Video Library

Stay informed with our latest webinars and educational videos

Microplastics Webinar

Learn more about regional work to address microplastic pollution from guest presenter Leah Holloway with the Plastic Free Milwaukee Coalition

Educational Webinar – Healing Our Waters

Hear from Laura Rubin, Director of Healing Our Water, to explore how your business can combat environmental challenges in the Great Lakes

Solar Tax Credits for Businesses

The GLBN is here to connect you with regional developers to help kickoff your energy efficiency journey.

Energy Efficiency Tax Credits Available to Business Owners

The GLBN is here to connect you with regional developers to help kickoff your energy efficiency journey.

Webinar: Maximizing Green Savings for your Business or Home

Learn from regional energy industry experts how your business can utilize incentives to access carbon reduction technologies.

Federal EV Credits Available to Business Owners

The GLBN is here to connect you with regional developers to help kickoff your EV journey.

Against the Current (Part 2)

Part 1 of 3. The history of Line 5

As the fight to protect the Great Lakes from a disastrous oil spill continues, we remind you of the looming threat posed by Enbridge’s Line 5.

Part 2 of 3. An overview of Pipeline 5 and alternative solutions

Part 3 of 3. Viable Alternatives to Line 5

As the climate changes and new technologies are adopted, it’s time we acknowledge the viability and success of clean energy.

Talking The Talk: Business Advocates for Clean Energy

Members of the Great Lakes Business Network leverage their business voices to support a regional clean energy economy.

Walking The Walk: GLBN Businesses for Clean Energy

Members of the Great Lakes Business Network highlight clean energy projects that benefit their businesses across the Great Lakes region.

Line 5: An urgent threat to Great Lakes Businesses and Communities

GLBN members lift up why so many businesses are calling for the shutdown of aging oil pipelines located in the "worst possible place for a spill" in the Great Lakes

Against the Current (Invasive Carp)

Learn how Asian carp are harming our waters, how they threaten our values, what has been done, and what still needs to be done to stop Asian carp.

Great Lakes Business Network Presents: The Threat of Harmful Algal Blooms

Members of the Great Lakes Business Network highlight the importance of clean water to their businesses and communities

Invasive Asian Carp – Great Lakes Business Network webinar

Hear how Asian Carp are impacting the local economy and what is being done to stop their migration into the Great Lakes

GLBN Lake Erie webinar

What harmful algae blooms mean for the health of Lake Erie and the local economy.

Larry Bell | Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now sits down with the President of Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Larry Bell to discuss the Enbridge Line 5 Pipeline.

Northern Michigan Business Owners Say Line 5 Not Worth the Risk

Business owners discuss how a rupture of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac would impact their businesses and the economy of northern Michigan.

The Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Disaster: Actions Speak Louder than Words

Looking at the 2010 Enbridge oil spill into the Kalamazoo River, Larry Bell of Bell's Brewery and a local homeowner criticize the actions Enbridge took following the oil spill, and address the threat of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac in light of those actions.

Seven Years and Counting: The Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Disaster

Seven years after an Enbridge pipeline spilled between 840,000 and 1.1 million gallons of oil into Talmage Creek and the Kalamazoo River, cleanup efforts are still ongoing.

Great Lakes, Bad Lines

Discover the story of two Michigan born adventurers and their 500-mile, fossil-free journey across Michigan's Upper Peninsula along the route of Enbridge Oils Line 5, a 63-year-old pipeline that threatens our inland waters and Great Lakes.

Shut Down Line 5: Ice Coverage

Line 5 is a multifaceted issue, but in this video the Kent County Water Conservation highlights the problems surrounding ice coverage, the Straits and the aging pipelines.

The Dirty Secret at the Bottom of the Great Lakes: Oil & Water

The world's largest crude oil transporter has a secret buried deep in the Great Lakes—two aging oil pipelines that transport 23 million gallons of crude oil through the largest body of freshwater on earth.

Study: Enbridge Line 5 ‘worst place’ for Great Lakes spill

The pipeline runs through Canada and Michigan, transporting 23 million gallons of light crude and liquid natural gas each day

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