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Waves of Change

A digital series highlighting the diverse people and perspectives shaping the environmental justice landscape throughout the Great Lakes.

More from Great Lakes Now

Cheryl Porter’s vision for the future of water
- by Great Lakes Now

With 28 years of experience in the water sector, Cheryl Porter shares her inspiring journey from junior chemist in Detroit to leading the American Water Works Association.

Michigan advocates hail ‘groundbreaking’ settlement to civil rights complaint over hazardous waste facility
- by Planet Detroit

New requirements to consider cumulative impacts in hazardous waste facility licensing could represent a shift in state permitting practices.

Foraged Fruit and Nuts: Wild Apples & Abundant Acorns
- by Lisa M. Rose

Autumn brings with it a bounty of fruits and nuts that often go unnoticed in our modern culinary landscape. Among the most abundant and overlooked are acorns and wild apples.

Great Lakes Moment: Ten natural wonders of The Great Lakes Way
- by John Hartig

Get your bicycle or kayak ready and consider adding these close-to-home natural wonders to your Great Lakes adventure bucket list.

Points North: A Natural Ending
- by Interlochen Public Radio

Peter Quakenbush’s dream is to create a conservation burial forest – a place that would both preserve the woods and give people the option to be buried in nature. But not everyone is on board with that idea.

‘These are not your lands to give away’: 6 First Nations take Ontario to court over mining law
- by The Narwhal

Indigenous communities in Ontario are flooded with mining claims that chip away at their territories. It’s a “racist, colonialist” system, the lawyer leading a new court case said.

Nibi Chronicles: A conversation about Ojibwe history in Fur Trade Nation
- by Staci Lola Drouillard

On Carl Gawboy’s new book Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History and how it’s “a field guide to the Ojibwe.”

Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows
- by The Conversation

New research shows that Americans have positive feelings toward nature but also detects strong undertones of longing, guilt and worry.

Southeast Michigan facility will soon house waste from the Manhattan Project
- by Michigan Public

A southeast Michigan waste disposal site will soon be home to nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop an atomic bomb.