Sunset over Georgian Bay, Georgian Bay Association Over the holidays I enjoyed a dinner with friends we rarely get to see, and our conversation rolled around to what everyone was doing these days. I mentioned the volunteer work I do for Great Lakes Ecoregion Network, and that the new year would bring the required public forum for the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) review. Realizing that not everyone knows about the Agreement, and prompted by one of my friends, I

Close look at server aisles at the New Albany Data-Center campus in Central Ohio. (Google photo) In these politically turbulent times, we’ve witnessed a rise in widespread public response of protest and resistance in many forms—primarily against federal policies and actions driven by the current U.S. administration, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Something different has been rising in the public response to the push to rapidly develop a wave of new data centers for arti

Our guest blogger for this post is John Jackson, who has been one of Canada’s most dedicated champions of Great Lakes protection for decades. In addition to serving in many roles for Great Lakes advocacy groups, John is a founding member of Great Lakes Ecoregion Network. The first two posts  in this series emphasized why radionuclides should be designated as CMCs. In 2016 and again in 2022, 110 environmental, health and other advocacy groups nominated radionuclides to be name

This post by Great Lakes Together editor, Jane Elder, is the second in a three-part series on radionuclides in the Great Lakes region. Please note that there was an error in last week’s post, where the Three Mile Island incident was erroneously dated as 1973, but the correct date is 1979. We corrected the Substack post and the GLEN website post as soon as we discovered the error. One of the uncomfortable topics of living in the nuclear age is how to manage radioactive materia

This Great Lakes Together Blog is the first in a three-part series on radionuclides in the Great Lakes region. Today’s post is by guest author Barry Boyer. Barry Boyer is Professor of Law Emeritus and former Dean of the Law School at the State University of New York at Buffalo. At the Law School, he taught courses in Environmental and Administrative Law, and health and safety regulation. Boyer has been active in a variety of environmental organizations, including serving as a

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The Great Lakes Ecoregion Network (GLEN) is starting a new Substack blog, Great Lakes Together , to foster transboundary cooperation and...