100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge
November 15, 2023
The Great Lakes are home to a sizeable commercial fishery for diverse species such as Lake Whitefish, Yellow Perch, Walleye and Lake Trout. In most cases, only the fillets of…
Category: Ecosystem Services
Re-Energizing the Ecosystem Approach in the 21st Century
May 10, 2023
In 2022, the 50th anniversaries of the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the U.S. Clean Water Act were celebrated. This landmark Agreement and law, as well as many…
Why Protected Areas Must Consider What’s Beneath the Surface
April 19, 2023
New research published in the journal Nature Sustainability finds that 85% of protected areas with groundwater-dependent ecosystems have groundwatersheds that may be under-protected.
The Gist
Protected areas are one of…
Sustainable Great Lakes: A Regional Assessment of Sustainability in the Binational Great Lakes Megaregion
October 19, 2021
For over fifty years, governments around the world, including in Canada, have discussed the importance of sustainability or sustainable development.
One of the more prominent undertakings was the Rio Summit…
Climate Risks and Opportunities Across the Great Lakes: A Path For Green Stormwater Infrastructure
February 23, 2021
By Sanjiv Sinha, Ph.D., PE
“Flooding in the Chicago area has been so bad in the past decade that only places ravaged by hurricanes sustain more damage.”
So blared the…