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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Clean Spirited is excited to introduce our July charity of the month, American Rivers.  American Rivers is the leading organization working to protect and restore the nation’s rivers and streams.   Since 1973, American Rivers has fought to preserve, protect and restore more than 150,000 miles of rivers through advocacy efforts, on-the-ground projects, and the [...]

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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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Clean Spirited would like to introduce our June 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 were dead [...]

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Time to break out the tank tops and flip flops!  Summer is right around the corner.  Hopefully a lot of your time will be spent outdoors enjoying nature; thus allowing you to appreciate the benefits of a healthy planet. Try some of these green tips while you’re enjoying the warmer weather!
Propane or Charcoal?
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LA becomes the largest city in the nation to put a ban on plastic bags at supermarkets!  The City Council voted 13-1 to phase out plastic bags over the next 16 months at an estimated 7,500 stores.  This means shoppers will need to bring reusable bags or purchase paper bags for 10 cents each.  The [...]

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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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Long, hot summer days bring hours of opportunity to relax and unwind. While reading books, catching up on television or getting a suntan sound like fun, technological advances are moving at light speed. Educators particularly benefit from making time to stay engaged in technology. They have an unprecedented opportunity to be a resource for new [...]

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Clean Spirited is pleased to introduce our May charity of the month, Endangered Species International.  Endangered Species International is addressing the real and urgent species extinction needs. More than 16,000 species are threatened to become extinct in the near future. They focus on species that have the biggest chance of becoming extinct including those [...]

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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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