Marine Conservation Institute,  is our June charity of the month, works for our oceans:   maintaining and recovering bountiful, diverse and healthy oceans now and for generations to come,   knowing  that healthy marine ecosystems are essential for human survival, wealth and well-being. Because the oceans are the Earth’s biggest life support system, everyone has a big [...]

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Living Lands and Waters, our Charity of the Month, tackles ecology at the local level and invites participation. They feel that environmental stewardship is everyone’s responsibility – whether it’s something as simple as shutting off the water when you brush your teeth, or rolling up your sleeves to join them on a river cleanup – and [...]

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For most people, access to an abundance of fresh, clean water is a given. Whether it’s filtered from the refrigerator or sold in a bottle, we all have it at our fingertips, and we rarely think about the possibility of running out of this essential resource. However, nearly one billion people in the world live without [...]

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World Environment Day is an annual event that aims to be the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. World Environment Day activities take place all year round but culminates on June 5 every year, involving everyone across the planet.
World Environment Day began in 1972 and has grown to become one [...]

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Heal the Bay, Clean Spirited’s July 2011 charity of the month, has been leading the fight to end the financial and environmental waste created by single-use shopping bags for the past five years throughout Los Angeles.  L.A.’s delay in banning single-use, carry-out plastic bags has put it behind dozens of other cities in the state. [...]

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Researchers from the Universities of Washington and Delaware and the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass., say pollution in our oceans is a much bigger and scarier problem than we thought. They say scientists have only skimmed the surface on the devastating pollution caused by plastic debris in the ocean, and the research community is [...]

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Clean Spirited is very pleased to announce our January charity of the month, Save Our Beach.  Save Our Beach is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving the water quality along the Southern California coastline. It was founded by Steve & Kim Masoner in 1999.  The began Save Our Beach because they live along the ocean (it’s [...]

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Clean Spirited wants you to get inspired by Mother Earth…and WIN a $200 shopping extravaganza!  Enter our Eco Poetry Contest and win! It’s easy!  We are all inspired by the Earth every day, whether it’s enjoying the setting sun or taking the time out to recycle.  Put these inspirations down in verse. Then, encourage your [...]

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Clean Spirited would like to introduce our July charity of the month, Heal the Bay. Heal the Bay  was founded in 1985 to stop the dumping of raw sewage into the Santa Monica Bay.  The bay was in a terrible state. Swimmers and surfers were contracting strange rashes along with frequent respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. There [...]

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On April 20, 2010, the biggest oil spill in U.S. history occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.  One year later, oil from this disaster still clogs wetlands, pollutes the ocean and endangers wildlife.  We cannot forget about the toll it took on the coastal economies of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and especially Louisiana.  This disaster killed [...]

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