Now NMC is ramping up its water expertise through a new course titled “Water Policy and Sustainability” that represents a new alliance with the Traverse City-based advocacy group FLOW — For Love of Water —- and its founder, Jim Olson.
Peter Sinclair is tall and brawny, and while the climate change communications expert looks like he could scale a mountain or scramble a glacier (and soon he will), he doesn’t look like a baseball player on steroids. What looks like a baseball player on steroids, he says, is climate change. While a baseball player on… Read more »
Northwestern Michigan College officials will expand NMC’s water studies programming through a course launching this fall with the help of a local water policy and education group. NMC and For Love of Water — or FLOW — joined to create the course “Water Policy and Sustainability.”
Click here to read the article in the Morning Sun. By Malachi Barrett May 24, 2014 Pure Michigan may not be as untainted as one would think. Environmental advocacy policy organization For Love of Water spoke in front of an assembly of students and faculty members at Alma College recently on the dangers facing the Great… Read more »
The Wayne State Engineering Building auditorium was full for Maude Barlow’s presentation on Great Lakes and Water Privatization issues. Artist Will See opened the evening bringing a poetic voice to describe the situation of water issues in Detroit. FLOW Founder Jim Olson discussed the public trust as the legal basis for preventing the privatization of… Read more »
FLOW Staff with Dr. Mike Vickery and the students from his Environmental Communications class at Alma College. The students were hard at work brainstorming new ideas and communications tactics for FLOW’s public trust education. FLOW had to opportunity to give a public presentation at Alma an had a great discussion on Water, Public Trust, and… Read more »
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Click here to read the article on Crawford County Avalanche By Dan Sanderson, Staff Writer – Crawford County Avalanche April 30, 2014 Grayling Charter Township is hosting an informational presentation regarding Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing, more commonly known as fracking for oil and gas, for area citizens. A organization called FLOW, For Love of Water, will… Read more »
Click here to read the article on Desmog By Derek Leahy, Desmog Canada March 6, 2014 Of the 30 million Canadians and Americans depending on the Great Lakes for water very few would guess there is an oil pipeline sitting in their drinking water supply. It is anyone’s guess if this 61-year old Enbridge pipeline,… Read more »
Click here to read the article on circleofblue.org Joint U.S.-Canada Agency Calls for Big Phosphorus Reductions in Lake Erie Curbing harmful algal blooms and oxygen-deprived dead zones in the Great Lakes requires pollution to be drastically reduced. By Codi Kozacek February 28, 2014 Current phosphorus targets for Lake Erie and its tributaries are not enough… Read more »
