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Tracking trail trees: Looking for horizontal shapes in a vertical world

ByGreat Lakes Echo

Native Americans once bent saplings to grow into directional markers. They signaled such things as where to cross a river and where to enter and exit trails. There are likely only a few hundred original trail trees left in the Great Lakes area. Some are over 200 years old.

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Community fridges: Radical solutions to food insecurity, waste and cultural stigmas

ByGreat Lakes Echo

In the Great Lakes region there are community fridges in such major cities as Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Cleveland and Toronto. Community fridges are working fridges, usually connected to an organization, that provide free food to passersby. The concept is to take what you need and bring what you can.

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