Echo
VIDEO: Chicago canal carp kill roundup
|
Dec. 5, 2009
Michigan Now has an audio report of the Chicago canal carp kill. (And by audio, we don’t mean you can hear carp scream.)
And here’s a roundup of carp stories. Broadcast news report:
Echo
Nominate Great Lakes videos, win prizes
|
We’re looking for the best of the best Great Lakes videos on the web. And you can help. Send us a nomination and explain why it is worthy of recognition. The Great Lakes Echo staff will narrow the nominees to 10. Then we’ll ask readers to vote on their favorite of the finalists. It’s sort of like American Idol, but wetter.
Echo
Quiz: Which Great Lakes invasive species is your former significant other?
|
By Great Lakes Echo
Nov. 18, 2009
With help from readers, the Great Lakes Echo staff has developed another environmental Facebook quiz. Take this one to find out which Great Lakes invasive species is most like your former significant other. As a bonus you may learn a bit about those plants and animals upsetting the ecology of the largest body of fresh surface water in the world. On the other hand, you may just gain a new nickname for your ex.
Echo
New Great Lakes quiz
|
Echo’s quiz matching you with a Great Lake went so well that we’re developing another. The twist:
It’s about Great Lakes invasive species, a group that few people ascribe characteristics with which they associate themselves. So we’re trying another tack:
Which Great Lakes invasive species is your former significant other? There is some low-hanging fruit – people who continue to cling to their exes like zebra mussels or suck the life out of them like sea lampreys. But you’re more creative than that.
Echo
Rate your climate change concern
|
This survey shows where you fall on the spectrum of American attitudes toward climate change. This Echo story reports that Great Lakes residents worry less about it than the national average.
Echo
Column: Which Great Lake are you?
|
By David Poulson
Oct. 14, 2009
I recently took one of those Facebook quizzes for my favorite television series: Which character on House are you? It turns out that I am most like the good doctor himself. Made sense to me — you know with the keen wit and brilliant mind. My wife agreed, but she thought it had more to do with the grouchy disposition.