The Value of Water
The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.
The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.
Sarah Chasis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
A national ocean policy will help New York, the East Coast and the entire country better address all of these issues that affect its ocean and its Great Lakes resources.
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Cleanup of the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes is moving so slowly it will take 77 more years to finish the job at...
Henry Henderson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
The only thing protecting Lake Michigan from the menace of a voracious invading predator that all agree will decimate the ecosystem is a quirky Rube Goldberg contraption.
Sarah Chasis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
The US needs a comprehensive policy to protect our ocean, coasts and Great Lakes today and for future generations. Right now, our oceans are governed by over 140 laws and 20 different agencies.
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama's i...
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and remo...
AP | Posted 06.01.2009 | Chicago
DETROIT (AP) -- An engineering study says Lake Michigan and Lake Huron aren't losing billions of gallons of extra water daily through an artificially ...
Debra Shore | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago
Our dependence on water links us with much of the rest of creation. So why are we so cavalier about the single element upon which our lives utterly depend?
Michael Markarian | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
Should gray wolves be stripped from the Endangered Species list, they would be subjected to widespread killings at the hands of hostile state wildlife agencies.
Debra Shore | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago
For Chicago and our region to have a robust economy - and a healthy ecology - for the 21st century, we will be asked to embrace a new paradigm, that of stewardship.
AP | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago
A multistate treaty to limit use of Great Lakes water goes into effect Monday. The Great Lakes Compact generally bars large-scale, long-distance with...
Karen Dionne | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
Recently, governors and legislatures... approved the Great Lakes Compact, a landmark agreement that bans the sale and diversion of water outside the region.
AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The Great Lakes are ailing, scientists warn, on the verge of ecological ruin from big-city sewage and invasive species. P...
Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 10.25.2008 | Chicago
The Great Lakes account for about 20 percent of the world's surface freshwater and 84 percent of North America's, and the region has extraordinary pol...
AP | John Flesher | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Sen. Barack Obama will propose a $5 billion trust fund for Great Lakes cleanup and restoration if elected president, his ...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business
Oil prices tripled since 2003. Sunshine for the economies of metro areas on the Gulf of Mexico, but a cloud over the metros on the Great Lakes.
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago