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  • About
    • Brief Bio
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Category: river/waterway health

Many streams and rivers are rebounding after humans treated them as sewers for decades. Signs of life are abundant and multi-layered.

Posted on January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 awareness e-cology river/waterway health Uncategorized

A Brush with Conservation: Artists draw on storm drains to protect the Anacostia River

WASHINGTON—The Anacostia Watershed Society asked local artists to go wild in D.C. neighborhoods. So they did. Literally. And the results are impressive, colorful and yes,...

Posted on November 1, 2017November 14, 2017 e-cology environmental heroes plastic trash river/waterway health

The Last Straw? D.C. greens target single-use plastic in bars, restaurants

WASHINGTON—Viewing a video of scientists extracting a plastic drinking straw lodged in the nostril of an olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica broke Emily...

Posted on October 17, 2017November 14, 2017 e-cology environmental protection agency river/waterway health

Water crisis prompts Michigan coffee roaster to pour funds into Flint

PITTSBURGH—Fireside Coffee Co. in Swartz Creek, Mich., is no big bean box store. In fact, community is at the center of the artisan coffee roaster’s...

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E-cology Reports

Book cover Greetings Readers, February 10, 2021 by Elizabeth McGowan - Elizabeth McGowan here. Please click to my author website to learn about my journey to publishing Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America. You can sign up for my NEW newsletter about riding and writing, and also invite me to be a speaker for your book group, cancer support group or other cherished institution.… Read more >
Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >