Powering Forward: Accelerating the Bi-national Great Lakes Region’s Clean Energy Transition Report
The bi-national Great Lakes mega-region, home to 107 million Americans and Canadian and center of the United States-Canada economic partnership, enjoys a multitude of shared sectors and socio-economic strengths, as well as integrated assets such as inter-state and cross-border supply chains, transportation corridors, and energy systems between both countries, that connect, unify, and advantage the […]
Great Lakes Company Powers Solar & Seeks to Become Even More Sustainable
Few people realize that an essential material for solar energy comes from the Great Lakes region. Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC), located in Hemlock, Michigan, is one of the world’s leading producers of polycrystalline silicon, the preferred material of leading photovoltaic manufacturers. The path to solar energy requires significant energy, however, so when HSC CEO Mark Bassett, […]
Wanted: Healthy Food Sustainably Sourced
for a Hungry World
More than thirty of the world’s largest companies positioned squarely in the global food chain call the binational Great Lakes economic region home. And, with agriculture one of the primary land uses in the region, growing and producing food has always been a vital component of the Great Lakes’s economy. Ontario and Quebec, for example, […]