This week, we’re featuring another guest spot from Great Art for Great Lakes. GAGL sat down with Manitoulin Artist, Julieanne Steedman to discuss her completed Great Art for Great Lakes piece, Stories of the Lake, her experience creating community-engagement artwork, and what she’s working on these days. GAGL: Who is Julieanne Steedman? Tell us a…
We are thrilled to introduce our guest blog contribution—GAGL Artist Interview Series—featuring the eight incredible artists, and artist collectives, selected for the Great Art for Great Lakes (GAGL) project. In each community, the artists have completed their community maker events where they engaged the public to participate in the co-creation of their proposed artwork. Now,…
It’s not an abstract question. The answers, in fact, could have wide-reaching consequences for if and how governments and industries respond to our warming world and the adaptation and mitigation efforts they choose to undertake. Research published in Nature Climate Change in 2012 found that policies directly tackling climate change are more welcome by the…
Not ready for summer to end? The inescapable reality we all face leading into the final week before Labour Day hits and we hang up our caftans until Spring’s next arrival. But seriously, don’t fret. We live in the Great Lakes basin with endless geography to uncover across this gorgeous landscape that so…
When you think of a getaway, what landscapes come to mind? Are they remote or close to home? This year, I have challenged myself to apply wanderlust to my own backyard. By train across Canada or car across Ontario, I have set on a mission to explore our nature, people, and culture. With…
Waterlution’s Executive Director and Co-Founder, Karen Kun, shares her Top 5 Lessons from Water Innovation Labs (WILs). MIXING Combining unknown ingredients can create something unprecedented. Bringing in participants and resource guests* with the “less obvious” water connection takes a lot of time, energy and personal attention yet it is worth it! Innovation comes from people asking…
So what can these tools look like? In my first blog, Art as a Tool for Social Engagement and Energizing Communities Towards a Sustainable, Collaborative Future, I touched on my belief in the strength of these tools. Here, I’m addressing in brief, truly what these tools can look like. In the Spring, during our Great…
Wetlands have received a lot of favourable press lately. In the past year, the Ontario government released a draft strategy for managing and growing our estimated 30 million hectares of wetlands from Lake Erie to Hudson Bay, a report that was finalized this month. Meanwhile, recent research from the University of Waterloo’s Intact Centre on…
I met my husband while filming a short-lived Discovery Channel ID show called “Paranormal Home Inspectors.” I was Research. Filmed in Ontario, people were encouraged to call in with their paranormal experiences. If the tale was enough to make your skin crawl, we’d go to your spot and provide a “ghost inspection.” The show…
I’ve known Maricor for more than 10 years. We were in the same class in environmental engineering and both stayed in the Waterloo area after graduation. She has completed a master’s degree and is nearing the finishing line for her PhD, where she’s specializing in drinking water treatment technologies for emerging contaminants. I’ve been working…