Great Lakes Institute for Sustainable Systems

09/02/2023

07/11/2023

Combined sewer overflow headed to southern Lake Michigan….Let’s see if MDEGLE takes appropriate enforcement action on this case….

The 500,000 gallons of untreated wastewater, including f***l matter, started spilling into the river around 9:30 p.m., Friday, July 7.

07/03/2019

Independence Day for the Great Lakes Institute for Sustainable Sytems! Effective 1July2019 we will no longer be housed at Central Michigan University. We are moving forward as a private, non-profit advocacy and consulting group working on sustainability projects in the Great Lakes basin and around the world. Please share this notice widely. We can save the planet working together!

06/13/2019

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/06/13/michigan-climate-change-wetter-springs-hotter-summers/1298208001/?fbclid=IwAR04MYQdOTEliWF4gbUY-aaqGpNHbrQx7lREhRRiq4Wz8ln8mIdUAMiQqWk

Climate change projections for the Great Lakes region show heavy rains getting heavier and a nearly 10% increase in precipitation already

04/25/2019

https://www.cmich.edu/news/article/pages/community_engagement-awards-2019.aspx

04/11/2019

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2019_maumee/

Over half of the manure in the Maumee River watershed comes from an exploding number of unregulated factory farms, a new EWG investigation reveals.

03/29/2019

Lots of interesting new perspectives showing up lately.....

Businesses and politicians should be liable for the harm they do, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

02/22/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/19/lake-erie-pollution-personhood-status-toledo?fbclid=IwAR3grV97R5rfaiWgrvIRhpU4nb116ct-M2Hm7IfKiXadp6rE18a7eWqJ-bk

The controversial legal bill will allow citizens to sue a polluter on behalf of the lake and for penalties to be imposed

01/11/2019

http://www.climateaction.org/news/warming-oceans-to-raise-sea-levels-30cm-by-2100-study-finds?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Warming+oceans+to+raise+sea+levels+30cm+by+2100%2C+study+finds+-+Climate+Action+News&utm_campaign=CA+Newsletter+11th+January+2019

A new study has found that oceans are warming even faster than previously thought.

12/14/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/01/climate/climate-policy-maps.html?fbclid=IwAR0rms6TwTxSE165RpGoMgu3Azh63UPTlLV7x7Qjdk-hwGKodER-LEJuEYw

Americans are politically divided over climate change, but there’s broader consensus around some of the solutions.