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Nationwide Drinking Water Quality Violations
See the intersection between health-based violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act and racial, ethnic, and language vulnerability across the United States. Image: Ensia/NRDC
Chicago’s Green Alley Handbook
With approximately 1,900 miles of public alleys, Chicago has one of the most extensive and important pieces of infrastructure of any city in the world. That’s approximately 3,500 acres of paved impermeable surface that provides an opportunity to better manage resources and improve the…
Types of Green Infrastructure
“Green infrastructure is a cost-effective, resilient approach to managing wet weather impacts that provides many community benefits.” EPA.gov Image: Berwyn, IL “Tree City USA“
Great Lakes Daily News
Great Lakes Daily News is a collection of news articles of interest to the Great Lakes community from media outlets in the United States and Canada.
Openlands Lakeshore Preserve
In 2014, I spent six months volunteering with the development team at Openlands, a land conservation nonprofit. It was a fantastic experience; Kaye and Sasha showed me how to run a mail campaign with volunteers, how to use DonorPerfect software, and how to plan…
