Premier Virtual Great Lakes Book Launch – “MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us”
Please enjoy the recording from this event (below) which is hosted on our YouTube channel along with Parag’s PDF presentation slides which you can download by clicking HERE. In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global […]
The Future of the Great Lakes Series – Water Infrastructure
Billions of dollars in spending are headed to North America’s communities, and investing in the nation’s water infrastructure has been made a major strategic priority. But where – and how – should those dollars be spent? And who is influencing those decisions? On September 9th, the Council of the Great Lakes Region teamed up with […]
The Future of the Great Lakes Series – Building the World’s Automobility Hub
The Great Lakes Region has always been a world leader in the future of the automobile. Now, the region is taking it to the next level — in automobility. As the global transportation industry retools to electric and autonomous vehicles, automobility is the opportunity to create new software, data technology, autonomous and electric vehicles, EV […]
#WaterSchoolChat
Water School Resources for Leaders to Learn
It may be the end of the school year for the kids, but school is in session for leaders in the Great Lakes Region. Water School, that is, and specifically the Michigan State University Extension Water School. The Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation and Michigan Sea Grant hosted a Water School Twitter […]
Electrifying Mobility
in the Great Lakes Region:
from EVs to Green Batteries
Apr 29 Event Summary
Explore the challenges & opportunities of electrifying mobility in the Great Lakes Region- from Electric Vehicles (EVs) to Green Batteries April 29
May 13: Our Electric Future–Renewables & Storage in the
Great Lakes Region
On May 13, the Council of the Great Lakes Region co-hosted a virtual event focusing on the huge opportunity for renewable energy and storage in the Great Lakes Region. As the world’s transportation, energy and infrastructure systems all embark on a massive electric transformation, the binational Great Lakes region can become the world’s clean energy […]
Green Stormwater Infrastructure: A Natural Response to Climate Risk
CGLR Mar 17 Event Summary
Green Stormwater Infrastructure: A Natural Response to Climate Risk Across the Great Lakes Region–March 17, 2021 event hosted by the Council of the Great Lake Region The combination of antiquated approaches to real estate development, loss of forest cover, outdated hydrologic conveyance systems, and increasingly extreme changes in weather patterns in the region, have led […]
CGLR Hosts Annual
General Meeting
March 3, 2021
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS Council of the Great Lakes Region (the “Corporation”) held their Annual Meeting of the Members via teleconference on March 3, 2021 for the following purposes: To receive the financial statements and Annual Report of the Corporation for the financial year: April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 To appoint […]
Powering Forward–
Accelerating Clean Energy Transition in the Great Lakes Region:Summary Jan 27 Event
CGLR hosted a virtual dialogue on clean energy Jan . 27, 2021 featuring OPG and CGLR Report for Accelerating Clean Energy in the Great Lakes Region
Valuing Nature & Ecosystem Services: Lessons Learned from Dow & The Nature Conservancy
What is the value of nature? Nature provides services that enable our very lives, but these services have rarely been valued in terms that allow us to include that value in key decisions—especially when it comes to business. Without visibility, they are often traded away inappropriately. Sustainable development requires that we be able to describe […]