COMMENTARY: Senate needs to pass clean energy act to help Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press (10/26)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was absolutely correct with his recent proclamation about the current condition of the Great Lakes State: "The State of Michigan," Reid declared from the Senate Floor, with a copy Time Magazine in his hand, "is in trouble."

First Nation women 'walk the environmental talk'
WeNews (10/23)
Tomorrow's global day of climate activism aims for media and political attention. First Nation women have another way. Since 2003, they've walked the shoreline of a Great Lake or major river, meditating on the needs of an unborn generation.

City making big push for water school
The Business Journal (10/23)
The push is on to convince the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that the best location for its new School of Freshwater Sciences is near the university’s existing Great Lakes Water Institute on East Greenfield Avenue.

Students work to spread word about zebra mussels
Daily Globe (10/22)
After a recent field trip to Lake L’Homme Dieu turned up more zebra mussels than they bargained for, students in John Esbjornsson’s environmental science classes at Jefferson High School (JHS) knew they needed to do more.

Wind turbine research heads into Lake Michigan
Chicago Tribune (10/19)
Grand Valley State University's wind turbine testing project is heading into Lake Michigan.

Ducks to attack phragmites
The Bay City Times (10/14)
Ducks Unlimited, the conservation group, has received $155,000 to fight phragmites, the invasive reed that lines much of Saginaw Bay and grows aggressively in other areas of the Great Lakes.