The Cities Initiative continues to work with the National Wildlife Federation on its "Mayors' Monarch Pledge" program, which provides municipalities with resources to create vital monarch butterfly habitat in their communities. So far, the municipalities of Evanston, IL;  Leamington, ON; Lambton County, ON;  Pickering, ON;  Sheboygan, WI;  Duluth, MN; and  Township of Carling, ON have signed up! If your municipality would like to sign on or would like more information, visit http://www.nwf.org/Garden-For-Wildlife/About/National-Initiatives/Mayors-Monarch-Pledge.aspx or contact Laura Bretheim at laura.bretheim@glslcities.org. 

Financing Large-Scale Green Infrastructure

ECT, Storm Stream Solutions, Greenleaf Advisors, and Corvias Solutions, with funding support from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, have developed an informative fact sheet on the use of public and private capital to pay for large scale green infrastructure.  The fact sheet, geared to a municipal audience, explores a number of financing and project delivery tools, and maintenance frameworks, such as Community-Based Public-Private Partnerships, Environmental Impact Bonds, stormwater credit trading and stormwater bank frameworks.  To read the fact sheet, please click here.

GLSLCI Partners with CurrentCast 

The Cities Initiative is excited to partner with CurrentCast, 

a daily 1-minute podcast  featuring water resource news from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence and other regions. Check out some of their most recent episodes, including a feature on the Cities Initiative, here.

• Thunder Bay: The only National Marine Sanctuary found in the Great Lakes, Thunder Bay offers plenty of sights to see! http://traffic.libsyn.com/currentcast/CC160722.mp3
• How the Great Lakes Formed: Get the full history of the Great Lakes:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/currentcast/CC160715.mp3