Fri 6/21 @ noon
As the entire region celebrates the 50th anniversary of the last Cuyahoga River fire — an event that helped launch the environmental movement and the passage of the Clean Water Act — maybe you’d like to know where things stand NOW.
Join the City Club of Cleveland in the Grand Ballroom of the Huntington Convention Center for its free public “State of the Great Lakes” forum. Learn what has — and hasn’t — been accomplished in the last 50 years as far as making progress in cleaning up the river and its destination, Lake Erie.
While much has been done to clean up the water, land and air around the river, due to climate change and global warming, as well as increased social and economic inequality, there are new threats to the Great Lakes region, which holds 21% of the world’s freshwater and is warming faster than any place in the U.S.
Regional and national leaders will talk about the threats facing the Great Lakes and what actions we can take to head them off. They include former New Jersey governor and former head of the EPA Christine Todd Whitman, Ohio state director of the Trust for Public Land Shanelle Lee Smith, and Oberlin professor of environmental studies and politics David W. Orr, PhD. City Club CEO Dan Moulthrop moderates.
Cleveland, OH 44114