ALLIANCE DONORS DONOR PROFILE DONOR PROFILE EVERY DOLLAR MATTERS Thank you to the many generous donors who supported us in our 2015 fiscal INSIDE year (Sept. 1, 2014 - Aug. 31, 2015). Listed below are our donors $1,000 and above. *Thank you to our 2015 Taste of the Great Lakes Sponsors TOXIC ALGAE BYE-BYE BEADS FROM SHORE TO SHORE Region looks to land to clean Victory: Great Lakes to be free Volunteers on front lines of Great FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS Anonymous Drs. Robert and Beth Krippendorf & ORGANIZATIONS The David and Debbie Chizewer Charitable Fund Howard A. Learner* up Great Lakes water of microbeads Lakes protection $300,000+ Dewoskin/Roskin Foundation Andrew and Janet Lubetkin Aveda Dominion Foundation Sarah Solberg Ludden The Joyce Foundation EarthShare Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Martin, Jr. $100,000 - $299,999 EarthShare Ohio Ann McGill Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Eckroth Planning Group, Inc.* Katherine Newhouse The George Gund Foundation Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc.* Nicholas and Susan Noyes ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Grand Victoria Foundation ERM Group Foundation, Inc. John and Katie Palmer WaterMarks McDougal Family Foundation Fuzzy Math, LLC Clifford and Cheryl Pixler Metabolic Studio G. William Walker Trust David Reinisch and Julie Kiefer Fund* Shaw and Betty Walker Foundation Harmann Family Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Anthony and Jacquelyn Sartoris Photo courtesy of Deborah Ramstorf $50,000 - $99,999 Foundation Pamela Schaefer Photo courtesy of James Dagg Anonymous Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Rachel Schneider Deborah Ramstorf’s passion for Lake Michigan The Brookby Foundation Kornblith and Lasser Family Fund of the Jewish Theresann and David Seeger* is rooted in memories of childhood beach Paddle Relay organizer James Dagg, left, with Greg The Crown Family Communal Fund Sanjiv Sinha and Ana Sirviente visits there with her father. Barton, a two-time Olympic gold medalist kayaker from Deschutes Brewery Lundquist Charitable Fund Chad Solberg Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Mark Mihalo Family Dentistry* Duncan Stuart and Kathryn Eckhoff-Stuart* Michigan who donated the event’s flagship vessel. Fund for Lake Michigan Miller, Cooper & Co., Ltd.* Robert and Hope Taft The Weissman Family Foundation Mission Accounting, Inc. Frank L. Washelesky $10,000 - $49,999 My Great Lake Jennifer and Allen Weaver Lake Michigan is part of Alphawood Foundation Ostrow Reisin Berek & Abrams, Ltd. Lyman and Deana Welch Altair Engineering Patricia Smith Wilmeth Fund Virginia A. Welch her family — and legacy Altria Group Pepper Construction Group* Mr. and Mrs. Ziemba* Paddle relay has Anonymous PepsiCo Employee Engagement Fund IN MEMORIAM When Deborah Ramstorf looks out over Barefoot Wine & Bubbly R.L. Morris & Sons Construction Cookie Canonizado Lake Michigan, she thinks of her father and Bell’s Brewery* The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company* Noel Ruth Gersonde grandfather scanning the same waters in years many winners The Boeing Company Sheldon & Pearl R. Leibowitz Foundation Charlotte Hagelberg Brunswick Public Foundation, Inc. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP* Nancy Herbert gone by. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane James Dagg wanted to coastline,” says Dagg, Buchanan Family Foundation Starbucks Coffee Company William H. Jackson “I look at the lake and think, ‘Wow, it’s so foster enjoyment of the About 120 paddlers Climate Ride Warner Wells Charitable Fund Hank McHale The Comer Foundation Fund Wells Fargo cool that my grandfather looked at it. My father Great Lakes in a “non- signed on for the trek, John Orosz LOVING THE LAKES FROM SHORE TO SHORE Dr. Scholl Foundation Winnetka Garden Club Robert Paddleson looked at it. I look at it,’” she says. motorized way” that many which launched from Earthwatch Institute INDIVIDUALS Hope Ryde So when it came time to plan her estate, Alliance volunteers were on the front could appreciate. Detroit’s Belle Isle in June Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation $100,000+ Michael Schlaack GLISA Estate of Marion Witte Patricia Wilmeth the path was clear. As lines of Great Lakes protection in 2015. So last summer he and came full circle at the Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P.* $50,000 - $99,999 MATCHING GIFT DONORS Ramstorf puts it, she has Sheboygan Falls Middle School combined two loves — end of August. Herman Miller Cares Anne and Stephen Bent Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Longview Foundation-William and Nathalia $10,000 - $49,999 GE Foundation three loves: Lake Michigan, students planted 7,000 dune-grass plants kayaking and endurance Dagg also worked to Dolan Henry T. Chandler and Chris Chandler* John Deere Foundation the local library and local in Wisconsin, and a group of teachers relays — to create a raise awareness of Great Michigan Coastal Management Program, Kay Hoida Dawson Family * Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Department of Environmental Quality Dennis and Connie Keller* land conservation. She from Detroit Public Schools learned how 13-week relay-style tour Lakes issues by partnering The Joyce Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Joan Rothenberg and Kenneth Walchak* The Judy Family Foundation takes nothing for granted to bring local ecology into their classrooms of Michigan’s celebrated with and raising funds Administration $5,000 to $9,999 Kraft Foods Foundation - Matching Gifts Program when it comes to the in Michigan. coastline. The Paddle Relay for seven local charities. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Sustain Larry Bell Northwestern Mutual Investment Services our Great Lakes Stephen and Alisoun Brewster* Great Lakes, so including All told, nearly 15,000 volunteers Around Lower Michigan His employer, Altair Outten & Golden LLP National Parks Conservation Association Jonathan R. Cooper and Rebecca Hartman Robert R. McCormick Foundation the Alliance in her estate cleaned up beaches, restored wildlife was open to anyone who Engineering of Troy, Mich., NOAA and the Illinois Coastal Management Aaron and Whitney Fershee* Ramstorf Salesforce.com Foundation Program Robert and Linda Lanphier plans was a natural way to habitat and connected communities with wanted to join for all or sponsored the event and IN-KIND DONATIONS Paul Bechtner Foundation The Pitruzzelli Family Baker & McKenzie LLP continue to care for the lakes after she’s gone. the Great Lakes — including students part of the 1,100-mile donated $10,000 to the Prince Charitable Trusts Marilyn G. Salon Joshua Basofin Lake Michigan is, after all, “part of the from Chicago’s Truman College, Senn journey as long as they Alliance for the Great REI Joyce and Charles Solberg Big Delicious Planet SC Johnson Jon Subak family,” says Ramstorf. High School and Boy Scout Troop 3894. Photo by Katie Larson came via kayak, standup Lakes. All totaled, some Dale and Judy Bryson Sehgal Family Foundation $2,500 to $4,999 CBD Marketing* It played a starring role in family memories paddleboard or other $50,000 was raised. Solberg Manufacturing Inc.* Anonymous Columbia Yacht Club* University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Nick Bothfeld and Bobbie Brown that range from family picnics on the beach to human-powered vessel. Who won? The Great Peter Eckroth Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Matthew C. Brett and Emily Monnelly her honeymoon 24 years ago. “I thought it would be Lakes, local charities and all Great Lakes Environmental Law Center Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and Linda Cronenwett Thomas P. Healy, Jr. And it’s with her today, just a block from her fun to try to do two things the participants. “It wasn’t NOAA Bob and Janet Helman* Jeffrey B. Hyman, staff attorney at the $5,000 to $9,999 Peter and Dorothy Marks* home in Beverly Shores, Ind. — joining her on at once: promote the more a race,” says Dagg. “It was Anonymous Arthur Mead Martin* Conservation Law Center walks, bike rides and glorious weekend dune green usage of water really just to celebrate the Anonymous Denise Marx* Jenner & Block, LLP Burning River Foundation Susan and Mark Mihalo* Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP hikes. resources here through coastline and for the water Charles R. Evenson Foundation Sarah Morrison and Bill Rogers Law Offices of Frederic C. Goodwill, II Most important, it reminds her of her father, kayaking, and give people sports community to come North Shore Transportation Services, Inc. EarthShare Illinois Meredith Oliver who loved the water, waterskiing and lying in an opportunity to see the together and have fun.” Healing our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition Tina Rongers Quill.com John Dykema and Michelle Maly-Dykema Travis Solberg Rachlis Duff Adler Peel & Kaplan, LLC the sun. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane Family Foundation $1,000 to $2,499 Rhine Hall Distillery* Ramstorf is the newest member of the newly Dawn on Lake Ontario, near the Salmon River in Upstate New York. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Cindy Ackerman* Frank Skiba Lumpkin Family Foundation Anonymous* University of Chicago Abrams Environmental formed Lee Botts Legacy Society, named for Marshall and Jamee Field Family Fund of the Anonymous Law Clinic the woman who founded the Alliance as the few of you will make it a point to visit your putting us at risk of losing the lakes unless we get serious Chicago Community Foundation Anonymous Thomas Van Dam former Lake Michigan Federation back in 1970. favorite lake when it is most unsettled by about solutions. Moosejaw Sarah and Nathan Arnold Michael Wiese, Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge NOAA Marine Debris Program and NOAA Jack and Janis Bails William and Ann Zeiler Members of the society include the Alliance in Anature and awesomely disrupted, to soak in the There are right sides to these debates: Lake Erie should Restoration Center Amy Biewen Robert Zolna their charitable estate plans and are recognized spellbinding moments that make you thankful that your not be toxic all summer, there are clear ways to stop TRIBUTE LIST Belgium Brewing Mr. James J. Blanchard* for their visionary generosity. feet remain on solid land. invasive species, and everyone should expect and receive Oppenheimer Family Foundation Paul R. Botts and Heather McCowen Ed Barden EVERY GIFT The Policy Analytics, LLC* Noelle Brock* Mr. & Mrs. Lee Berlin Photo by Chad Pelishek Photo by Lloyd DeGrane makes an Mostly, though, we look to the lakes for stability, for safe drinking water. Above all, the people living near the RBC Blue Water Project Greg and Anna Brown* Jim Bruno ties that bind, for hours and days of simple pleasures. We largest source of surface freshwater on the planet should The Siragusa Foundation Kevin and Kristi Brown* Susan Cobb Tucker Ellis LLP* Dale and Judy Bryson Lori J. Colman-Kroeter and Cliff Kroeter want them to be reliable, embedded parts of our lives. be able to be part of the solutions. $2,500 to $4,999 Lori J. Colman-Kroeter and Cliff Kroeter Mr. and Mrs. Michael Costello You know the fresh water of the Great Lakes is Every day, the Alliance is challenging assumptions, not Seth Dreier Amli Residential* Sue Conatser and Thomas Terry limited, irreplaceable and belongs to everyone who has only our own, but those of government and the private Cuppow Brian Crabb and Christine Cucinotta Steven and Sue Fish IMPACT “THREATS TO THE GREAT LAKES’ EarthShare Michigan Paul and Diane Culhane Julian Herzing-Burkard the good fortune to live here. And you understand that sector. We make sure every next step gets us closer to Generation IV Charitable Trust Daphne and John Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. David C. Kimball power there are more sinister disruptions at hand, well beyond clean, safe and protected water for everyone. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Ken DeBeaussaert Bill Krienice HEALTH WILL UNDOUBTEDLY Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation Rhonda Dugan Bill Kwiatkowski s nature’s ability to soothe. We can work this way because you have made it Lake Express, LLC* Gary and Sandy Fencik Kammy Lee and Doug Ward People are waking up to news that it is unsafe to drink possible with your commitment and trust. Your choice Michelle Liebetreu ALWAYS BE PRESENT, EVEN of The Libra Foundation Dennis Friedman and Gretchen Effler their tap water. Huge swaths of the lakes are rife with to protect the lakes — for family and friends, to right a Molex* Lisa Gershenson and John Chavez* Pat and Mike McKinnis $220,300s NIB Foundation David Hackett* Eric Mooney AFTER WE’RE LONG GONE, SO Total contributions from 1,074 general toxic algae, making water dangerous to touch, let alone wrong or because the problems just seem too big for one Ocean Conservancy David Hartney Michael E. Perlstein you drink. Asian carp are putting our rivers and lakes, along person — is a choice the Alliance depends on. You are at donors, with an average gift of $149 New Belgium Thomas P. Healy, Jr. Erin Radoux s United States Environmental Protection Agency Amy and Kevin Hogan* James Ridgway LEAVING A LEGACY ON THEIR Your love for the lakes is with thousands of boaters and vacationers, at risk. the center of our work, and I thank each of you for your through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Peter G. Horton Julie Ris and Roy Smith These disruptions will not clear as a storm passes support. Vital Home Systems* Meredith James Danielle Running BEHALF IS A GIVEN.” or season shifts. They are complex, getting worse and Joel Brammeier, President & CEO Wave Series Rosemary Jones Madison Noelle Ryan LARGEST GIFT at the heart of all we do We Energies Foundation Marcia G. Kane* Jeanne Strickland LORI COLMAN, ALLIANCE BOARD CHAIR, ON DONATING $1,000 to $2,499 Jeanie and Murray Kilgour Clare Tallon Ruen Photos courtesy of Deschutes Brewery American Chartered Bank Holly King Emmett Young TO THE LEE BOTTS LEGACY SOCIETY $452,008 “POP-UP” PUB MAKES LASTING IMPACT FROM AVEDA, RAISED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF HUNDREDS OF SALONS Who We Are About 9,000 people raised their IN FIVE STATES The Alliance for the Great Lakes is the largest Executive Committee Joel Brammeier, President & CEO Khalil Ligon, glasses to a good cause last summer Lori Colman, Chair Leolin Bowen, Southeast Michigan Outreach Coordinator organization dedicated solely to protecting and Rachel Schneider, Vice Chair for Development Executive Assistant, Chicago Olga Lyandres, Research Manager when a Chicago lot was transformed restoring the Great Lakes. We work hand in hand Sanjiv Sinha, Ph.D., Vice Chair — Policy Todd Brennan, Bettina Marshall, into a temporary pub to raise funds for 5YEARS Paul Botts, Secretary Watershed Project Manager, Wisconsin Office Manager, Chicago with tens of thousands of volunteers, advocates Frank Washelesky, Treasurer Ethan Brown, Resilience Coordinator Sarah Neville, the Great Lakes. and supporters around the region to pursue

CHICAGO Susan MiHalo, Chair — Nominations Jennifer Caddick, Engagement Director Stewardship Coordinator ALLIANCE Deschutes Brewery’s traveling “pop- Requested Service Return 150 N. Michigan Ave. Joel Brammeier, President & CEO Susan Campbell, Ruth Perret-Goluboff, protective policies, advance on-the-ground action Suite 700 Joy Mulinex, Ex officio Communications Manager Community Coordinator up pub” — a 400-foot bar featuring Thank you HAS and educate our communities.

Chicago, IL 60601 Jamie Cross, Adopt-a-Beach™ Manager Mary Grace Sartoris,

312-939-0838 craft beers — raised about $49,000 for 60601 IL Chicago,

Nate Drag, Development Coordinator BEEN A Fax 312-939-2708 700 Suite Ave., Michigan N. 150 William Jefferson Black Joan Rothenberg Watershed Project Coordinator, New York Carolyn Scholz, the Alliance’s stewardship and education

[email protected] Stephen Brewster Laura Rubin Molly Flanagan, Vice President, Policy Individual Philanthropy Director programs. Another $21,000 went to for your CHARITY 2125 NO. PERMIT www.greatlakes.org

Paul Culhane Rachel Schneider Judy Freed, Marketing Strategist Stephanie Smith, Buffalo • Cleveland • Detroit Thomas Denbow Joyce Solberg Rebecca LaGesse, Database Manager Vice President of Operations Goethe Elementary School, part of IL Chicago,

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Kathryn Bryk Friedman Frank Washelesky Angela Larsen, Lyman Welch, Chicago Public Schools. PAID

Buzz Patterson Lee Botts, emeritus Community Resilience Manager Legal Director 4-STAR POSTAGE U.S.

www.greatlakes.org Jeff Pearsall Henry T. Chandler, emeritus Katharine Larson, Education Manager Hyle White Lowry, More than 60 Alliance volunteers support takeaction.greatlakes.org David Pippen James Griffith,emeritus Michelle Liebetreu, Ohio Outreach Coordinator CHARITY Nonprofit Jeffrey Reutter Institutional Development Manager helped make the event a success, from selling tickets to manning the taps.

This newsletter is printed with soy inks on processed chlorine-free paper comprising 100% post-consumer waste content. No recycled fibers have been rebleached with chlorine-containing compounds, and any virgin fibers are totally chlorine-free. TREASURER’S REPORT Resources supporting Lake Erie algae was back, bigger than ever in 2015 Alliance’s work still oledo, Ohio, is still reeling after a toxic growing algae bloom contaminated its drink- Toledo algae spurs Thanks to the financial support of our business, civic leaders advocates and champions, the Alliance ing water supply in 2014 and trig- completed another successful year with T into action cash contributions and our cash reserve gered a drinking-water ban throughout the continuing to grow. This financial stability ast summer on Lake Erie was another for the allows the Alliance to expand our reach area. The bloom was back last year, growing record books: The algae bloom recorded there across the Great Lakes region, invest in Lwas considered the most severe in this century, longer-term protection the largest since scientists began tracking the and renewal projects, to record-breaking dimensions and affecting blooms in 2002. and address urgent The scenario played out just a year after a toxic issues that threaten all of Western Lake Erie. On the other side algae bloom on Lake Erie contaminated Toledo’s the Great Lakes. water supply and prompted a 2 1/2-day drinking The Alliance of the lakes, Lake Michigan’s bay of Green water ban for the area’s 500,000 residents. is proud of our It triggered a seismic reaction. leadership role in the At the state and federal levels, the Alliance and new federal ban on Bay suffers from a chronic ‘dead zone‘ each key partners helped secure a commitment by the plastic microbeads, Photo by Lloyd DeGrane governors of Michigan and Ohio, and Ontario’s and of the inroads made against algae- summer: an area of algae-infested water so Brent Petersen, Demonstration Farm Network manager for Brown County, works premier, that by 2025 the phosphorus pollution causing nutrient pollution. Yet we must with farmers who are modeling how to curb farmland runoff to protect their land feeding Lake Erie’s toxic algae will be cut 40 percent continue our fight against the sources of lacking in oxygen it can’t support life. and the waters of Green Bay. — or 5 million pounds. toxic algae, the problem of invasive species, John Mitterholzer of the Gund Foundation says and the other key threats to the Great Knowing that pollution — much of it it’s now up to organizations like the Alliance to Lakes. The support we receive is crucial to make sure the states adhere to their commitments the Alliance’s ability to play a major role in to cut phosphorus to Lake Erie. addressing these issues while also reaching from the fertilizers and manure that run off “There are lots of ways to address the need to local communities through education, reduce phosphorus, but the most obvious is we restoration and renewal projects. We are farmland — knows no boundaries, the Alli- need better policies in place,” said Mitterholzer, very grateful to the multitude of supporters whose foundation is funding some of the Alliance’s who made 2015 our best year yet. ance has been a force in helping shape a so- nutrient work. I would also like to thank the members of the 2015 Finance Committee — former lution in both regions. chairwoman Sue Conatser, Paul Culhane TOXIC ALGAE ‘ON EVERYONE’S and Gerry Bilek — for their continued RADAR SCREEN’ commitment and oversight. We remain Along the way, the crisis is opening doors Jim Harpen of Toledo Rotary says the focused on managing and utilizing the drinking-water crisis of August 2014 “put Alliance’s resources for the protection and for new leaders who understand just how the toxic algae problem on everyone’s radar restoration of the Great Lakes. Thanks also screen.” to Joel Brammeier, president and CEO, important it is to confront the destructive The Lake Erie business and civic and Janet Hanley, our accountant, for their community was galvanized. continuing support and guidance. impacts of toxic algae. Recognizing the serious economic fallout Photo by Lloyd DeGrane from compromised or at-risk drinking water, Respectfully, NEW Water’s John Kennedy on the Bay Guardian, workboat for the organization’s business and civic leaders from around Aquatic Monitoring Program. Launched by Kennedy, the program has been Lake Erie stepped forward to address the Photo by Lloyd DeGrane Photo by Lloyd DeGrane collecting water quality data on Green Bay for 30 years running. challenge head on. THE ALLIANCE AND ITS PARTNERS Frank Washelesky, Treasurer More than 350 people attended a Rotary Lake Erie Watershed Crisis Conference EXPENSES in October — led by Toledo Rotary with HELPED SECURE A COMMITMENT support from Rotary International and more 10% than 60 Rotary Clubs around the Lake Erie THAT BY 2025 THE PHOSPHORUS Region Looks to Land Use for Answers on Algae watershed in the U.S. and Canada. 9% Harpen, the conference organizer, says the event was a success in part because POLLUTION FEEDING LAKE ERIE’S 81% Farmers, business leaders work with Alliance to better Great Lakes water the Alliance drummed up interest from its n Green Bay, a handful of farmers are taking the lead partners. on curbing nutrient runoff from their fields. The Alli- “We needed that expertise,” he says. TOXIC ALGAE WILL BE CUT 40 Iance has been helping bring together farmers, county “That’s who we need to work with and land managers and others on the front lines of nutrient hopefully help coordinate with so we’re not PERCENT — OR 5 MILLION POUNDS. pollution to share practices and encourage dialogue that duplicating efforts — not wasting time and links land conservation and water quality. money.” ADMINISTRATIVE $313,530 Those efforts culminated in a January roundtable FUNDRAISING $272,973 that aimed to connect farmers who are committed to Photo by Lloyd DeGrane PROGRAM $2,569,538 improving water quality in the watershed. The Alliance- TOTAL $3,156,041 sponsored event drew 80 participants and an unprec- edented level of interest from area farmers. REVENUES vs. EXPENSES Some of those farmers are emerging as local lead- The tiny plastic microbead — colorful exfoliant in many soaps, “I was very Revenues Expenses ers in the effort to restore clean water in Wisconsin and toothpastes and facial washes — was no match against our angry when I Green Bay. supporters’ fervor to cleanse them from Great Lakes waters. Bead-ban campaign brings victory learned that $2,782,295 2012 After scientists discovered microbeads were evading water Photo by Lloyd DeGrane treatment and collecting in the waters of the Great Lakes, the for years I have $2,186,183 GETTING A GRIP ON ALGAE Brick planted a small cover crop of red clover in the traditionally empty, shaded Alliance worked to channel public outrage into finding a solution. been filling my The problem of nutrient pollution is second only spaces between the tall corn rows. Known as “inter-seeding,” the practice keeps Leading a campaign to raise public awareness and promote a $2,816,669 2013 mouth with — if at all — to the threat of invasive Asian carp the soil on the land and out of the bay of Green Bay after the harvest. legislative fix, the Alliance encouraged many to contact their federal $2,402,198 getting into the Great Lakes, says Casey Eggleston and state lawmakers about banning the beads in favor of readily useless plastic of the Fund for Lake Michigan. available, natural abrasives. particles several $3,347,064 2014 But it’s much harder for a community to grapple THE ALLIANCE HAS BEEN HELPING BRING The Alliance continued to lead throughout 2015, appearing times a day $2,739,552 with, let alone solve. before a congressional committee in May to support the federal every time I “Asian carp are easy to understand. You know TOGETHER FARMERS, COUNTY LAND phase out. Molly Flanagan, vice president for policy, testified that $3,536,338 2015 where they’re coming from, you know where they plastic comprises more than 75 percent of the trash volunteers with brushed my $3,156,041 want to go,” says Eggleston, whose foundation is the Adopt-a-Beach™ Program collect from Great Lakes shores. teeth.” funding some of the Alliance’s work with farmers MANAGERS AND OTHERS ON THE FRONT There’s only so much our volunteers can do, she said, adding: “A Fran Hogg, of 0 $500K $1M$1.5M $2M $2.5M $3M $3.5M $4M near Wisconsin’s Green Bay. “But nutrient pollu- true solution must focus on the sources of plastic pollution.“ Cleveland, writing to NET ASSETS tion is an extremely complicated issue that requires LINES OF NUTRIENT POLLUTION. By the end of December, the public — including thousands her U.S. senator. a lot of different partners and sectors.” responding to Alliance action alerts aimed at state legislatures 2012 $1,979,564 That’s where the Alliance has come in, he says. and Congress — scored a major victory: a federal ban on the 2013 $2,429,991 “They have an ability to bring people together manufacture and sale of personal-care products containing plastic within the same communities — and also geo- microbeads. 2014 $3,127,856 graphically among communities that don’t always Photo by Lloyd DeGrane Scientists worry about the implications for aquatic life and Great 2015 $3,415,682 interact — to share best practices.” Dan Brick, owner of Brickstead Dairy Farm in Greenleaf, Wis., is one of a small number of dairy farmers in Northeast Wisconsin experimenting Lakes health because once waterborne, microbeads can absorb with ways to keep algae-promoting phosphorus pollution — much of it from manure spread on farm fields as fertilizer — out of Green Bay. toxic chemicals and be mistaken for food by fish. 0 $2M $2.5M $3M $3.5M