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Book Review, Economic Development, Editorial, Great Lakes, Headline, Politics, Regionalism, The Environment »
Earlier this week, Rust Wire was thrilled to chat with Great Lakes journalist Jeff Alexander, author of Pandora’s Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway. The book details how opening the Great Lakes to international shipping traffic via the Seaway allowed a number of invasive species in that have hurt the Lakes. I recommend the book for anyone who is interested in understanding more about the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem and the changes it has undergone in the last several decades. -KG
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Economic Development, Great Lakes, Green Jobs, Headline, Labor »
This is a very big deal. Big.
The city of Cleveland was chosen as one of five cities to share $80 million in grant funding through the Livable Cities Initiative.
Funders were impressed, specifically, by the city’s efforts to establish cooperative workplaces to serve the region’s major employers–including the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital.
We’ve written before about the Evergreen laundry, where workers from the Hough neighborhood are earning a stake in the company for hours put in doing laundry for local institutions.
Brain Drain, Economic Development, Great Lakes, Real Estate, Regionalism, The Media »
Where, you ask?
Hamilton, Ontario, that is. At least, according to this story in the National Post that says the affordable and beautiful real estate appeals to those who are sick of Toronto prices.
I like to think this blog does a decent job of covering developments in the Rust Belt, from Buffalo to Milwaukee and beyond. But we haven’t spent much time studying our Canadian counterpart. It sounds like Hamilton has some interesting neighborhoods to explore.
And I gotta give credit where credit is due. I was alerted to this by a …
Economic Development, Great Lakes, Regionalism »
Less ice cover, declining lake levels, different weather patterns, harsher storms…listen to this interview from The Environment Report to learn more about climate change and the lakes.
Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have received $4.2 million in federal funds for a new research center to study these issues.
-KG
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Great Lakes, The Environment »
It has been a summer of bad news for the Great Lakes:
-Asian Carp invasion.
-Increased climate change-driven warming, in Lake Superior and elsewhere.
-Sewage runoff problems.
Sorry to keep bringing you down, but here’s two more stories, both from The Toledo Blade. This one is about threats to the Lake Erie islands, and this is a detailed investigative piece about the algae blooms that have infested the Lake this summer.
-KG
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