Category: Environment News

Environment News feature stories and posts dealing with environmental concerns of the Great Lakes, Michigan and Upper Thumb region. This included Water Quality and Pollution in the upper Great Lakes.

Check our environmental news posts from those highlighted below.

Local Brewing is Sustainable and Tasty

Posted on August 28, 2017November 25, 2021 by Michael Hardy

The scenario for globalized worlds need to become local. The reason I pose the need for localization aligning with the effect on beer, because what would the world be without beer.

Asian Carp – It’s Time to Consider a $20 Bounty

Posted on May 19, 2017November 26, 2021 by Michael Hardy

ThumbWind.com advocates placing a $10-20 bounty on each and every Asian Carp caught in the Great Lakes Region.

Great Lakes Pollution – Saginaw Bay Muck is Poop (#2)

Posted on May 16, 2017May 12, 2022 by Michael Hardy

2017 marks 30 years since Michigan’s Saginaw Bay was deemed an Area of Concern. Outdated and failing septic tanks, overflow from Bay City and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations CAFOs. Experts confirmed local suspicions of what exactly is in the muck that has been appearing on beaches.

Nestle Takes Millions of Gallons of Michigan’s Water for $200

Posted on February 25, 2017November 27, 2021 by Michael Hardy

Nestle’s operations in Michigan allow the Swiss company to pump and sell millions of gallons of fresh water from aquafers for only $200 a year.

Water from Thin Air

Posted on September 25, 2016November 27, 2021 by Michael Hardy

When Ford Motor’s Doug Martin read about a billboard in Lima, Peru, that turned humidity into drinking water for the

6 Lies and Half – Truths about Great Lakes Water Use

Posted on July 18, 2016January 20, 2023 by Michael Hardy

Recently the blogosphere and news sites have been bristling that Barack Obama somehow has just now starting to allow water from Great Lakes region to be pumped and sold to China. What’s worse is that none of these blog authors are checking the facts. Their lazy practice is to re-blog someone else’s post.

Nestle Bottling Plant in Michigan to Aid in Flint Water Crisis

Posted on January 9, 2016November 22, 2021 by Michael Hardy

In 2016 thre were calls to then Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, to ask Nestle for assistance in bringing bottled water to Flint Michigan.

Flint’s poor and black residents do not have access to safe drinking water due to lead contamination.