Our mission is to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource using policy, education and local efforts, ensuring a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for generations of people and wildlife.
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Adopt-a-Beach™: More than 7,000 volunteers in five Great Lakes states participate in the Alliance for the Great Lakes' Adopt-a-Beach™ program. Last year they:
* Checked water quality and investigated beach health at 200+ beach sites.
* Removed 426,811 pieces of litter and debris from Great Lakes shorelines.
* Collected data that was compiled into a regional database for use in pollution prevention and education.
* Launched their own Great Lakes projects including letter-writing and litter reduction campaigns.
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Alliance for the Great Lakes "Michigan Attorney General takes Asian carp suit to Supreme Court," 12-21-09, Detroit Free Press
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The state of Michigan is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to net the problem of Asian carp before the fish make their way into Lake Michigan and the rest of the Great Lakes.
Alliance for the Great Lakes "EPA, Army Corps Urged to Consider Separating Great Lakes, River Basin," 12-18-09, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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The once-radical idea of somehow plugging the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop the flow of unwanted species from spilling between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin is quickly picking up political support.
Alliance for the Great Lakes Reminder: Follow the Twitter interview about Adopt-a-Beach™ today at 11:00 a.m. CST. Sustain Our Great Lakes will interview the Alliance's Jamie Cross about the September Adopt-a-Beach™ event. Follow #SOGL_Asks for the full discussion.
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Time Is Running Short to Support the Great Lakes through a Year-end Gift
This holiday season, make a lasting impact on the protection of the Great Lakes by becoming an Alliance member, purchasing a gift membership for a loved one, renewing your membership or simply making a donation online. It’s easy, fast and secure. T...o learn more about membership and ways you can make your contribution, visit http://www.greatlakes.org/membership.
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Adopt-a-Beach™ Interview Tomorrow on Twitter
Sustain Our Great Lakes will host a live Twitter interview about September Adopt-a-Beach™ starting Friday 12/18 at 11:00 a.m. CST. Follow the “twitterview” by searching the hashtag #SOGL_Asks. Follow the Alliance on Twitter at www.twitter.com/A4GL.
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Doing all we can to conserve and restore the Great Lakes, the world's largest surface freshwater resource.
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Brammeier Named to Alliance’s Top Post
Joel Brammeier has been named president and chief executive officer of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, North America’s oldest independent Great Lakes citizens’ organization.
Brammeier, who has served as acting president of the organization since July 1, was named to the post by the 27-member board of directors.
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Alliance for the Great Lakes The Alliance is seeking summer interns for work in the Chicago and Grand Haven offices. Opportunities include Pharmaceutical Project, Chicago Water Quality, Education, Adopt-a-Beach™ Illinois-Indiana, Adopt-a-Beach™ Michigan, and General Internship. For more information, including how to apply, go to www.greatlakes.org/internships.
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Ronda O'Bryant If we can't protect the Great Lakes...we might as well give up on the rest of the country and the world! This is pathetic! We have to stop letting these big money corporations and dirty politicians allow our lakes to be contaminated and ruined! Time to get mad people!!!
Pete Jorgensen is greeting you from Silver Beach in Berrien County, MI. The 1st DNR Grant funded acquisition of open space in Michigan in 1990.
Alliance for the Great Lakes Boaters, fishermen, Great Lakes fans: How will it affect you if Asian carp get into the Great Lakes? Have you encountered Asian carp in other water bodies? Let us know! Your stories will help us show decision-makers why it’s so important to act now.
Alliance for the Great Lakes Urgent Action Alert: Urge your members of Congress to permanently break the connection between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins to keep Asian carp and other invaders out of the Great Lakes.
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David McGowan
Ravenswood Media's program for The Nature Conservancy, To Build A Better Ditch, demonstates how a 2 ditch can reduce nutrient overloads and erosion in ag fields. The new design can have a significant impact on hypoxic conditions in the Great Lakes.
See the vid here http://www.vimeo.com/7901535
Frances Canonizado
Michigan Sues Illinois Over Asian Carp
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Michigan's attorney general says his office will file a federal lawsuit to force the closure of Chicago-area locks, in a bid to prevent the dreaded Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan and ruining its ecosystem.
Dan Shreffler
Okay, thinking out loud, here. I'm not a biologist but I wonder if there isn't some way to genetically alter some Asian carp to make them carry a sterility gene or just a mutation that makes them succeptable to a common virus or bacteria in North America waters and then introduce this GMO fish into the invading populat...ion so that it will, in time, degrade the population through it's breeding with the healthy fish.
Perhaps this is pie-in-the-sky thinking, but I still wonder.
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Single Asian Carp Found in Canal as Cleanup Continues
Officials announced the discovery of a bighead carp – one of two species of Asian carp now threatening the Great Lakes – in an area of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal treated with a fish-killing poison in a major effort to keep the invasive carp out of the Great Lakes.
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