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How to Make an Impact for Clean Water
If you feel like you’re getting body-slammed by all the requests coming in through your phone or computer, you’re not alone. Here’s why: almost one-third of total giving happens in the month of December. The causes you care about most, and many others, don’t want to be left out. You may not be able to donate to every worthy nonprofit that asks, but here are some tips on why we hope Clean Water makes your donation list – and how you can maximize your impact. Four Clean Water Giving Tips Do it now. Most of that December year-end giving happens on December 29, 30 or 31, but the sooner that you
Tell Lansing Lawmakers to Stop Attacking our Water in Lame Duck Session!
The Michigan lame duck legislature is racing to pass attacks on our water before the new legislature and Governor are seated in January. We need all Michigan clean water activists to help fight back by making two quick phone calls, one to your State House Representative and one to your State Senator, asking them to oppose the multiple anti-environment and anti-democratic initiatives that corporate lobbyists have pushed lawmakers to pursue during this backward and unaccountable session. You can read more details below about the different dirty water bills that are being pushed, but here's
Living Near Lakes: Reason 1972 to #ProtectCleanWater
By Evan Kreager, Michigan Energy Program Intern It was in college that I was first introduced to the concept of a watershed. For those who don’t know, a watershed is a basin from which all sources of water, both above and below land, are linked by their common course of drainage. Honestly, until I was about 20 years old I’d never even heard the word. But like many things, once a person is aware of an idea, it becomes difficult to escape it. I grew up living next to lakes: Campbell Lake, Gull Lake, and Lake Michigan. I’ve always loved being on the water, and as I grow older I have become
Project Stream Clean - #ProtectCleanWater
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Organizer - Follow Will on Twitter: @TrillChillWill Over the past few decades, Earth Day has become Earth Week. It’s a time for people and communities to connect with each other to take a stand for our environment and water. Earth Week and Earth Month give people a chance to focus finding solutions to everyday environmental problems – like the illegal dumping of trash into our creeks. Unfortunately, illegal dumping is rampant in the Huntington community. But there are people who want to stop it and protect their creeks. “People are always dumping back here, regardless
This Memorial Day, I'll be Thinking About Clean Water
By Cassi Steenblok, Pittsburgh Program Organizer As Memorial Day draws near I can't help but think of summer and all the fun and exciting things I want to do now that the days are getting longer and warmer. For me summer has always revolved around water. I grew up in upstate New York close to two of the Great Lakes, and even closer to the smaller lakes in the Finger Lakes region of the state. I have many fond memories from my childhood swimming, fishing, and canoeing in the lakes, rivers, and streams that were within walking distance from my house. Then when I graduated college I packed up my