by Laura Cattell Noll | Oct 13, 2017 | Network Blog
Since 2007, the Alice Ferguson Foundation (AFF) has partnered with community members, local jurisdictions, non-profits and businesses to prevent litter through a community-based social marketing campaign. The Regional Litter Prevention Campaign is an outreach campaign...
by Gabrielle Roffe | Oct 3, 2017 | General Resources, Network Blog
This post was reblogged from The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) blog on Medium. The Groundwork Denver Green Teams spend their summer embodying environmental stewardship through their work, visiting public lands to do service work, all while exploring...
by Erin Wall | Sep 8, 2017 | Network Blog
Growing up in Savannah, GA, I always felt a strong tie to water. There was the Savannah River I would see when I would walk down River Street, the many bike rides to the marsh close to my house, and the countless trips to the beach for fun and with my school. These...
by Maria Brodine | Aug 22, 2017 | Network Blog
The Water Infrastructure Problem It’s no secret that infrastructure—including electric grids, fossil fuel pipelines, public transportation lines, bridges, railways, and roads—are in a rapid state of decline in the U.S., and that there is not nearly enough money...
by Kaitlin Popielarz | Jul 31, 2017 | Network Blog
We the People of Detroit In 2008, We The People of Detroit (WPD) was co-founded by Chris Griffith, Aurora Harris, Monica Lewis-Patrick, Cecily McClellan, and Debra Taylor in response to Emergency Management over the city of Detroit and Detroit Public Schools. As a...
by Maria Brodine | Jun 24, 2017 | General Resources, Network Blog
Gentrification. Those of us who work in water cities and towns inevitably encounter it. To have a positive impact on the communities where we work, we must discuss what gentrification means, analyze our own role in the process, and come up with solutions. I worked for...
by freshysites | May 22, 2017 | General Resources, Network Blog
“You’re not only the future, you’re also the today,” Catherine Cushway tells her students. I met Catherine and her ninth grade class from C.A. Frost Environmental Science Middle High School at Teen Rally. River Network hosted its first Teen Rally as part of their...
by freshysites | May 15, 2017 | Network Blog
Once, on a road trip with friends from New York to California, I kept a list of every river and stream we crossed, starting with the Hudson. After the Delaware and the Susquehanna, we found ourselves crossing the Cowpasture River and Salt Sulphur Springs, Clinch River...
by Maria Brodine | Mar 29, 2017 | General Resources, Network Blog, Outreach & Education, Stormwater & Green Infrastructure, Water Quality
Point and Nonpoint Source Pollution You may have heard the terms point and nonpoint source pollution. To demystify these terms a bit, a point source is a known source of pollutants, such as a factory or a sewer treatment plant. Nonpoint sources are everything else:...
by Maria Brodine | Feb 14, 2017 | combined-sewer-overflows, General Resources, Network Blog, Outreach & Education, Water Quality
How much waste do you produce in a single day? To find out, all you need is a kitchen scale. Over a period of seven days, weigh your garbage and keep a record. How much trash do you, as an individual, produce each week? What about your whole family? What percentage of...
