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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
Protect the Environment by Fighting Re-Zoning
Zoning laws in the U.S. are intended to allow cities to develop according to an efficient, aesthetically pleasing plan. Although cities have zoning committees whose job it is to determine how land may…
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How Farming Practices Could Prevent Algae Blooms.
Topics:Importance of watersheds and algal blooms Sustainable farming practices will help reduce algal. We are standing toe-to-toe with a choice that will change the world forever: …
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Universities Supporting The Community They Live In
Topics: Community Involvement and Organizations. Ways to Serve the Community. In the face of the economic depression throughout the world, students, faculty, and administrators ar…
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Pennsylvania Government Protects Watersheds with Growing Greener Grants
More than $20.65 million is going towards projects in Pennsylvania for the protection of watersheds across the state, as announced by Governor Tom Corbett. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environme…
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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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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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Canada: Raw Sewage into Ocean
As the world moves towards establishing new standards of waste water treatment, especially in the urban areas, Canada has no such standards. As a result, some cities of Canada have state-of-the-art se…
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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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Environmental Cleanup: These Invaders Threaten Your Watershed
What it means to have invasive species in your watershed. Imperial Star Destroyer by Adam Kop. Picture this, if you will: a tiny pod slips unnoticed into the cargo bay of a ship bound for the Empire&#…
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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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Guerilla Gardeners: Waging a Green War, One Seed Bomb at a Time
The days are getting warmer, the nights are getting shorter, and if I don’t check my jeans’ pockets before I wash them, they’re likely to be full of lettuce sprouts by the time they&…
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How to Use Social Fundraising to Build Community and Reach Your Goals
As you know, if you want fundraising success, you need to focus on more than just reaching the short-term dollar amount. As a Creeklife member, we want to introduce you to the concept of social…
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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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Five Practical Ways To Reduce Watershed Pollution
Here’s an eye-opening statistic: The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 44% of stream miles, 64% of lake acres and 30% of bay square miles are not suitable for fishing or swimming…
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River Dredging In The Great Lakes
Dredging will always be a serious concern in the Great Lakes As an important transport route for tons of cargo goods annually, the Cuyahoga river serves as a critical channel economicall…
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Microplastics In The Great Lakes Food Supply
In the midst of the ongoing environmental crisis, the maintaining of our natural bodies of water is of key importance to mankind’s future. Unfortunately, over the past few years we have begun…
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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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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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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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Poetry for Environmental Preservation: Save Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Promoting Environmentalism Related topics: Environmental Health and Community cleanup Efforts to preserve the environment can take many forms, some of them unexpected. A Michigan nonprofit, Save the W…
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An Aquatic Introduction to Ashtabula County
Ohio’s Ashtabula County is well-known for its beaches, rivers, and agriculture. It is not surprising that life in the area revolves around water. In fact, “Ashtabula” comes from an 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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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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Crowdfunding a Community Compost Center
What Good a Compost Bin Could do Composite sites are an easy way to bring the community together and strengthen the local neighborhood. In this article, we’ll give you examples and links to comp…
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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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