Climate change is a threat to freshwater. Chicagoans are working on solutions.
Water scarcity and what the UN calls “water-related hazards,” like flooding and drought, are increasing around the globe.
The Great Lakes represents nearly a fifth of the world’s freshwater supply. As climate change exacerbates water scarcity we need to protect this resource. Multiple players are coming together to do this under the banner of the blue economy in Chicago.
Reset learns more about these efforts.
GUESTS: Alaina Harkness, executive director, Current
Christian Guerrero, CEO and co-founder, Tikal Industries
Karen Weigert, Reset sustainability contributor, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise
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Climate change is a threat to freshwater. Chicagoans are working on solutions.
Water scarcity and what the UN calls “water-related hazards,” like flooding and drought, are increasing around the globe.
The Great Lakes represents nearly a fifth of the world’s freshwater supply. As climate change exacerbates water scarcity we need to protect this resource. Multiple players are coming together to do this under the banner of the blue economy in Chicago.
Reset learns more about these efforts.
GUESTS: Alaina Harkness, executive director, Current
Christian Guerrero, CEO and co-founder, Tikal Industries
Karen Weigert, Reset sustainability contributor, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise