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Breathing Thing: School Student and Elizabeth Dowdeswell

breathing thing: They can be a draw for tourists, but are often just a backdrop for locals, according to Hamilton Spectator. If you are an environmentalist, you might see them as a living, breathing thing in need of protection, but ask the average high school student and they'll roll their eyes like they would for any five-point answer on a geography test. For others they mean work. On their own, they are Ontario, Superior, Huron, Erie and Michigan. You can see them from space, but now a group of prominent Ontarians, helped along by the province lieutenant-governor, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, is looking to put them on the map — so to speak — with a campaign to brand the importance of the world largest freshwater ecosystem onto peoples' hearts and minds. "Why not The Amazon rainforest is the lungs of the planet. Together they are the Great Lakes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.