Love Your Greats Day is August 9, 2025
Love Your Greats Day is Saturday, August 9, 2025
What will you do for Lake Huron?
What actions can you take, on Love Your Greats Day, and every day, to protect Lake Huron?
The Tenth Annual Love Your Greats Day is Saturday, August 9, 2025.
A day to celebrate and protect our Great Lakes, called Love Your Greats Day, is held the second Saturday of every August.
In 2025, this special day is on Saturday, August 9.
Take positive action for your lake
Love Your Greats Day organizers say local citizens like you, and local communities like yours, can take positive actions to protect Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes.
There are many ways you can help Lake Huron.
Find out what those actions are and how you can get involved:
Love Your Greats Day organizers say local citizens like you, and local communities like yours, can take positive actions to protect Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes.
There are many ways you can help Lake Huron.
You may take litterless lunches to the beach, properly dispose of waste, and help clean up litter along Lake Huron.
You may use reusable water bottles and refill them at local water refill stations.
“Each positive action you take adds up,” organizers say.
Organizers encourage you to think of actions you can take, as an individual, to protect and improve the Great Lakes. They invite you to choose products that don’t pollute; to reduce your plastic use; and to do projects that slow down or capture water running off of your property.
You might plant trees or donate to local tree planting programs. You may use rain barrels or add rain gardens or wetlands or make other stormwater management improvements.
Consider adding green infrastructure to your property. This benefits creeks, rivers, and Lake Huron. This natural infrastructure can also help us adapt to extreme weather and changing climates.
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Green infrastructure includes forests and woodlots, wetlands and stormwater ponds, soil, and natural areas. It also includes technologies to absorb water and manage runoff. These technologies include rain barrels and permeable pavement. These green technologies filter and store stormwater and replicate ecosystem functions.
Contact your local conservation authority to find out about technical expertise and grant incentives that may be available to help you.
Enhancing natural features and green infrastructure has many benefits to our Lake Huron communities. It can help to store, filter, and treat water running over land during storm events. Adding natural features to our landscape has benefits for air and water quality. It provides habitat for wildlife and pollinators. It makes our communities more resilient and better prepared to adapt during extreme weather as our climate continues to change. Green infrastructure can reduce flood risk by slowing and reducing stormwater. This is an economic benefit as well.
To find out more actions you can take to protect your Great Lake, visit the Healthy Lake Huron – Clean Water, Clean Beaches Partnership at healthylakehuron.ca (and follow Healthy Lake Huron on social media) share your stories by using #loveyourgreats or tagging @loveyourgreats on social media and visit www.loveyourgreats.com