Headwaters
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Headwaters News is a new citizen-based media project focusing on environmental, public health and economic concerns in the water-rich region from Minnesota to eastern Ontario.
A key focus of
Headwaters is to reflect concerns and interests from a broad
socio-economic, multi-cultural spectrum and to create a platform for
citizens throughout the Great Lakes who do not necessarily identify
themselves as “writers” or “environmentalists.”
Headwaters’
goal is to provide an avenue for a regional discussion in hopes of
influencing communities, individual behavior/opinion, corporate conduct,
mainstream media, and public policy by providing and distributing solid
news and information.
Headwaters just launched a new media website – www.headwatersnews.net –
and, with the help of the Western Mining Action Network, Indigenous
Environmental Network, and a small group of volunteers and contributors,
finished a Spring 2010 print publication. The first edition is a
themed edition based on the proposed hardrock mining district throughout
the Great Lakes region and contains 24-pages of information written by
citizens from around the Great Lakes (it is also available in digital
format, online).
For Headwaters’ next publication we would
like to broaden the spectrum and report on a number of environmental and
economic issues that affect the region and accompany these articles
with high-quality illustrations and photographs that will make the print
issue attractive to a broad group of people. We are still in the early
stages of planning content for the next issue, due to come out in Fall
2010.
We expect this project will create greater regional awareness of various public health and social and economic issues in the Great Lakes that currently receive little, if any coverage. We feel that this will help to create a more informed and engaged public and will make the efforts of others working on similar issues a little easier. Ultimately, we hope to permanently influence citizens to conduct their own research and investigations in the Great Lakes region.
