Green Stormwater Infrastructure Case Study: Davidson Park
Davidson Park is a signature Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) project developed through the Fresh Coast Protection Partnership (FCPP), a community-based partnership between CIS and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD). Located on the Harley-Davidson headquarters campus on the west side of Milwaukee, Davidson Park transformed what was a large employee parking lot into a signature […]
Great Lakes Region is Resource Rich, so why Aren’t Cities Greener?
The Great Lakes region has plenty of natural resources, yet the West Coast dominates a recent ranking of environmental policies of the nation’s 100 most populous cities. A recent report from WalletHub, “2022’s Greenest Cities in America,” ranked Buffalo, Madison, Cincinnati and Milwaukee among the Great Lakes region’s best for engaging in cleaner, more sustainable habits. […]
Recovery, Resiliency, Regeneration:
The Path to a Circular Economy in the Great Lakes Region
Climate change and the circular economy are inextricably linked. We cannot address one without the other. The tr.ansition requires recovery, resilience, and regeneration
Can Smart Cities Save the World?
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Smart Cities could save the world. But today, cities are killing it—at least the way we currently live in them. They consume two-thirds of global energy and produce 70% of the carbon emissions. And it’s a problem growing in size: the United Nations predicts at least 68% of the global population of nearly 10 billion […]
Time to Charge Ahead:
Great Lakes Region Requires Infrastructure to Power EVs
By Tom Van Heeke The automotive industry is undergoing profound changes. For its part, General Motors (GM) is on its way to an all-electric future with a plan to have 30 electric vehicles (EVs) in our global portfolio by the end of 2025 and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from our new light-duty vehicles […]
Climate Risks and Opportunities Across the Great Lakes: A Path For Green Stormwater Infrastructure
RISC publishes report outlining opportunities for Green Infrastructure across the Great Lakes Region to address climate risk.
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 […]
Smart, Sustainable Great Lakes Cities Regional Cluster: Launched by CGLR in 2019
The Council of the Great Lakes Region launched the binational Smart, Sustainable Great Lakes Cities Regional Cluster (the “Cluster”) as part of the Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) in September 2019. With a combined GDP of US$6.0 trillion in 2017, the Great Lakes Region, home to 107 million people, would equal the third largest economy […]
Harnessing Big Data Analytics to Improve Watershed Protection: CGLR & Pollution Probe 2018 Report
Pollution Probe and CGLR released the report, ‘Water Management and Big Data Analytics: Examination of Opportunities and Approaches to Leverage Data Science, Analytics and Advanced Computing to support Watershed Planning and the health of our Great Lakes Ecosystem’ July 2, 2019. This report was made possible thanks to generous funding from the RBC Foundation, and […]
Council of Great Lakes Region and Pollution Probe Release Report on Harnessing Big Data Analytics to Improve Watershed Protection
TORONTO, July 2, 2019 – Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region are pleased to announce the release of a new report, ‘Water Management and Big Data Analytics: Examination of Opportunities and Approaches to Leverage Data Science, Analytics and Advanced Computing to support Watershed Planning and the health of our Great Lakes’ […]