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President Bush added the final signatory touch to the long awaited Great Lakes Compact on Friday. Now it is up to the Great Lakes states to begin implementing the legislation. “Together, we have taken a major step to protect the Great Lakes. I am hopeful that this historic cooperation will enable us to accelerate our […]
CHICAGO — The bottled water loophole in the Great Lakes Compact — an opening that initially worried lawyers, conservationists and concerned citizens — is inspiring corporations like Nestle to respond. “How do you define a product?” Nestle spokesperson Brian Flaherty asked the Washington Post. “Water goes into beer in Wisconsin and radiators in Detroit. Why […]
Representatives remain worried about exemptions Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue As of Tuesday, grandiose visions of Lake Michigan pipelines pumping water to parched Arizona began withering in the wake of the congressionally approved Great Lakes Compact. With the Compact ratified, the Great Lakes Basin is one executive signature away from legislation that would prohibit outside […]
By Allison Battey ProPublica New York City officials seeking a moratorium on natural gas drilling in the city’s watershed have found an ally in the state legislature. Assemblyman James Brennan, who represents part of Brooklyn, announced Thursday that he will introduce a bill in next year’s session that would permanently prohibit drilling in the city’s […]
by C.T. Pope Circle of Blue UPDATE: Since the original posting of this article, John McCain also responded to the science policy questionnaire. As the presidential race ratchets into high gear this fall, science and energy policies are edging into the debates of both parties. Barack Obama became the first presidential hopeful to answer a 14-question […]
Described as water’s Inconvenient Truth, recently released documentary For the Love of Water (FLOW) takes important steps toward provoking public discussion around the crisis threatening one of humanity’s most critical resources. “The film questions the very nature of water and our relation to it,” says director Irena Salina. “It shows how local action can challenge […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – A funky dystopian comedy, Idiocracy heralds water as the common-sense solution to crop failure in a highly-privatized futuristic world. The film presents what the L.A. Times calls a “brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy” that culls “heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – In Werner Herzog’s filmic journey to Antarctica, he engages a geographically marginalized society of marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers to understand the nuanced drama of their lives atop, within, and beneath the South Pole’s vast freshwater freeze. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls Encounters at the End of the World “a […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – This year’s Traverse City Film Festival will show the lighter side of the water crisis with the film Absurdistan. The comedy, set in a fictional village of the former Eastern bloc, explores what happens when virile village men decide a broken pipeline can wait and women boycott in protest. A classic […]
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica On May 29 New York state’s top environmental officials assured state lawmakers that plans to drill for natural gas near the watershed that supplies New York City’s drinking water posed little danger. A survey of other states had found “not one instance of drinking water contamination” from the water-intensive, horizontal drilling […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – In time for the Beijing Olympics, Up the Yangtze documents a journey into the heart of the Chinese Dream. With her family on the verge of becoming environmental refugees, Yu Shui departs to work for the opportunistic tourism company, Farewell Cruises, on the quickly changing Yangtze River. A strikingly personal vignette […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – Trouble the Water, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2008, documents the front lines of climate change in a cooperative production that takes viewers from the imminence to the aftermath of New Orlean’s Hurricane Katrina. An amalgamation of one couple’s heroic home-video footage with the filmmaking of […]
