Groundwater Blog

Friday, October 14, 2011

What is your community doing?

By Brian Reetz, Program Coordinator

During our national conference last week in Omaha, I was lucky to present to the group with the former mayor of Wayne, Nebraska, Lois Shelton.

I first met Lois at a League of Municipalities meeting a couple of years ago. I thought Wayne would be a great fit with our Let’s Keep it Clean program that we were just starting as they were just forming a Green Team in the community.

I think our growth of the program and the growth of the Green Team has been a key to seeing sustainability. Our work helped them see some possibilities that could be done. Their passion to do it in their community helped us know it would be successful. From forming a Groundwater Guardian team to establishing Green Sites in the community as well as community events and programs with youth, Wayne is doing its part to make the community and groundwater sustainable.

What are you and your community doing today to make groundwater sustainable for future generations?

Friday, September 30, 2011

Shall we Tweet?

Do you tweet? Just a year or so ago, people would have given you a very disconcerting look if you posed that question that to them. Now it’s all the rage!

Just a year ago, Twitter delivered 65 million Tweets a day. Now that number of tweets is over 200 million a day. More than half of the 100 million active users log in each day to see what is going on in the world.

So with that in mind, we (@groundwaterfdn) will be tweeting from our national conference next week. So if you aren’t on Twitter yet, get signed up today. We will be sharing information from the different presentations that take place.

You don’t need to tweet yourself, just follow us or follow the hashtag (a hashtag is used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet and keeps you organized) #GWF11 by doing a search.

Share this with your friends and followers too and the tweeting will travel across the globe as nearly 70 percent of the tweets written are from outside of the United States.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Pollution Prevention Week

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The old adage rings true, especially during Pollution Prevention Week!

In recognition, the U.S. EPA has launched a new tool to help consumers make greener choices in selecting products, from cleaners to appliances to automobiles.

The Greener Products portal, online at http://www.epa.gov/greenerproducts/, links users to various EPA programs and information about how each of us can make green choices.

Learn more about Pollution Prevention week at http://www.epa.gov/p2week/ and find tips on how you can help make pollution prevention an integral part of your life.