Feb 10
Politics, schmolotics: Canadian and U.S. mayors work across the aisle for clean water—listen up: Cities vote yes to teaming up for the Great Lakes The art of compromise is alive and well, at least for the mayors who have come together as part of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Cities Initiative. CurrentCast caught up …
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Feb 02
The Steel City gets a green (and pink and purple) makeover: Steel City waterways are getting cleaner and more scenic thanks to new trees… more than 25,000 have been planted in the city since 2008. Called ‘Treevitalize Pittsburgh,’ the initiative provides shade and helps protect water by reducing polluted runoff. According to Jeffrey Bergman of …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.currentcast.org/stormwater-management/pittsburgh-banks-on-riverfront-trees/
Dec 20
Elevators and water slides for fish may sound straight out of Dr. Seuss—but they actually exist in Michigan. Listen up: Sturgeon go back to their home river to spawn. And for half the sturgeon in Lake Michigan, that means the Menominee River. But hydroelectric dams block the river, forcing the fish to lay their eggs …
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Aug 16
Millions of volunteers have been cleaning up American rivers for the last quarter of a century—listen up: Rivers and streams provide drinking water and wildlife habitat, yet millions of tons of trash end up in our waterways each year. So, in the early ’90s, the American Rivers launched a National River Cleanup Week in order …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.currentcast.org/restoration-and-conservation-initiatives/25-years-of-cleaner-rivers/
Jun 11
—Morgan Linn, Great Lakes Echo* A robot designed by a maker in Toronto could soon be clearing up trash strewn across shorelines everywhere. Erin Kennedy is the founder of the project to design a robot to collect trash on rough shorelines that would otherwise be difficult to clean up. She used a 3D printer to print …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.currentcast.org/restoration-and-conservation-initiatives/robot-cleans-up-great-lakes/
