Here is a growing and incomplete list of links we can learn from and share. Comments and recommendations welcomed.
One very important report that initiated this work is called Our Great Lakes Commons: a people's plan to protect the Great Lakes forever.
Book Recommendations
Governing the Commons, by Elinor Ostrum
The Long-Shining Waters, by Danielle Sosin
A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water
Elixir: A History or Water and Humankind, by Brian Fagan
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, by Alex Prud’Homme
The Dynamic Great Lakes, by Barbara Spring
The Great Lakes Water Wars, by Peter Annin
A 1000-Mile Great Lakes Walk, by Loreen Niewenhuis
Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age (Cambridge University Press, 2014)., by Mary Christina Wood
Video Recommendations
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
FLOW: How did a handful of corporations steal our water?
FLOW: For Love of Water
Jake: Indian Giver
The Story of Bottled Water
Tapped
Thirst
The Waterfront
What’s in the Water and H20 Oh No, from the Center for Urban Pedagogy
Gasland
Waterlife (and interactive documentary about the Great Lakes)
Great Lakes Commons Map channel
Great Lakes Commons channel
Curriculum Recommendations
NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship.
Haggerty Museum of Art – K-8 Water Across Curriculum
Learn about your Virtual Water footprint through food
Drinking Water & Ground Water Kids’ Stuff
The Story of Bottled Water
Water Journeys
Join The Movement to UnBottle Water