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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 Neuse River: a Valuable North Carolina Resource
Sunset on the Neuse River by Travis (Flickr). The winding Neuse River begins in Piedmont, North Carolina, and empties into the Pamlico Sound. Along the way, it encompasses over 6,000 miles of watershe…
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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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The Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree
Christmas is just around the corner. Many people are thinking about what they’re going to purchase for this holiday season. So much has been written about conservation in gift giving: homemade p…
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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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How Garlic Mustard Harms the West Virginia White Butterfly & How You Can Help
Two things that seem like they should be completely unrelated can have a negative relationship. Garlic mustard and the West Virginia White Butterfly present an example of this phenomenon. Photo…
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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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Top 5 Ideas That Will Put The FUN in Fundraising!
Charities and non-profit organizations are always on the look out for new ideas on how to raise money for their various causes. People involved with non-profits want to know how to gain and ret…
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How to Lead An Environmental Cleanup
Environmental cleanup begins with the big picture of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which takes responsibility for cleanup of hazardous materials at various sites throughout t…
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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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Girl Scouts in Action: Helping the Environment
There’s a famous proverb that says, “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Zenobia Barlow wrote, “Children are born with a sense of w…
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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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What You Need To Know About Water Pollution
Water pollution is a global challenge that threatens the health, food security, economy, and ecosystems of communities everywhere. The first step toward positive change is to learn more about how and …
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Save the Environment by Not Eating Meat (Sometimes)
Topics: Environmental Health and Ways to help the environment How Sometimes-Vegetarianism is Saving the Planet One Meal at a Time Let’s face it: many of us find meat delicious. Fragrant barbecue…
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Environmental Cleanup on Private Property: How to Identify Landowners and Get Their Permission
When activists get organized to clean up a natural area, like the biodiverse banks of a creek, everybody benefits, including the people who own the land. However, you still need to get permission from…
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Protecting the Environment One Re-Usable Bag at a Time
Topics:Protecting the environmentAccording to the EPA, everyone lives in a watershed, “…and our individual actions can directly affect it.” A watershed is any area of land off of which water ru…
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Watershed Road Signs: Vital to the Environmentalist’s Battle Against Obscurity
Scientific research is used every day to help the environment. Usually, it occurs through university labs and public interest foundations, but we’d like to encourage you to do some research of y…
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Simple Ways to Help the Environment as a Business-Owner
Some people may read an article about helping the environment, and take away one or two action steps to adopt in their daily life. Others may listen to politicians promoting a platform that includes i…
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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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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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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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Santa Ana Watershed Survey Sheds Light on Resource Protection
The recently completed Santa Ana Watershed Basin Study highlights the need for more protective action focused on watersheds. Officials concluded that better management practices are essential to ensur…
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Early 2014 Pollution: Disaster for West Virginia Watershed
2014 has already been a bad year for the watersheds of West Virginia. March has barely started, but the state has suffered three major spills. The result is a dangerous increase in the toxicity of loc…
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Online Fundraising for Events
If you are going to raise money for a cause online, there are a number of things that can be learned from marketers. As you know, marketers are in the business of selling products and services. While …
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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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