Creeklife
Articles for the Enviroment
Clean up the world!
Identify or find an outdoor issue. Pledge money to fix the problem, or do the work and earn cash!
Clean up the world!
Identify or find an outdoor issue. Pledge money to fix the problem, or do the work and earn cash!
Clean up the world!
Identify or find an outdoor issue. Pledge money to fix the problem, or do the work and earn cash!
How Creeklife can the environment
Creeklife is an online fundraising tool to raise money and create jobs for personal fundraisers, non-profit fundraising, community funding that raises public awareness for outdoor projects or events.
Creeklife Articles
Ways to Reduce Summer Pollution Without Getting Hot and Sticky
Summer is here! For many people, the next few months will include hot and sticky weather. We’re not necessarily complaining: warmth will be a welcome change after such a cold winter. However, th…
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Diclofenac Contamination & Vultures
Diclofenac is principally an antibiotic drug given to commercial domestic animals. In countries where cattle farms are abundant, Diclofenac is used extensively to treat bovine diseases. For many years…
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How to Handle Invasive Plants in Your Local Environment
You have identified invasive plants on your property, and now you’re wondering about the next step. Although prevention is the best method of control, you still have some options to minimize the…
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One Tiny Creek at a Time…
Here is a story about how one person is making a little difference for his community one tiny creek at a time. Backyard Creeks is an aspiring, new, open- source, non-profit…
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Know Your Enemy: How to Protect the Environment from Whirling Disease
When you hear the word “trout”, perhaps you think of an angler displaying a specimen of these beautiful sportfish before releasing it back into the water. Maybe you picture an osprey swoop…
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Why YOU Should Donate to Charity Organizations
Giving Money to Charities and People In Need For those of us that have stable financial and living situations, disaster is frightening but ultimately manageable. However, for thos…
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3 Tips to Get Comfortable Riding Your Bike to Work
Leaving your car behind and riding a bike instead is a great way to reduce pollution, while saving money and staying fit at the same time. If you have have a relatively short commute, consider …
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Cultural Eutrophication – An Accelerator
The term eutrophication is described simply as the process in which a body of water receives nutrients (particularly phosphorus and nitrogen) as well as sediment from the area watershed. This p…
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What Algal Blooms Are Caused By & Why They Are Harmful
What Are Harmful Algal Blooms? Algal blooms are taking over warmer waters and harming the ecosystem of these waters. It’s a problem that has drawn high-level government attention: “I think thi…
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How To Improve Environmental Health by Crowdsourcing
Related Articles: Crowdsourcing and Environmental Health Crowdsourced Data Will Improve Everyone’s Health Crowdsourcing is used when contributions from a large group …
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Six Reasons Why Plastic Is Bad for the Environment
Ways to help the environment While this material can be useful, plastic pollution is the leading type of discarded material. Invented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland in New York, …
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Fundraising Events via Crowdfunding
The world of fundraising is changing for businesses and nonprofits alike, and the results are unpredictable. Due to the troubled economy, among other things, folks involved in raising money for specif…
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Bioindicators for Prairie Wetlands
Microbial and Algal Communities Indicating Pollutant Contamination My friends, put on your science hats. It’s gonna be a wild ride. Andrew Young feat. Wikipedia. Bioindicators are living signs t…
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Let’s Go On A Hike
If you’re anything like me, it can be awfully hard to motivate yourself to go exploring when it’s frigid outside. Even though you know you’ll enjoy it! WebMD’s Facebook post wa…
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Make Your New Year’s Resolution Count: Protecting the Environment in 2014
Keeping a New Year’s resolution is hard–that’s common knowledge. We all know the feeling of disappointment and shame that comes with giving up a goal in February or March. For one th…
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How Can We Help Protect Frogs, Toads and Salamanders?
How To Help Protect Frogs, Toads and Salamanders Image by Wikimedia Ohio is home to about 40 amphibian species and at least five of these are endangered, including the Easte…
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Strengthening Boy Scouts’ Youth Citizenship Through Creeklife
As young adventurers, the Boy Scouts of America develop their characters within nature, while simultaneously improving physical fitness through outdoor activities. More importantly, boy scouts learn a…
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Introduction to the Barton Creek Watershed in Austin, Texas
Topics: Aquatic Life and Importance of Watersheds Barton Creek Greenbelt is a Gem! Photo by Anne Worner. The scenic Barton Creek Watershed flows through Texas Hill Country, following the 50-mile creek…
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Environmental Fundraising Ideas That Are Practical & Effective
Topics: Fundraising and Crowdfunding Green Fundraising Ideas For Environmental Projects. Most people value the environment and are concerned about the damage that occurs to the environmen…
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Reduce Urban Runoff & Help Prevent Nonpoint Source Pollution
Photo by solarnu (Flickr). Do you know what happens to rainwater and snowmelt when they flow across the ground and soak into the soil? As the water moves, it picks up pollutants, ultimately spreading …
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Generating Electricity from Water Pipes
It seems as though almost every day we are introduced to a new idea of how we can best create new energy in a sustainable and effective manner. In a time of rising climate change …
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History of the San Antonio River Walk in Texas
Photo by schwagz23 (deviantART). Over the course more than fifty years, the San Antonio River Walk has become one of the main tourist attractions in Texas. From its humble beginnings in 1968, the Rive…
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Sushi and Seafood Extinction: What Can Be Done?
Sushi and seafood represent the last wild food, and quite a popular one at that. With tons of “fish in the sea” many people overlook the idea of a failing ocean ecosystem that is largely du…
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Springtime Environmental Cleanup for Little Kids and their Parents
Parents are responsible for teaching their children how to be kind and thoughtful stewards of the earth. Little kids love learning new things, but it’s difficult to explain environmental issues …
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Muddy Waters, Head Chief at Backyard Creeks
Creeklife matters because it’s the only place on the web that empowers and enables anyone (#evenme) to GET SOMETHING DONE to improve outdoor problems in my community. You might not think a little volunteer operation like ours could accomplish much, but thanks to The Creeklife Community #creeklifers, we ARE making a real and tangible difference one tiny creek at a time.
John Long Founder of Clean Bread & Cheese Creek
Creeklife is an incredible concept and a wonderful tool for small unfunded organizations like our where every dollar counts. Thank you so much for developing it!
David Wang - Portable Testers
As a green business we are always looking to support the environment and by working with our customers who buy a surface roughness tester from us, we help give back to the community. Thanks, Creeklife for all that you have done!
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