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RIGHTS OF THE LAKES

This Is
Our Water.
This Is Our Fight.

Twenty-one percent of the world's fresh surface water sits in the Great Lakes Basin. Forty million people drink from it. Hundreds of species depend on it. The legal system that was supposed to protect it was written to protect the corporations threatening it instead. We are building the movement to change that.

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PULSE on Politics

The Right Not To Be Poisoned

The Great Lakes and State Waters Bill of Rights for the state of New York What does it mean to...

One Year and One Day: The Lake Erie Bill of Rights

On February 26, 2019, the people of Toledo, Ohio did something that had never been done before in the...

Who Defends the Great Lakes?

What Are Legal Rights of Nature? Explained for Humans. Who Defends the Great Lakes? What if they could talk? What...

love where you live!™

Friends of the Lakes Club. Once a month, the Basin shows up at your door. A letter that tells a story of this place. A postcard to send to someone who needs to feel it too. A Basin-themed sticker. An original 4x6 artwork from a Great Lakes Basin artist. A surprise tucked inside just because. And somewhere in the pile—a Blue Blanding Turtle. Not everyone gets one. But someone does. This is connection. This is community. And it's desinged to defend this place we call home.

Adventure

Beaver Island: Where the Night Still Lives!

There are only a handful of places left in the world where the night still knows how to be dark. I went to one. My...

Stay & Spend Local

Beaver Island’s St. James Campground

Close to the Water. Close to the Sky I came...

Beaver Island Retreat

More than just a canvas tent in the woods....

Journals Unlimited

Spend Local Great Lakes™ supports small businesses throughout the...

Fat Matt’s BBQ

Spend Local Great Lakes™ supports small businesses throughout the...

Small House Farm

Spend Local Great Lakes™ supports Great Lakes small businesses...
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The Birth and Beat of Voortex Jazz and Blues Band

One of the most compelling things about jazz and blues when “done right” is the role of serendipity. While...

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