Future Now: Building Tomorrow’s Workforce, Innovations, and Businesses Today
The Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium (GLHEC) was launched in 2020 to facilitate a new era of cross-border, institutional collaboration in the bi-national Great Lakes region with a focus on three overarching priorities for strengthening the region’s long-term competitiveness and sustainability – skills and talent development, research and innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Forging a Future Without Waste and Litter
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.
Safeguarding our Freshwater Resources
The Great Lakes freshwater system is not an infinite source of water, and resources must be used wisely and protected from contamination, pollution, and misuse. The Great Lakes business community is recognizing they must be stewards of these waters, and supporting them is Great Lakes WISE. Great Lakes WISE (Water Innovation and Stewardship Exchange) is a platform that convenes business leaders committed to advancing their water stewardship and corporate sustainability, providing peer-to-peer networking, knowledge sharing, and information exchange.
Decarbonizing our Future
The bi-national Great Lakes region is North America’s economic engine and the main driver of the United States – Canada economic partnership. As both countries seek collaborations and projects between business, government, academia and the non-profit sector to achieve a low-carbon future as part of the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership, the region can lead the way in designing decarbonization strategies and techniques on a regional, cross-border scale.
Groundbreaking initiative provides update on data collection and community impact in the fight to clean up the waterways of the Great Lakes region. TORONTO – July 16, 2024 – An …
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Donation will help improve water and wildlife quality in river corridors throughout Wisconsin. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Midwest retailer Meijer is continuing its commitment to Great Lakes stewardship with …
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Initiative will advance business sustainability and accelerate corporate water stewardship in the US-Canada Great Lakes region. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MARCH 28, 2024 In recognition of World Water Day 2024, the …
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