. What most may not know is that festivals and events in the state are an annual $1 billion industry, according to Michigan Festivals and Events Association CEO Mike Szukhent. According to Szukhent, the lack of winter festivals last year “hit hard.” […]

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