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What is the Lake Superior Living Labs Network?
The Lake Superior Living Labs Network (LSLLN) serves as a platform to connect academics and community groups to develop new partnerships and collaborative initiatives across the Lake Superior watershed.
The LSLLN has evolved out of a partnership between Lakehead University, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Lake Superior College, Algoma University, and a number of non-profit organizations, businesses, First Nations and tribal governments across the region.
Goals
Goal 1.- To enhance capacity for regenerative social-ecological systems at the local and regional
scales in the Lake Superior watershed.
Goal 2.-To expand the living labs approach from the local to the regional scale in the Lake
Superior watershed.
Objectives
• Support and strengthen existing sustainability-related teaching, research and action
initiatives
• Develop case study profiles to highlight examples
• Identify and evaluate tools and processes that respond to sustainability related
challenges
• Analyze existing initiatives, identify common concerns and opportunities for
greater impact
• Connect the hubs through workshops and Sustainability Summits
• Strengthen existing and new partnerships between academic and community-based
organizations
• Establish new collaborative projects
• Establish a governance structure to ensure equitable and meaningful long-term
partnerships and plan for long-term sustainability of the LSLLN
• Experiment with tools and processes for learning and working together
Partners
- Dr. Nairne Cameron, Algoma University
- Colin Templeton, Food Bank Farm
- Carson Beauregard, Harvest Algoma
- David Thompson, Rural Agri-Innovation Network (RAIN)
- Dr. Laura Wyper, “NORDIK” “Algoma University & NORDIK”
- Marissa Ditoro, Algoma University Student Union & People’s Garden
- Dr. Paulette Steeves, Algoma University
- Don McGorman, Clean North
