Letters to the Editor: September 1, 2023
Don’t forget about home care nurses
What’s being done about plastic trash getting into the Great Lakes?
By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
Filmmaker looks at Detroit through the lens of water, life events and justice
Making a film about water came naturally for award-winning documentary filmmaker dream hampton, though water and the environment has not traditionally been her emphasis.
hampton made Freshwater after coming off a hectic schedule in 2018 and 2019 during which she made three films. It was, she decided, a time to shift her focus, a time to be still and reflect.
Anishinaabe tribes work to save a fish significant to their culture and an important source of protein
By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
New Great Lakes book challenges readers with mystery, facts and whimsy
What is President Abraham Lincoln’s connection to a current vexing Great Lakes threat? Traveling south to Canada, right? And why would France go to court over a Great Lakes issue?
Those are some of the questions Traverse City author Dave Dempsey asks in his latest book, The Great Lakes: Fact or Fake.
Shoppers latest to ditch the plastic bag
Shoppers Drug Mart will stop offering plastic bags at its stores starting Tuesday.
Canada phasing out six types of single-use plastics
On December 20, the federal government will ban the manufacture and import of single-use items including checkout bags, cutlery, stir sticks, straws, and more.
Outdoors is the classroom for unique high school environmental course
While most London-area schoolkids were hitting the books the first week of classes, a group of nature-loving high schoolers were on a lake preparing for a series of upcoming learning adventures.
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Warm, drizzly, and foggy for trick-or-treaters
If it’s spooky weather you’re looking for, Environment Canada is calling for all the conditions that fit in with Monday evening’s Halloween celebrations.
West Grey Police offer Halloween safety advice
“Always walk on the sidewalk, cross at corners, watch out for traffic, carry a flashlight, stay with your group, don’t eat treats until they have been checked by an adult.”
Green-thinking Ivey students irked as school honours bank boss
Some students at Ivey Business School are chafing after learning Royal Bank of Canada’s top boss will receive the school’s prestigious business leader award Thursday, a day after a scathing review of the bank’s emission targets by a group of Indigenous and environmental groups was released.