A two-hour broadcast under the panel discussion tab of this viewer from Great Lakes Now explores how the natural resources of the Great Lakes basin sustain our way of life.
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Two panels of experts discuss how businesses and municipalities are investing in nature, and how those investments not only preserve lifestyle but can actually make their business more competitive.
Panel 1: Ecosystem services: Nature’s benefits to people, economies and quality of life, Moderated by Katie Kahl
- Jon Fosgitt, Forest Management Specialist, Compass Land Consultants
- Steve Polasky, Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological & Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota
- Heather Stirratt, Great Lakes Regional Coordinator for NOAA’s National Ocean Service at NOAA Coastal Services Center (MN).
- Amanda Weinstein, Economics Department, University of Akron
Panel 2: How should we invest to protect our future? Public and private examples of natural investments, Moderated by Patrick Doran
- Jon Allan, Director, Office of the Great Lakes
- Skiles Boyd, Vice President, Environmental Affairs DTE Energy; Board of Council of Great Lakes Industries
- Kent Gilges, Managing Director, Conservation Forestry
- Kevin Schafer, Executive Director, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Well that’s a warm fuzzy feel good presentation except that the people or foe we are up against usually have deep pockets. Take the New York Power Authority for instance. They don’t care one bit about they destruction they cause with the use of their ice boom. It increases profits by 3% so everybody else can deal with the problems caused by inhibiting the normal CYCLE of ice out. For 12,000 years that nearly 10,000 square mile sheet of Lake Erie ice cover made it’s way to Lake Ontario. Not all of it makes it but all of it moved and that was the key. Enormous pressure replenished beaches, scrubbed spawning beds, moved nutrients and carried away waste. No2 it all sits and decays. Wake up folks! Ice Boom Theory explains it all simply and elegantly. The way nature works. THX Joe Barrett of http://www.bantheboom.com