by Renee Mazurek | Oct 26, 2022 | Network Blog
Aracelli Eikenberry-Mancilla Program Assistant Plaster Creek Stewards Founded in 2009 by Gail Heffner and Dave Warners (2019 UWLN Signature Award Winners), the Plaster Creek Stewards (PCS) form a collaboration of Calvin University faculty, staff, and...
by Renee Mazurek | Apr 18, 2022 | Network Blog
Brenda Brinkhous-Hatch Green Team Program Coordinator Groundwork Northeast Revitalization Group Brenda Brinkhous-Hatch has been planning and facilitating youth development opportunities throughout her career and continues on that path in her current...
by Renee Mazurek | Jan 27, 2022 | Network Blog
Paulina López Executive Director Duwamish River Community Coalition Paulina López is a volunteer, organizer, advocate, and mother of three boys. Originally from Ecuador, she has made Seattle her home for 19 years. Presently, she is the Executive...
by Maria Brodine | Nov 18, 2020 | Network Blog
For those of us who love maps and data, the USGS has recently published a new National Water Dashboard. “This viewer shows provisional real-time water data collected at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) observation stations in context with weather-related data...
by Renee Mazurek | May 5, 2020 | Network Blog
Cover photo from Heal the Bay water quality monitoring program. This post is also available on the River Network website blog. We at the Urban Waters Learning Network (UWLN) and River Network know that many of our members who do water quality monitoring have questions...
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 | Jul 20, 2017 | General Resources, Network Blog
One Water Summit 2017 On June 27-29, I attended the 2017 One Water Summit in New Orleans, LA. Like River Rally, the Summit is held every year in a different water city. Local projects and partnerships are highlighted throughout the conference, from a series of outdoor...
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...
by freshysites | Nov 17, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Greenways/Blueways & Riverbank Restoration, Network Blog, Outreach & Education, Superfund sites, Water Quality
What does it mean when Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group (DRCC/TAG) says that our work is driven and guided by community? This could just mean that we look at some neighborhood plans or host a public comment meeting to determine if the path we...
by freshysites | Apr 6, 2016 | General Resources, Network Blog
It really was a “Watershed Awakening”…the growing awareness and eventual decision made by Calvin College to turn its attention to Plaster Creek, the impaired creek that drains the watershed in which the college is situated in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Back in 2002,...
