Going Big: Dow CEO Calls for Bold Climate Protection
Dow CEO and Chairman Jim Fitterling calls for bold action for climate protection.
Shifting to a Circular Economy:
P&G’s iMFLUX Technology Increases Use of Recycled Plastic
iMFLUX enables high performance plastic parts from recycled resin, creating demand for a truly circular economy for the material.
CGLR Continues Virtual Dialogues in 2021
“Seek first to understand,” said Stephen Covey, in his groundbreaking work, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “Then to be understood.” Some thirty years later, it’s still true, and the purpose of establishing a series of dialogues for the Great Lakes Region. Starting in September 2020, the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) undertook […]
Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Initiative installs ‘Capture’Technology with support from Nova Chemicals
Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup installs capture technology ‘seabin’ with sponsorship from Nova Chemicals
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, […]
Strategic Corporate
Conservation Planning:
A Guide to Meaningful Engagement
Margaret O’Gorman’s 2020 book is aimed at building healthier relationships between business and the environment. “Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning” distills lessons from O’Gorman’s work–many examples of which are in the Great Lakes region– into fresh insights for corporations and environmental groups looking to create mutually beneficial partnerships. The following is an excerpt from her book, […]
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, […]
CGLR Program
Circular Great Lakes:
Forging a Future Without Waste
Valuable materials are lost to landfills and the environment, especially plastics. In fact, it is estimated that 22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes every year. Creating a binational Great Lakes circular economy and cleaning up marine litter is one way to close the loop and keep critical materials cycling through the regional economy.
Creating the Circular Economy in the Great Lakes Region: Lessons from the Field
A new report uses Circular Value Chain and Recovery and Reuse models to looks at three materials streams—steel, plastics, and pulp and paper—and identifies both the potential economic savings and environmental savings by 2050
$2.2 Billion Requested of Canadian Government to Address Flooding and Contamination in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Collaborative released today Action Plan to Protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence, 2020-2030.