WATER, FLOWERS, AND LIFE
This Water a Flower Day has me reflecting on how lucky I am that my husband has an incredibly green thumb. I can grow food and, in fairness, those plants flower, too. However, the beautiful explosion of colors in our yard all year long must be completely credited to my better half.
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The Murky World of Subsistence Fishing in the San Francisco Bay
It's 11 am on Sunday April 17 on a wooden pier near the ferry building in downtown San Francisco, and the sun is streaming down on an 80-degree weekend. There aren't many locals around. A teenage couple hold hands on a bench giggling over something on the young man's iPhone, and a family of four
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Just Transition For Coal Communities
From the beginning of my internship here at Clean Water Action (CWA) talk has circulated throughout the office about the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, MA, and the revolution that can begin at this site. From just the topic itself I was already interested in not only learning more about the
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Turn the Tide on Plastic Pollution — Take the Bag Ban Pledge!
I've been snorkeling all my life, and a few years ago I realized a life-long dream and became certified SCUBA diver. I don't recall ever seeing plastic in the ocean as a kid, and only recall an occasional bag or errant piece of fishing gear in the water when I was a young adult. Then a few years ago
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Zero Waste Municipal Leaders Summit
On April 4, during a surprise Spring snowstorm, the City of Boston and the Boston Recycling Coalition joined forces to host our first-ever Zero Waste Municipal Leaders Summit. Despite the weather, the room was abuzz with anticipation at the newly opened Bolling Building in Roxbury's Dudley Square: a
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Oil Trains and Orioles Don't Mix
This 100+-year-old tunnel runs 1.4 miles from Howard Street to Mt Royal Ave, surfacing between the campuses of the University of Baltimore and MICA. And for the past five years, trains carrying crude oil from North Dakota have been passing through the tunnel on their way to refineries and export terminals in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. This puts hundreds of thousands of Baltimore residents in danger on their way.
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What’s So Great About Oakland, California? (Apart From Everything, Obviously).
Clean Water’s California office is located right in the heart of downtown Oakland—a city that even green-minded Europeans are talking about as a center for reducing carbon emissions associated with commerce. For 21 years, the City of Oakland has organized an annual earth expo in Frank Ogawa Plaza
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We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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