What books, videos, and curriculum advance this initiative?

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

Photo by Daphne Randall