Category: People Stories
It doesn’t require a hero to do something heroic! There is great merit even in small acts of water-mindfulness — because of the acts themselves and because of the kind of people it makes us. —H2O IQ editor
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Naka Nathaniel: Big Plastic Has Left The Next Generation With A Big Problem
Naka Nathaniel spent much of his career as a journalist with The New York Times, helping launch NYTimes.com, covering war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the collapse of the second tower on 9/11. He lives in Waimea on the Big Island. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views. You…
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Seaweed farms & historic deal to protect the seas
Photo: Julie Robinson is the director of the Nature Conservancy’s Belize Program in Punta Gorda, Belize. Credit: Meridith Kohut In Belize, seaweed is a lifeline. In this picture, I’m holding a chunk of Eucheuma isiforme, a seaweed harvested from an underwater farm in the Turneffe Atoll, about 40 kilometres off the coast. As a little…
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Pennsylvania winery delivers water to help save sick horses in East Palestine
Photo: The Murphy family says since the train derailment, their animals have been sick. EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — While the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says no animals or wildlife have died since the train derailment, residents who live in East Palestine tell 10TV they are concerned for their health and for their pets. The Murphy…
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A trash source success: parking lot on St. Augustine Road, Valdosta
Photos: parking lot; Hightower Creek Valdosta, GA, October 7, 2021 — Other businesses can do what Stafford did, and our creeks and rivers will be a lot cleaner! That will make Valdosta, Lowndes County, and every place downstream, more attractive to new and existing businesses, and healthier for people who live here. After many times…
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From sewage to oasis: Female duo create Johannesburg green corridor
Merging art, science and activism, two women are on a mission to save one of the city’s biggest and most polluted rivers By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG, Feb 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) A river filled with sewage, broken TVs, dead dogs and used needles or a clean, bird-luring oasis lined with indigenous plants? Most people could…
