We Need a New Playbook for East Palestine and Beyond
It seems inevitable that the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio would quickly become politicized. We don’t have a time machine to reset the clock and start over, but we can understand and learn from the better practices that might’ve been employed, and perhaps use them going forward for East Palestine and all future incidents […]
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, […]
COVID-19 Ready Reference
for Business & Communities in the Great Lakes Region
COVID-19. The tiny virus who could—and did–upend life as humans knew it prior to 2020, closing businesses, schools, governments, non-profits, communities, and borders in effort to contain the invisible, airborne, potential killer. By the end of March 2020, every one of the eight U.S. states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York) and […]
Combatting Opioid Crisis: 2018 Canada-U.S. Roundtable Outcomes
On September 24, 2018, over 100 senior level participants from governments, health care, civil society, academia and industry met in Washington, D.C. for the inaugural Canada-U.S. Roundtable on Strategies to Combat the Opioid Crisis. The event exchanged best practices in innovation to address problematic opioid use, including prevention, treatment and recovery, and identified opportunities for […]