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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
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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Ditch Companies: Environmental Allies
When we think of the impact that agriculture has on the environment, some of the first things that spring to mind are pesticides that poison rivers and invasive super-crops that threaten local species…
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Is Marcellus Shale Costing Us Our Drinking Water?
Topics: drinking water and hydraulic fracturing Marcellus Shale – Fracking Pollution or Progress? We all know that most of the earths surface is covered in water – 70%. Of th…
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Rivers and Streams: A Basic Introduction
Related Articles:River Education and Importance of Watersheds Facts About Rivers If you observe a river throughout the shifting seasons, you may notice drastic changes in its levels. The river might r…
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Insects Helping the Environment
Related Topics on Creeklife Insect Related Articles Habitats Many of us consider insects as pests because the only time they enter into our awareness is when they bite or sting us or whe…
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Gravel Pit Restoration: Biodiverse Wetlands for Wildlife Protection
Gravel and sand are valuable construction materials. High transportation costs mean that they must be mined near where they are going to be used. Because these materials are so abundant along riverbed…
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Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the News, Helping the Environment
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts know the importance of helping the environment. Their leaders spend time teaching them eco-strategies, and scouts earn badges for their efforts. This instills in each of the…
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States of Water: Helping Kids Understand and Get Involved with the Environment
Before you start saving the environment, you have to understand it, and the learning process begins during childhood. There are many easy, everyday experiments that will help teach kids the importance…
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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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Ecofriendly Spring Cleaning
Graphic by Ron Mader. Vintage spring cleaning via Nationaal Archief. The sun is shining, the weather is getting warmer, and many of us plan to spruce up our homes for spring. That can involve using a …
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Climate Change Vulnerability to Water Assests in 8 Cities
Topics: Flooding, Environmental Health and Drinking water Climate change and the vulnerability to our drinking water When we talk about ‘climate change’ in this article, we do…
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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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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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River Restoration: 10 Reasons to Remove old Dams
Dams are essential for storing and diverting water, processes which enable hydropower, irrigation, flood control, and consumption by humans or livestock. However, dams have a huge impact on river ecos…
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Land use management affects watershed landscape
Focus in southwestern Ohio, U.S.A. The watersheds in southwestern Ohio have had huge changes in their landscapes over time. These changes include spectacular increases of 460% in rain-field cropland a…
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Harmful Algal Blooms Toxins
Topics:Toxins in Freshwater and phosphorous issues. Are You HAB-ing Trouble With Your Drinking Water? If you live near Lake Erie you’ve likely had to deal with harmful algal blooms …
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Easy Fundraising Ideas Using Affiliate Marketing and Creeklife
We’re all familiar with fund raising that involves selling cookies, chocolate bars, and so forth, where the proceeds go toward a cause. The items that are sold are either purchased in bul…
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Watershed Coordinators: Unique Challenges, Common Goals [Part 1]
The field of watershed management has evolved to serve the needs of some of our most vital ecosystems. Whether a watershed primarily faces the challenge of industrial pollution, habitat destruction, o…
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How Will 3D Printing Affect the Environment?
Over the past few years, 3D printing has flourished in the public’s imagination. This exciting breakout technology is often mentioned in the news, accompanied by utopian predictions about the po…
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How Are You Helping the Earth?
When was the last time you made a conscious effort to help the environment? Can you name more than three ways that you are benefiting Earth today? This world is unfathomably large. And yet, with a sma…
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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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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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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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Top 4 issues in the Everglades watershed
The Everglades watershed has a deserved reputation for being a unique ecosystem full of rare animals and plants, some of which are found nowhere else. Consisting of 2 million acres of wetland habitat,…
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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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