Creeklife
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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
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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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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What are you REALLY drinking from your plastic water bottle?
Did you know that bottled water companies are not required to test for asbestos in their water? They are also allowed to have levels of contaminants such as lead and bacteria. Traces of E. coli are pr…
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How to Help Honey Bees & Reduce Colony Collapse Disorder
Topics: Bees Helping the environment is a lofty goal and luckily also an attainable one! Helping to clean up roadsides, take care of our watersheds, reduce pollution, and save the distressed cre…
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Endangered Birds That Migrate through Ohio
Topics: Bird Populations and Wildlife. Top Five Endangered Water Birds in Ohio. As of 2010, sixteen of Ohio’s birds were listed as endangered and most of these are water birds. …
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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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DDT: Still Threatening the Health of Your Community
What we put in the earth stays with us for a long time, and will continue affecting our health for decades to come. According to a recent article published by Environmental Health News, at least one s…
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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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Plastic Bag Waste
Related Topics: Plastic Bags and Plastics & The Environment Are plastics really that bad? As you well know, the prevalence of plastic in our world is profound. It surrounds us all of…
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Help the Environment by Reducing Food Waste
Most people don’t realize this, but food production is one of society’s most environmentally destructive activities. The greenhouse gasses generated from agriculture are more than those em…
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Air Pollution Facts From Global to Local
Earth is the only planet in our solar system where humans can live and breathe. But air pollution threatens our vital atmosphere, and thus our health. This phenomenon affects communities both locally …
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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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Environmental Preservation: How To Help Protect The Environment
Environmental preservation is necessary because Earth’s resources are limited and threatened by human activity. Environmental protection focuses on efficiency, protecting wildlife and flora, and…
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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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Bowling Green State University: Working Towards Sustainability
How Bowling Green State University, Ohio is working towards sustainability Bowling Green State University, located in beautiful Bowling Green, Ohio has made great strides in recent years in dev…
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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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Are Mosquitoes Good for the Environment?
Mosquitoes are the small winged pests that feast on our blood. They are the reason why more than one million people die each year from the diseases they carry. From the website, nature.com: …
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Understanding Rhythms in Nature To Avoid Pollution
In the modern world, we have a calendar that moves directly forward. The year 2014 comes after the year 2013. And the month of June comes after the month of May. For us, time is a linear process. Time…
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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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Ecofriendly Disposal of Coffee Grounds in the Garden
Topics: Composting, Recycling and Nitrogen What do used coffee grounds and environmental conservation have to do with each other? A lot, considering the ubiquity of coffee. This beverage has become a …
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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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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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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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Why people (and you) should give to charity
We plan all kinds of things to do with our hard earned money. Giving it away, however, isn’t one of the first things that comes to mind. Sure, plenty of us will throw a 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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