Right Now, Lake Erie Needs You! Share Your photos, videos, and stories with #WeAreLakeErie on social media
Join Freshwater Future, partners, and advocates and share your love for Lake Erie with photos, videos, and stories on social media using the hashtag #WeAreLakeErie. Help Protect What You Love!
Virtual Blue Community Conversations
Lake Erie – August 11th, 12-1 pm ET
Please join us for this informal and open discussion on the current challenges and issues facing water organizations, communities, and advocates. It’s also a chance to share approaches that are working and other ideas. Everyone is welcome, but pre-registration is required. Register here!
We plan to host similar events for each lake, so stay tuned for upcoming dates.
Mindfulness August 14th
Join us for our monthly Mindfulness & Meditation Webinar and discover proven methods to reduce stress and re-energize your efforts in water work and beyond. Led by Jonathan Relucio, a mindfulness expert with 20+ years of experience, these 45-minute sessions offer tools to recharge, refocus, and reduce stress. This FREE event is open to everyone—community leaders, family, friends, co-workers, and volunteers. Register today!
Get Ready for Walk, Paddle, and Roll!
On August 15th, Freshwater Future will kick off our annual Walk, Paddle, and Roll Fundraiser! There are three ways to participate – donate, participate and raise money as an individual, or form your own campaign to raise funds for your organization! Contact Leslie@freshwaterfuture.org for more information.
Take Actions: Together, Our Voices Make a Difference
Support Improved Equity in the Michigan Water Fund – Public Comment Session Monday August 11 at 1pm ET
The Michigan State Revolving Fund program provides loans and grants to help communities keep water safe, clean, and affordable. To ensure these dollars reach the communities most in need, improved definitions of overburdened communities are needed that focus on measures of poverty rather than household income or property values. Every three years, the public can urge the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to make improvements, and the comment period is now open! Provide verbal comments at the August 11th listening session (register) or submit a written one with our quick form by August 29th!
New! Speak Out Against Another Proposed Taxpayer Handout to the Copperwood Mine
Recently, Freshwater Future asked you to send Michigan lawmakers a message to deny taxpayer funds to the foreign mining company (your support is still needed!). Now we are asking you to send messages opposing a similar grant at the federal level. The company is looking for start-up costs at both the state and federal levels to open a copper mine immediately next to one of the most cherished parks in the nation, Porcupine Mountains State Park. Congress will soon make funding decisions – Please use your voice today to protect nearby Lake Superior and the State Park from air, noise, light, and toxic pollution.
Job Opportunities
Freshwater Future shares partners and other organizations’ job opportunities. Check out current openings here. Email info@freshwaterfuture.org to add your organization’s open position!
