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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
The Benefits of a Volunteer Monitoring Program Flow Two Ways
Volunteer monitoring programs are an excellent way to keep tabs on local watersheds. Individuals from the community offer their time and effort to observe and record conditions in creeks, streams, and…
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My Lake Has Invasive Species, Now What?
The following article is an aquatic followup to “How to Handle Invasive Plants in Your Local Environment”. Once an invasive species has entered a fishery or any other body of water, it is …
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The Drinking Water Crisis in Review
Amar Guriro describes his photo: “A resident of Achhro Thar […] is taking his camel to get well water. [This part of Pakistan] is facing acute potable water shortage.” One commenter …
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How to Use Trusts to Protect the Environment
The American legal system is rooted in English law, which is in turn rooted in the ancient and complex feudal system. We might think our modern ways of organizing citizenship and government have littl…
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Production Follows Values
Topics: Bees Companies with the same ideals end up sinking their roots into the same soil, not in competition but in mutually nourishing coexistence. These groups work together to promote a healthy ec…
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Protect a Watershed by Getting Involved
How to protect watersheds Your local watershed is a vital source of clean water for the homes and habitats in your community. And yet it is threatened every day by routine pollution and unchecked wate…
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Fundraising Ideas For Football – Get Into The Game!
Topics: Crowdfunding, Fundraising and Raising Money Fundraising Ideas For Football Games – Flag Fundball Flag football MPR Photo/Jennifer Simonson ♦ As one of our many fund…
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Putting Watershed Road Signs In Your Community
Watershed road signs are an important means of getting your community involved in protecting its watersheds, but the prospect of actually getting them installed may seem a little daunting. Road signs …
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Messing with Mother Nature: The Grey Wolf and Yellowstone
There are two facts that I would like to address today. First, Mother Nature follows a very specific, and unchanging set of rules. The more we break, or change, or completely disregard those rules, th…
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Guide to Planting Helpful Plants for Creek Restoration
There are a lot of ways to help your local creek system: cleaning up trash from the banks of a stream, addressing Superfund sites, or even changing your car washing habits. All of these actions will i…
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How do Artificial Waterways Affect Watershed Pollution?
When we think about fighting watershed pollution, we often think about the efforts we must take to protect the waterways that occur naturally in our communities. From small creeks to roaring rivers, t…
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The role of art in environmental awareness
Could it be that our failure to tackle environmental concerns is not a result a shortage of information but rather our inability to imagine? After a recent showing of animal portraits, viewer’s perc…
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How Do Rivers Form?
From the Mississippi to the Colorado to the Potomac, natural waterways are vital to America’s environment, economy, and recreation. But few people know or wonder how these rivers formed their co…
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Creek Restoration in Colorado: Crucial to Many Species
“I dreamed of the future, clean skies, water, and soil. Then I awoke and saw nothing but environmental disaster.” So says Bill Heyman, and although his statement is dramatic, it hits on th…
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Social Impact Bonds are on the Uptick
Making a true social impact that provides valuable change in a community can be difficult. Beyond simply getting the dedication of passionate individuals, funding large projects m…
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i-Tree Hydro: Gathering Information for Urban Watershed Management
The EPA encourages municipal authorities to use green infrastructure when mitigating urban stormwater problems. More and more cities are basing their strategies around natural resources, helping to re…
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Reintroduced Northern Riffleshell Thrives in Ohio’s Darby Creek
The life cycle of the northern riffleshell mussel is surprising both in its violence and its pacifism. The female riffleshell captures a small fish and releases its larvae onto the host. As the host f…
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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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New Environmental Remediation Fund
In a recent announcement made by the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), the PIDC is providing a new resource in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency: the environme…
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Pollution Isn’t Pretty: Campaigning for Mid-Michigan Watersheds
Oops, that pollution actually is kinda pretty. Photo by Mike King. A new campaign in the center of Michigan is looking to raise awareness for contaminated watersheds. The project, Pollution Isn’…
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Underground Aquifers: The Great Lakes Beneath Our Feet
Back in the 1960s, there were many references to how the American West was transforming its arid land into productive farmland. We were transforming our deserts into oases of abundance. Substantial us…
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Wilma Dykeman and Her Impact on the RiverWay
Wilma Dykeman was an inspirational woman, advocate and author. Her legacy lives on in many of the projects that she held close to her heart, like the French Broad River in the mountains of Nort…
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Top Ways to help the environment -Use Rain Barrels
Many of us want more ways to help the environment and don’t often hear about rain barrels. They are a simple way to conserve water and reduce your summer watering bills. They reduce water pollut…
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The Vast and Vital Drainage Basin of the Colorado River
Meander of the Colorado River; photo by CitizenFresh (deviantART). The drainage basin of the Colorado River constitutes the 7th largest watershed in North America. Size estimates vary from source to s…
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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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