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of the Great Lake Region The combination of antiquated approaches to real estate development, loss of forest cover, outdated hydrologic conveyance systems, and increasingly extreme changes in weather patterns in the region, have led […]

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 […]

Shifting to a Circular Economy: Lessons from Great Lakes Leaders O-I Glass & Clarios

For more information on the commitment to the circular economy in the Great Lakes, see our Circular Great Lakes Initiative. For the latest in responsible batteries and EVs, see ‘Electrifying Mobility in the Great Lakes Region.’ The Circular Economy is getting a lot of attention these days, but it’s nothing new to Clarios, the world’s […]

CGLR Launches Ontario Materials Marketplace with Pollution Probe and US Business Council for Sustainable Development

This summer, CGLR joined with Pollution Probe and the US Business Council for Sustainable Development to launch the Ontario Materials Marketplace. Made possible with funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Ontario Materials Marketplace connects businesses and institutions to develop and scale new reuse and recycling market opportunities. During Wednesday’s event, Mark Fisher, President […]

International Joint Commission Boards’ Webinar on High Water Levels in Great Lakes

July 17, 2020 The International Lake Superior Board of Control, the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board and the International Niagara Board of Control co-hosted a webinar on the historically high water levels in the Great Lakes, Friday, July 17, 2020.  The webinar provided an overview of why the Great Lakes are at their current […]

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