Municipalities throughout Michigan are focusing on street lighting to save money and reduce energy consumption.

Some communities may overhaul street light systems to more energy-efficient ones. Others may reduce the time the lamps are lit.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently inducted its first brewery into the statewide Green Tier program for sustainable businesses.

Many Great Lakes craft breweries advocate sustainability through smart water use.

A group of Great Lakes surfers is teaching swimmers to protect themselves from rip currents, the primary reason for 74 Great Lakes drownings in 2010.

Fewer lifeguards means a greater need for such training.

U.S. Army officials propose building a public water supply as an alternative to using private wells threatened by contamination from an old weapons complex near Madison.

Producers of an award-winning video about Flint, karate and urban agriculture are working on an hour-long version.
It will include additional footage – some shot by urban farmers themselves – to create an organically grown storyline about growing food in the city.

Water flooding has been around for decades, but now it is becoming more economically viable as energy prices rise.

A new report says energy extraction is pressuring the nation’s water supply.

But there is little information on how much water is being traded to produce oil.

Shoreline property owners in Ontario have privileges right down to the lakes.
Whether you can walk along a Great Lakes beach depends – sometimes to be legal you have to get your feet wet.

Is Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s legacy that of the greenest city in America?

Or just the illusion of it?

Let’s allow some time to pass before buying into the press release fodder.

A $3 million federal cut from sea lamprey control in 2012 could cause many of Michigan’s charter boat captains to go out of business.
With video of lamprey sterilization.

Ohio lawmakers are proposing more generous water withdrawal limits than other Great Lakes states.

It’s an approach that critics say is possibly more dangerous to the health of the watershed.