“This is going to be easy!” was my first thought when I read about the Great Waters Challenge. It’s just writing some blog posts about interesting water stories, I love reading & learning about water, I can do this in no time. Getting into the meat of the challenges, it ended up being so much…
In the end of April we spent a week at a WIL, a Water Innovation Lab. Together with other young water leaders we came up with solutions and ideas for water management. We learned about water management in the Netherlands and chatted and exchanged ideas with water management experts. The overarching theme of the WIL…
For many of us, ‘networking’ can be a fear-inducing word. We’ve all been around a friend or coworker who can strike up a meaningful conversation with just about anyone—strangers at a party, the person in the seat next to them at a sports game, or on the train—how do they do it so well and…
And here I thought Toronto struggled to connect with its Great Lake.
Cleveland, almost a sister city to Canada’s largest metropolis, has made accessing its Lake Erie waterfront laughably difficult. If the eight-lane I-90 highway and Cleveland Memorial Shoreway don’t make you think twice about walking the water’s edge
A recent report in the U.S. shows that on any given day, teens spend nine hours a day online using media for their enjoyment. Teens are not the only age group spending their days (and even nights) online. I have been following this growing trend in recent years
Spring is finally here and what better way to celebrate than with our iconic Great Lakes? Here are 10 fun, cultural & active happenings in the Great Lakes Basin to add to your spring 2017 agenda! Copyright Steve Bruno Photography 1. Can You Paddle & Say Sesquicentennial 10 Times Fast? Gear up for 2017’s…
As a practicing socially engaged artist, I have directly experienced the impact my work has had on a community and the individuals that live there. Our Great Art for Great Lakes (GAGL) initiative gives artists across Ontario the opportunity to directly connect with the public and create a lasting impact within their respective communities to…
Hello and welcome to the Waterlution blog! We are thrilled to share our stories with you right here every week. We’re pleased that members of our team will be sharing tales from the field wherever that takes us—Canada, the Great Lakes basin and across the globe. If you’ve already started to navigate our brand new…