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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
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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Methylmercury Poisoning: Waterborne Madness
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a very simple organo-metallic compound with a devastating ability to pollute and poison. The ramifications of widespread industrial use of methylmercury first appeared more tha…
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Protecting the Grand River environment is important
Water is probably the most valuable resource on the planet, which is why it is so important to protect and preserve watersheds around the world. To be able to protect these places, it is important to …
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Sci-Fi Visions of Our Planet’s Possible Future: The Hunger Games and Avatar
The term “utopia” was first coined by Sir Thomas More, who published a philosophical tract by that name in 1516 CE. His book described a fictional paradise inhabited by a perfect, peaceful…
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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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Fecal Contamination In Our Drinking Water
Topics: Drinking water , Environmental Health and Water Pollution Microbial contamination of drinking water “The present water closet system, with all its boasted advantages, is the wor…
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Idaho Gold Miners Not Rushing to Areas with River Dredging Rules
Removing the concentrate from gold sluice. Photo by John Louis. Ever since the California Gold Rush began in 1848, American opportunists have been passionately pursuing shiny metal in rivers and strea…
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How to Make Extra Money For Yourself Using Creeklife
People and organizations have been using crowdfunding to finance everything from independent movies, board games to starting a new business. Creeklife is a unique specialized site that allows you to r…
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Sneaky Little Tricks to Help Save the Environment
Image by natdiaz (Flickr). Are these tricks sneaky? Yes. Are they little? Certainly. Will they help you save the environment? Absolutely! So does it matter that they are sneaky and little? Nope. What …
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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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Helping the Environment by Thinking Ahead
If you’ve ever been on a creek cleanup crew, you’ve probably had reason to ask yourself, “For goodness’ sake, why did someone put this here?” After all, the idea that old…
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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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Boy Scouts of America Helping the Environment
Boy Scouts of America and The Environment Related topics: Ways to help the environment and Scouting Articles Adam Tuttle in his uniform with an Eagle Scout badge. Most of us know that boy scouts go on…
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Forest Friendship: Nature Photography & Natural Philosophy
Let’s Be Forest Friends is a photo blog full of quiet woodland moments, captured by someone who “stops to smell the flowers”–probably literally as well as figuratively. Th…
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Environmental health and the importance of watersheds
If you’re like me, you don’t take a moment each day to be thankful for plants and Website Developers. But if you’re even more like me, you think maybe you should. Plants aren’t…
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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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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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Conserving Amphibian Environments to Save Our Froggy Friends
I grew up in the South, surrounded by the music of frogs chirping. They were an important sign that spring was coming, like crocuses poking up in the garden. Nowadays it is rare to see a frog, or even…
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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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5 Tips for Increasing Personal Environmental Motivation, from Visiting Botanical Gardens to Reading Sci-Fi
There are many ways to help the environment. For example, we’ve written extensively about reducing pollution and promoting community activities that will raise eco-awareness. From collecting mon…
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Environmental aspects of blue jeans
The Death of Denim: How Great it Would be! Denim is a cotton product. It is cellulose so it will deteriorate in the environment provided it is not combined with man made materials. It is easily…
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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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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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Paddle for the Environment: River City Eco Fest in Jacksonville, Florida
Many of us are committed to reducing our personal daily impact on the environment, but it takes the efforts of an entire neighborhood–or an entire city–to build a better, cleaner future. C…
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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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