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  • Bob Miller
    commented 2025-12-03 16:07:22 -0500
    Your “verification” process SUCKS!
  • Vera Krussman
    commented 2025-11-12 11:59:04 -0500
    Hi! My friends and I are starting a Global warming podcast “Together For Tomorrow” and we were wondering if collaborate with you. We are in sixth grade . Please get back to us soon! Thanks

    - Together for Tomorrow team
  • Kevin Kamps
    commented 2025-09-21 13:35:51 -0400
    Zombies Against Palisades! (ZAP!) Halloween Rally, Kal., MI — see the flier; attend if you can, and bring friends; please spread the word!


    Restart the Closed Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor?


    Now That’s SCARY!


    What’d Somebody EAT YOUR BRAIN?!



    See the front side of the flier, here.


    See the back side of the flier, here.



    The Devilish Details:



    Halloween, Friday, October 31, 2025



    Noon-1:30pm & 4:30-6pm (both Eastern Time)


    Sidewalk out front of U.S. Representative Huizenga’s Office



    Trestlebridge Office Ctr., 5228 Lovers Lane, Portage, MI 49002 (across from Loy Norrix High School, south of the Kilgore & Lovers Lane intersection; park at Trestlebridge)


    Dress Up as an Anti-Nuke Zombie (Diabolical Beastie, or other Crazy Critter)



    Protest Congressman Huizenga & Holtec International’s Scheme for a Multi-Billion Dollar Taxpayer- & Ratepayer-Bailout, to Soon Restart this Nuclear-Lemon-from-the-Get-Go, Perpetually Problem Plagued, & Now Dangerously Age-Degraded Undead Radioactive Monster on Lake Michigan’s Beach!



    An anti-nuclear info. table will be set up at the event


    For more info., contact: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear and Don’t Waste Michigan (Kalamazoo Chapter), (240) 462-3216, [email protected], and see:
  • Theo Scheer
    commented 2025-09-11 17:00:33 -0400
    Hello! I’m a reporter working on a story for the Great Lakes Echo about online harassment of environmental defenders. I’m trying to localize this recent report to the Great Lakes Region. I’m curious whether you or your colleagues have received any online harassment for your advocacy, and if so, what you did about it.


    Theo Scheer

    (616) 729-5081
  • Rochelle Martinez
    commented 2025-08-18 19:44:44 -0400
    I was at the Petoskey Forum tonight for your excellent presentation. I did a quick search here and could not find the video you showed on tonight. Could you send me the link please as I would like to share that video information with many. Thank you
  • Jordan Larson
    commented 2025-08-06 08:33:13 -0400
    Greetings!


    My name is Jordan Larson and I work with Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations. I wanted to reach out to let you know that that the tabling application is open for the 2025 A2ZERO Green Fair, Ann Arbor’s annual street fair celebrating sustainability, community, and climate action! I think your organization would be a great addition to this event, so I wanted to invite you to apply if you’re interested. Basic event details and the application link are below!


    Event Information:

    Date: Friday, September 19th

    Time: 5:00-8:00pm (exhibitor setup begins at 4:00pm)

    Location: Main Street, Huron to William

    Application link: https://forms.office.com/g/HNJt5ApZgp

    Website: https://www.a2gov.org/sustainability-innovations-home/newsletter-events/a2zero-green-fair/


    Thank you, and let me know if you have any questions about this event!

    Best,
  • Benjamin Freeman
    commented 2025-07-29 23:50:17 -0400
    I would like to make an inquiry.
  • Stephen Merring
    commented 2025-07-17 13:46:00 -0400
    You need a better Billboard! It does not convey a clear message. Canada? Oil ? black lines what does it mean? I am an educator and your Billboard only reaches people who know the issue. You need to reach out to the people who do not know the issue and have no clue what the sign means! I can help with a better Billboard.
  • Paul Erhard
    commented 2025-06-27 15:52:45 -0400
    What is the timeframe for sending messages to Governor Whitmer and Phil Roos? I attended the Groundwork event in TC on June 4 and heard Sean McBrearty’s excellent presentation. Thank you
  • Brad Olivares
    commented 2025-06-11 02:26:32 -0400
    Wikipedia is considered to be the World’s most significant tool for reference material. The Wiki links show up on the 1st page of Google 97% of the time. With a Page on one of the most revered reference tools, you are sure to get yourself or your business noticed. So if you’re thinking of getting a Wikipedia Page created, it’s the best time of the year.


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  • Carolyn Boiarsky
    commented 2025-05-28 14:16:51 -0400
    “Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental failure,” is concerned with the 1,300 mainly minority residents of a low income housing complex who are evicted when high levels of lead are found under and around their homes. The complex is on the USS Lead Superfund site in East Chicago, Indiana. EPA knew about the problem for over 30 years and did nothing. CDC reported false information concerning blood lead levels. HUD failed to provide residents with appropriate new housing. The book can be ordered from Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, or Purdue University Press.

    The members of your organization may be interested in reading this story. The author, Carolyn Boiarsky, Prof. Emerita from Purdue University is available for presentations.

    Carolyn Boiarsky, Ph.D.

    Prof. Emerita, Purdue University

    [email protected]
  • Bruce Bedford
    commented 2025-04-23 13:07:13 -0400
    On the spill map on the website, the map shows an existing line in the Straits. This is the existing line 5, correct? It also shows a past Leak near Saginaw Bay of 21,000 gal. what happened and when. It also shows part of the pipeline flow diverting to a terminus at Sarnia…How does the oil line deliver that oil across the St Clair River….above ground? Underground?
  • Lynn Kunze
    commented 2025-04-03 15:11:09 -0400
    I have a few reports that Enbridge has started digging the line 5 tunnel already. Is this true?
  • Michael Fields
    commented 2025-01-24 12:38:19 -0500
    How do I RSVP a virtual platform spot for this Monday Hearing on Line 5 happening in Lansing.
  • Mia Breznau
    commented 2025-01-21 13:39:46 -0500
    Hello,


    My name is Mia Breznau, and I am an award-winning youth climate activist from Southwest Michigan. This semester, I am part of a statewide group of youth organizers working with the international Earth Day Network and MI Student Power Alliance to organize coordinated Earth Day actions at Michigan higher education institutions. Under the 2025 Earth Day Theme of Our Planet, Our Power, our group has decided to champion the Line 5 issue and call for a total shutdown of the pipeline through synchronized rallies and demonstrations. We recently hosted Julie from your organization to provide an overview of the issue to our members. We are seeking to expand this effort to as many Michigan campuses as possible to show widespread support for our demands among Michigan youth. If you have any youth members within your organization, we would love to have them & their school join our organizing! We already have representation from Western Michigan University, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Albion College, and Grand Valley State University. Ideally, we would like to expand to campuses other than these, but I would of course be happy to connect anyone at those institutions to a representative from our group! Please let me know if someone comes to mind! I’d be happy to personally reach out with an invitation, or they can email me at this address, [email protected].


    Thank you for your vital work, and I hope to see you at our Earth Day rallies in a few months!


    Thanks,

    Mia Breznau
  • Greg Awtry
    commented 2025-01-17 10:41:50 -0500
    Here’s my latest Line 5 column in the Alpena News.

    Greg Awtry

    https://search.app/qjAYT8jXny4N48QZ8
  • Zigmond Kozicki
    commented 2025-01-15 10:35:06 -0500
    Can Oil and Water Don’t Mix present at the 2025 Great Lakes Environmental Festival March 22, 2025, in Manistee Michigan? We would be pleased to include your message and talk about your effort in our March 22 program. We will be focused on water at this event. March 22 is World Water Day. We hope you accept this invitation and share your message with our participants and guests. This event is open with no monetary cost to the public. Please respond. You can find more about the GLEF effort at www.glef.us
  • John Helge
    commented 2025-01-13 17:56:05 -0500
    The 2025 Great Lakes Environmental Festival (GLEF) will be held on World Water Day Saturday March 22, 2025 from 9am to 6pm at the Manistee High School at 525 12th Street in Manistee, MI. The fourth annual GLEF will be focused on the climate change issues and challenges facing the freshwater resources in the Great Lakes region.


    The 2025 GLEF is expecting to exceed the over 500 visitors that attended our 2024 event. We will again feature an Environmental Expo with regional and national environmental activist organizations staffing information tables/booths. Concurrently we will be hosting subject matter experts making presentations on their environmental-focused work and also serving on panel discussions.
    The 2025 GLEF organizing committee would like to invite your organization to participate in this year’s festival. Please let us know at your earliest convenience how you would like to participate so we can include your organization in our promotion and publicizing of the festival.


    For more information on the Great Lakes Environmental Festival please follow this link to our website: https://www.glef.us/ I remain available to answer questions or provide additional information as needed. Do not hesitate to contact me.
  • Becky Easton
    commented 2024-11-13 08:50:21 -0500
    I would very much like to have a yard sign to post in my front yard. Can you help?
  • Kristin Peters
    commented 2024-10-16 13:29:23 -0400
    The rally to shut down line 5 reservation indicates it is 2 pm at EDT. Is the start time actually 1 pm in Chicago? Please clarify. Thank you!!
  • Dorota Bussey
    commented 2024-09-25 14:14:10 -0400
    I just read Rachel Maddow’s “blow Out”. You may have already considered it, but due to her diligent research and reporting, she would be able to present a thoughtful report on Enbridge and its shady practices. Unfortunately, I don’t have contacts that could be helpful. So, it is just an idea that may be possible.
  • Carolyn McCreary
    commented 2024-09-18 14:29:56 -0400
    If you could briefly repeat what you told us in the Day of Action Zoom Meeting about the Bay Mills Tribal lawyers overseeing Enbridge’s permit process, I would appreciate it. I got that Enbridge has to re-apply for the permit but I am not sure that I remember correctly the reason why. I want to be truthful and accurate when I discuss these matters with others so if you could just post a little blurb about it in your “News” section, that would be great!
  • Lynn Hartung
    commented 2024-08-30 16:47:27 -0400
    I hope you are going to send out a copy of the recorded webinar from Tuesday, August 20th … it was excellent and I would really love to listening to it again.
  • Ciara Garrity
    followed this page 2024-08-25 19:45:58 -0400
  • Sara Sage
    commented 2024-06-30 07:37:20 -0400
  • Patti Perkins
    commented 2024-06-14 12:06:13 -0400
    In this age of technology and especially Green technology please consider adding PayPal to your donation section that’s what I always use it’s simple it’s easy no putting in a credit card number and also why don’t you include a QR code like many organizations are doing too click on the QR code send money I have a few hundred dollars to send you this summer and I’d like to do it easily!….. Quite a few!

    And yes I have my sign in my driveway in Flint Michigan.

    Make it a great day and thank you for volunteering!
  • Cecilia Droz
    commented 2024-06-14 07:57:55 -0400
    Difficult to ACT on REROUTE as stated….I support shutting Line 5 Pipeline and the proposed reroute. Your latest email request makes it difficult to act. I click ACT NOW and there are several options it takes me to. Which am I supposed to click again?! It is confusing and I bet many people will just blow on by. Do I click send to Biden? It says nothing in the email about Biden. Idk what to do and would like to sign the letter to not approve this nonsense by Enbridge to reroute! Please redesign the letter or tell me what I am missing here. Thank you.
  • Carey Schug
    commented 2024-05-22 12:34:02 -0400
    I have looked but unable to find an answer. from general science and the fact that there are counter currents in the Atlantic flowing differently than the surface, I would expect cold water at the bottom of Lake Michigan to flow south, warm, and then flow back north. so a line five (or tunnel) leak could destroy the water supply for all of Chicago. does anybody know?
  • John Huot
    commented 2024-05-01 14:16:40 -0400
  • Lynn Kunze
    commented 2024-04-18 15:59:41 -0400
    This pipeline goes through the lower Thumb region. Would it be possible to bring this movie to a theater somewhere in the Thumb?

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