POLITICO Returns as Exclusive Media Partner to 2022 Great Lakes Economic Forum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY 19, 2022 ARLINGTON, VA – POLITICO, the world’s leading global news operation and information service specializing in politics and policy, today announced an exclusive media partnership with the Council of the Great Lakes Region. Continuing a relationship that started in 2019, the partnership is centered on the 2022 Great Lakes Economic Forum […]
Skilling the Workforce and Leading an Equitable Clean Energy Transition
Manufacturing regions have long been looking for a spark to revitalize communities and bring jobs to areas that have lost workers to automation and market transition. In Normal, Illinois, that spark has been found by way of electric vehicle manufacturing. The Great Lakes region is experiencing a renaissance of sorts in high-tech manufacturing that is […]
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World – Book Excerpt
An excerpt of Katharine Hayhoe’s 2021 book ‘Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World’
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 […]
Rebuilding America’s Economy and Foreign Policy with ‘Ally-Shoring’
By John Austin and Elaine Dezenski Last month, President Joe Biden came to Michigan to push America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles—or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China. In doing so, the president held out the prospect of more good-paying domestic jobs and reconfiguring our supply chains in […]
A Dimon in the Rough: JP Morgan Chase CEO’s Leadership Example
By The Honourable Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan In the neighborhood of 30,000 words, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chairman and chief executive officer Jamie Dimon’s 2020 letter to shareholders is a magnum opus. In thud factor terms, that’s about one third of the length of the average novel, but well worth the read. Dimon’s novel […]
Making Sustainability Accessible for Every Business & Organization: Diagnosis is Step 1
By Daniel Jacob There is no doubt that in order to ensure a future for all, businesses have to do their part in adopting better sustainable management practices, and it has been proven that companies who do encompass sustainability in their strategic decision-making garner greater returns: “Over the course of 2020, we have seen how […]
The Waste Free World: How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More, & Save the Planet
Ron Gonen’s 2021 book regarding the Circular Economy is based on his extensive work with the Closed Loop Fund.
For Immediate Release:
Circular Great Lakes Launches to Combat Plastic Waste and Pollution
Press Release March 31, 2021: Circular Great Lakes Launches to Combat Plastic Waste & Pollution