The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

Saturday, April 03, 2004

The Great Lakes Directory (http://www.GreatLakesDirectory.org) is a comprehensive online resource highlighting environmental issues around the Great Lakes basin. The Directory contains daily environmental articles, a network of over 1,000 environmental groups, funding resources, free environmental software, nonprofit management resources, and a massive library of online Great Lakes environmental information.

Here are your weekly Great Lakes environmental jobs, events and news headlines from the Great Lakes Directoy. More headlines, action alerts, resources, grants, jobs, and free activist software at http://www.GreatLakesDirectory.org

From Jenny Tahtinen of the Environmental Association of Great Lakes Education (EAGLE).
http://www.Eagle-EcoSource.org

Check out the Great Lakes Directory's Issue Pages for information on your environmental concerns!
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org

Quote of the week: "Life ought to excite our passion, not our indifference. Life in jeopardy ought to cause us to take a stand." David Orr

THIS WEEK'S GREAT LAKES HEADLINES:

03/31 - Wisconsin Energy's lake water plan makes waves
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/wi/033104_great_lakes.htm

03/31 - Indiana's water pollution woes are crystal clear
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/in/033104_great_lakes.htm

03/31 - Liberals eye wind farms in Ontario
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/on/033104_great_lakes.htm

03/30 - More water shortages forecast for communities across Canada
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/on/033004_great_lakes.htm

03/30 - Clean machines can stop the alien invasion
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/mi/033004_great_lakes.htm

03/29 - Shorebirds can be seen around Indiana
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/in/032904_great_lakes.htm

03/29 - Industries blend with ecology under new plan
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/oh/032904_great_lakes.htm

03/29 - Door County gears up for a summer of testing
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/wi/032904_great_lakes.htm

03/26 - MI Wetland Action Coalition Newsletter
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/mi/032604__great_lakes.htm

03/26 - Critics: Proposed ship ballast limits won't halt invasive species
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/mi/032604_great_lakes.htm

03/26 - Standards on fish provide protection
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/oh/032604_great_lakes.htm

03/26 - Great Lakes advocates push for stricter water ballast rules
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/mn/032604_great_lakes.htm

For more information, go to http://www.GreatLakesDirectory.org

GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL JOBS:
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/jobs.htm

GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS:
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/events.htm
To subscribe and receive Great Lakes environmental news, action alerts, jobs and events in your email once a week: http://www.GreatLakesDirectory.org

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Jenny Tahtinen-
Great Lakes Directory / EAGLE
394 Lake Avenue South, Suite #222
Duluth, MN 55802
Phone:(218)726-1828
fax:(240)526-2670
Jenny@EAGLE-EcoSource.org

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The AWEA's annual expo:
Global WINDPOWER 2004
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 28-31, 2004

I was there...
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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."