Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper feat. Isle Royale Greenstone
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational, and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they'll focus on Isle Royale Greenstone, or Chlorastrolite, Michigan's State Gemstone!
Featured guests include:
--Jordan DeWitt , rockhound and author of "Isle Royale Greenstone: Exploring Michigan's State Gemstone"
--Gary Katt, rockhound, scuba diver, and jewelry maker. Gary makes trips throughout the year to collect rocks and minerals in the Keweenaw Peninsula, home of the greenstone
Great Lakes Now June Episode Premiere Party
Join Great Lakes Now for the premiere party for our new episode! This time we'll check out a segment about the joys and learning opportunities in foraging for wild foods and medicinal plants, and then a LIVE conversation with GLN Contributor and Resident Great Lakes Forager Lisa M. Rose!
Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper ft. Lake Superior Agates
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they'll focus on Lake Superior Agates with the self-proclaimed "Agate Lady" Karen Brzys!
WEBINAR: Unlocking environmental justice with Michigan’s Justice40 initiative
Join us on June 17 at 11 a.m. to learn how to leverage the newly launched statewide MI Justice40 Technical Assistance Accelerator! Operated by Elevate, the first state-backed support system will be an opportunity for 20-25 Michigan based community organizations to receive funding and technical assistance to help them acquire federal support for clean energy projects.
Justice40 is a national initiative to direct 40 percent of the benefits of federal climate and clean energy investments to “disadvantaged communities.”
Join us to learn about the new opportunity to bring these taxpayer dollars back to your community.
Panelists:
Hudson Villeneuve, Senior Program Manager, Justice 40 Accelerator, Elevate
Latia Leonard, Director of Community Engagement, Justice 40 Accelerator
Donele Wilkins, Director, Green Door Initiative, national accelerator participant
The webinar will be moderated by Nina Ignaczak, Editor of Planet Detroit.
SUBMIT a question here: https://mailchi.mp/planetdetroit.org/46gbsqx58x
LEARN more about the accelerator: https://www.michigan.gov/egle/regulatory-assistance/grants-and-financing/multi/justice40
READ more about why this effort is critical to cities like Detroit: https://planetdetroit.org/2021/07/opinion-why-justice40-initiatives-aim-to-direct-40-of-the-federal-clean-energy-investments-to-cities-like-detroit-is-critical/
Great Lakes Now Presents: Rockhounding with Chris Cooper feat. Yooperlite!
Join Great Lakes Now Host Anna Sysling and Chris Cooper of Great Lakes Rocks & Minerals for a fun, educational and engaging live event all about rockhounding in the Great Lakes! This time, they'll focus Yooperlite--what it is, why it's special and how to find it!
Our featured guest for this event is Erik Rintamaki, who years ago, discovered a rock that glows under an ultraviolet light. Without knowing what it was or why the rocks glowed, he named them “Yooperlites."
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🗓️ Coming up on Friday at 11 a.m.!
Join us to discuss what’s next after Southeast Michigan earned a "C" in first-ever watershed report card. You'll hear from Huron River Watershed Council and Friends of the Rouge, and join the audience Q&A. Sign up now: https://buff.ly/4b9v3RW
Great Lakes Now April Episode Premiere Party
Join Great Lakes Now for an episode premiere party featuring a segment from the new April show and guests who will share even more insight and information about our featured story.
Featured guests include:
--Tom Hollenhorst, Ecologist with the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development in the Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division
--John Shepard, Filmmaker, A Sea Change for Superior; and Associate Professor and Director of Multimedia Development at Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education
--Michael Miller, Swimmer and co-lead for the Lake Superior North Shore Relay Swimmers
PBS Virtual Climate Town Hall: 'Poisoned Ground' and Environmental Policy
Join Great Lakes Now for a PBS Virtual Town Hall featuring American Experience's "Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal," which tells the dramatic and inspiring story of ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY, discovered that their homes, schools, and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.
This town hall will feature video clips from the film, a conversation with American Experience Executive Producer Cameo George, a live panel discussion about the lasting impacts of the Love Canal environmental disaster. We'll also take a look at the Superfund cleanup program, and discuss how other environmental disasters in the Great Lakes shaped the creation of additional policies related to cleanup and remediation efforts in the region and beyond.
Featured guests include:
--Kim Diana Connolly, Professor and Vice Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinarity and Community Impact at University of Buffalo School of Law
--Monica Lewis-Patrick, educator, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. She has served as Director of Community Outreach & Engagement for We The People of Detroit since 2009, and was unanimously elected to become the organization’s President & CEO. Monica is known throughout the environmental justice community as The Water Warrior.
--Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement and Director of Engagement at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) and Michigan Sea Grant (MISG). Mike is part of the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability
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Planet Detroit founder Nina Ignaczak hosted the latest episode of #factsmatter by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, breaking down parking mandates and how they stand in the way of community development. Listen to a snippet 👇 and the full episode on the @crcmich SoundCloud 📻 https://buff.ly/3VyC3mS
Virtual Town Hall: Citizen Science and the Solar Eclipse
It's almost time for the Solar Eclipse of 2024! Join Great Lakes Now, NOVA, SciStarter, the American Astronomical Society, Michigan Learning Channel and PBS Books as we dig into the science of the solar eclipse with astrophysicists, get the details on eclipse citizen science initiatives, and watch a clip from NOVA's "Great American Eclipse" special too!
Great Lakes Now Contributor Capri Cafaro will moderate this educational and engaging discussion, and we'll take your questions and comments for our panel of experts during this LIVE town hall event.
Featured guests include:
--Caitlin Saks, Senior Producer, NOVA
--Debra Ross, Chair of the Rochester NY Task Force for Eclipse 2024 and Co-chair of the American Astronomical Society Solar Eclipse Task Force
--Henry “Trae” Winter III, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
at Advanced Research in Inclusion & STEAM Accessibility (ARISA) Lab, L.L.C.
--Angela Speck, Chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Co-chair of the of the American Astronomical Society Solar Eclipse Task Force
Archaeological Dig Site - GLN January Episode Premiere Party
Do you dig archaeology? Join Great Lakes Now for our January episode premiere party! We'll check out a segment all about an incredible archeological dig site in southwest Michigan, and how what scientists are learning there about ancient artifacts is changing what we know about early civilization.
We'll talk with experts and YOU to learn even more about the topic of Great Lakes archaeology and the Clovis culture, and get answers to YOUR questions!
Featured Guests include:
--University of Michigan archaeologist Brendan Nash
--Thomas Talbot, a self-taught researcher, who found the first Clovis spear point in 2008, in the fields of a farm in southwest Michigan.
R4A announcement
BIG NEWS: Planet Detroit is proud to announce we will join @Report4America as a host newsroom in 2024! We’re teaming up with the national service program to fill critical news gaps in our community with talented and trustworthy journalists.
Learn more about @Report4America, an initiative of @GroundTruthProject: www.reportforamerica.org
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