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Earth Month Origins: The Movement That Changed Our Water Forever
Each April, Earth Month builds on the legacy of Earth Day, first held on April 22, 1970, when an estimated 20 million Americans gathered in response to growing concerns about widespread environmental damage and limited laws in place to protect clean air, clean water, public health and pollution.
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
Why I am collecting postcards to #ProtectCleanWater
By Tom Hoffman, Western Pennsylvania Director I grew up in upstate New York and was very fortunate to go to a YMCA camp on the shores of Lake George in the Adirondacks when I was a kid. To get from my tent in the Intermediate Unit to the Mess Hall I followed a mountain stream down towards the lake. It was always a tough choice between eating and hanging out in the stream and watching what was happening in there. Newts, tadpoles, frogs were in abundance. It is those streams that were such a part of my childhood that are now so much at risk. Polluters, who want to hide their toxic waste under