Great Lakes Forum

A listserv I participate in recently brought news of the launch of a new forum dedicated to Great Lakes issues: the Great Lakes Town Hall. Each issue will feature an article about some regional environmental issue, as well as a guest column on aspects of Great Lakes history, culture, recreation,etc. There are discussion forums and resources for grassroots activism. Submissions of writing and photographs are welcome.

The town hall aims to be a comprehensive resource for those who live near and care about the lakes. As its purpose statement says,

Residents of the Great Lakes are divided by great physical and political distances...The Great Lakes Town Hall is designed to bridge those distances. Like the town meetings on which it is modeled, the Great Lakes Town Hall provides a "space" where residents from all across the Great Lakes basin - and all walks of life within the basin - can come together to identify common concerns, set the political agenda, share and develop collective solutions, and demand - as a public - that the Lakes are clean, abundant, and natural for generations to come.

Give it a look-see.

Great Lakes; Conservation