Wildlife
Illinois pols won’t back separation; environmental groups whiff on carp report
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Opportunities of this magnitude to protect the Great Lakes are rare and don’t last forever.
Water
Great Lakes year in review: Tar sands, governors’ summit, budget battles and Waukesha
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Great Lakes Echo commentator Gary Wilson looks back at some of the biggest Great Lakes stories of 2013.
Water
Marketing water: Spin, platitudes and tired phrases
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How do we talk about water?
Great Lakes water isn’t a Big Mac. Or a Budweiser. Or bottled water.
We need talking points that inspire.
Echo
Don’t let myth-making distort Great Lakes progress
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Gary Wilson takes a look at some of the common myths surrounding the Great Lakes and how they have come to be perceived as realities.
Echo
Great Lakes Month in Review: Asian carp and petcoke
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Current State checks in monthly with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the basin. For today’s Great Lakes Month in Review, we’re focusing on petcoke piles and Asian carp.
Echo
The Great Lakes’ Sisyphean problem
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A Sisyphean task is one that is “endless and ineffective.”
Does protecting the Great Lakes fall under this definition?
Echo
Great Lakes Month in Review: Fracking, ballast and petcoke
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This Great Lakes Month in Review, focuses on fracking, ballast water and petcoke.
Echo
Great Lakes leaders: Choose good policy over convenient math and exaggerated rhetoric
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We’re trained to trust numbers when analyzing complex issues.
The assumption is that numbers don’t lie and will take us to the answer — the truth.
But is that always the case?
Echo
“Big Greens” can learn from criticism if they listen and reflect
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We all need an occasional wake-up call.
Hopefully that’s what Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein provided recently to “Big Green” environmental groups.
Klein says Big Green groups have adapted to the “rise of corporatist government”… and now believe that working through corporate partnerships should be a big part of the solution.
Water
IJC algae action, Waukesha request, fracking worries
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Each month Echo commentator Gary Wilson recaps news from around the basin.
This week, Gary reflects on Great Lakes Week, the International Joint Commission’s recommendations to fight algal blooms and water use in fracking.