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A Sustainable Wedding is a Memorable Wedding

December 19, 2024 | By Avonna Starck

"About a year ago, my partner of 24 years proposed. From the start, I wanted our values to guide the planning, and I became obsessed with achieving a zero-waste wedding. Along the way, I found creative ways to save time, money, and reduce waste..."

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Oil Trains and Orioles Don't Mix

April 8, 2016 | By Jennifer Kunze

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.

Tunnel entrance - Baltimore. Photo Credit Jennifer Kunze / Clean Water Action

The author (left) and Waste Prevention Program Associate Dara Rossoff Powell (right), tabling on Wednesday, April 6 at the City of Oakland’s Earth Expo event, downtown.

What’s So Great About Oakland, California? (Apart From Everything, Obviously).

April 8, 2016 | By Chris Slafter

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

Sustainable Groundwater Management in California Depends on You!

July 30, 2015 | By Jennifer Clary

Clean Water Fund, in partnership the Union of Concerned Scientists and Community Water Center has released its first guide to California groundwater planning. Collaborating for Success follows the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), and provides a roadmap for local agencies to ensure that communities, environmental advocates, tribes and other stakeholders are effectively engaged in local groundwater management efforts.