The 10th Conference was held September 9-11, 2014, in the city where HOW was born: Grand Rapids, Michigan. In May 2004, the late Peter M. Wege turned his dream for saving the five Great Lakes into action when he invited seventy-plus national experts in environmental policy, science, and economics to … More HOW Conference Comes Home Ten Years Later »
What begins as a fun day of golf at Blythefield Country Club ends up producing stellar young men like new Aquinas graduate Brendan Molony. Brendan represents the many outstanding Aquinas scholarship students who get vital financial help from the donors who play in the annual Peter … More Greens to Green: Golfing for Sustainability »
Tom Kiernan, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, refers to the free potential of wind-energy as “the magic of wind” because it can “power a cleaner, stronger, America.” As this year’s presenter for the 18th annual Wege Foundation Speaker Series, Kiernan happily announced that wind-powered … More 18th Annual Wege Speaker Series – THE MAGIC OF WIND »
Ever since Leonardo da Vinci drew a flying machine patterned after birds’ wings, humans have looked to nature for good ideas. And why not, as biologist Janine Benyus says, since Mother Nature has been perfecting her designs for 3.8 billion years while we humans have barely arrived on the planet. … More Beetles to Bees to Bacteria Fighters: Nature’s Teachers »
APRIL 27 4 p.m. or April 28 11:30 p.m. on PBS Those are the debut times for a new documentary about the good work going to restore and protect the Great Lakes. Titled “Growing Up Green,” the 28-minute PBS show takes viewers on a journey into schools … More GREAT LAKES PEOPLE: MARK YOUR TV CALENDARS! »
The March 18, 2008, New York Times titled a major news article in the business section, “Corporate Sponsorship for a Wind Farm.” The corporation covered in this national and international news story is Steelcase Inc., the company Peter Martin Wege founded in 1912 as Metal Office Furniture. But the story … More Steelcase Honors Wege For All the Right Reasons »
Consider what these things have in common. A vegetable garden in every living room; potato-made plastic bags; a hands-on cradle-to-cradle learning center in the now vacant Grand Rapids Public Museum. If you said whiz-kids’ solutions for creating a circular economy, a gold star for you. Another star if you know … More Students Tackle a ‘Wicked Problem’ for $30,000 »
The huge, ugly, leaping Asian Carp now threaten the $23 billion fishing-boating economy of the Great Lakes. Five years after Congress ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to find the best and fastest way to stop the invasive fish, the Corps could not come up with a solution. Instead … More Clock Ticking on Keeping Asian Carp Out of The Great Lakes »
Five years ago the Grand Rapids Public Schools and Peter M. Wege joined forces to create a sixth-grade program focused on environmental education at City High Middle. That was how the Center For Economicology – named for Peter Wege’s philosophy and books – came to be. Wege coined the … More Parent Magazine: One of the “Coolest Schools in America” »
