Alliance for the Great Lakes Alliance for the Great Lakes The Alliance for the Great Lakes is the largest and oldest citizens' environmental organization dedicated to the protection of the Great Lakes. With more than 20 staff and six offices, its mission is to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource using policy, education and local efforts, ensuring a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for generations of people and wildlife. Throughout its history, the integration of public engagement and sound policy have been the cornerstone to its approach to Great Lakes restoration and protection. The proliferation of nuclear power plants around Lake Michigan
The Great Lakes Suites meditation on the "restrained, yet explosive" formation of North America's five Great Lakes isn't as grand in scope as 2013's "Occupy the World" (with a 22-piece orchestra) or 2012's four-disc, 19-part Civil Rights miniseries "Ten Freedom Summers" — but the 90-minute bustle of his stripped-down all-star quartet still stands as 2014's jazz epic." Disc 1 Disk 2 The Great Lakes Suites The Great Lakes Suites is a two-disc studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released on September 16, 2014 via Finnish TUM Records label. The album includes six original jazz compositions written by Smith,