This Week: Great
Lakes Restoration Topics Online:
WHO DO YOU
TRUST TO MANAGE GREAT LAKES RESTORATION?
VOTE ON OUR WEB POLL . . .
In the US,
a multi-billion dollar restoration package has been proposed for the Great Lakes. Potential projects include new sewer
systems, wildlife habitat protection, and more. But who is best suited to
manage the funds and restore the lakes?
Vote on the Great
Lakes Town Hall
homepage Web Poll at www.greatlakestownhall.org!
THE DETROIT PISTONS, CREDIT CARDS AND GREAT
LAKES RESTORATION?
Find out what these have in common, and more, as Keith
Dimoff, Deputy Director for the Ohio Environmental Council, serves as guest
speaker with original essays each day this week. At the Ohio
Environmental Council, Keith has helped to develop the Clean Water
Program’s outreach to local watershed groups, workshops and conferences,
in addition to his policy and legal advocacy at the Statehouse and with state agencies.
He has been with the OEC since 1998, and previously worked for five years at
the Ohio EPA. Read and respond to all of Keith’s essays this week
at www.greatlakestownhall.org.
UNITED
WE STAND, DIVIDED WE RESTORE?
In addition to guest speakers, the Great
Lakes Town Hall
focuses on a new featured Great Lakes issue
each week. This week
Town Hall Co-moderator
Jeffrey Potter ponders the question: United
We Stand, Divided We Restore? "The Great
Lakes cannot be protected or restored unless we see a
collaborative effort, but that effort might be too daunting if we don’t
focus on the bits and pieces." Read and respond to this short essay
at www.greatlakestownhall.org.