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By Emilio Perez Ibarguen

In 2023, community organizers from the outdoor Discovery Center, an outdoor education and conservation-focused nonprofit in Holland, Michigan looked for ways to further sustainability efforts in the west Michigan community. This led to a partnership with another local nonprofit to create the Carbon Community Fund, which accepts donations from residents to fund local conservation efforts.

The post Small city’s ‘community carbon fund’ promises hyper-local carbon reduction first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

Off-road vehicles have been allowed on state forest land since 2018. But sometimes they blaze their own trails. Now, things are at a breaking point.

In the early 1800s, a group of politicians decided part of the Ohio border should move farther north. It started a decades-long border fight between Michigan and Ohio. There were winners. There were losers. And in the end, it shaped the states as we know them.

The industry is already teetering on the edge of a labor shortage for entry level officers. Will there be enough cadets? We go out on the water at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City.

With the news still raw that alcohol giant Diageo is closing its Amherstburg bottling plant and moving those operations to the U.S., the union representing workers there vowed Thursday to fight to save the facility. Closing the Amherstburg plant, so Diageo can bottle some Canadian-made Crown Royal whisky in the U.S., will kill 160 local […]

A crumbling, century-old dam in AuTrain Township could threaten local businesses and public safety, with some worried about a dam failure or its possible removal. What does that mean for dams elsewhere in the state.

By Maya Moore 
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say.   Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.

The post Trump’s budget would devastate sea lamprey control in Great Lakes first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

The state's tourism campaign offers a fragrance for the summer with notes of the beach, wineries and lavender. They struck a chord with some people relaxing by the water.

The University of Windsor says it does not conduct canine experiments.

A Free Press reader wonders how our medical officer of health feels about backyard fires and if there's public health data to support a ban.

But Michigan's lack of statewide septic regulations makes dealing with it a little more complicated. Efforts in Lansing to establish a septic code have fallen short, but there are bills currently in legislative committees that would deal with the issue. The state currently relies on county and local governments to create and enforce their own regulations.

Cases in Benzie County, the Upper Peninsula and elsewhere demonstrate that small communities are not immune from big theft, and that the betrayal is deeply felt.