Photo Essay: Paddler Turned Volunteer

Photo Essay: Paddler Turned Volunteer

Raise your glass to Rebecca: avid paddler, River Center volunteer, and donor!

Just think. The Potomac would be restored with swimmable and fishable waters much sooner if the river had more friends like Rebecca. Hear from her directly and learn what drove her to get involved in the fight for clean water.

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Empowering a Local Movement for Clean Water

Empowering a Local Movement for Clean Water

As a supporter of the Potomac River, you are part of a growing movement of over 17,000 people that is fighting for clean water protections to keep pollution out of our local streams and rivers.

Read a special message from Potomac Conservancy's leadership and learn how you are making a difference for healthy lands and clean streams in your community.

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Welcome Your Newest Clean Water Advocate, Alicia!

Welcome Your Newest Clean Water Advocate, Alicia!

Joining our team in March 2015 as our Communications Associate, Alicia shares clean water news and successes on the Conservancy's River News blog, Facebook, and Twitter

Alicia's deep commitment to improving local water quality stems from her childhood summers spent along the Susquehanna River. Read in her own words why she's fighting to save her new hometown river, the Potomac!

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A Return to the River

A Return to the River

With the fast-paced nature of today's working world, it's easy to convince ourselves that our passion for the outdoors was a luxury of the past, when childhood summers were filled with playful adventures in forests, fields, beaches and creeks.

Take a journey with Casey as she relives her childhood memories on the Chesapeake and discovers new meaning of our local lands and waters at Maryland's Piscataway Park.

Casey is the Volunteer and Membership Coordinator at the Accokeek Foundation.

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Some Businesses Start in a Garage, Others in a Bus

Some Businesses Start in a Garage, Others in a Bus

Starting out of a bus in 1978, learn how Ecoprint emerged from one person's passion as an environmental activist.

Guest blogger and Potomac Conservancy member, Roger Telschow, is President and Founder of Ecoprint, a sustainable printing and mailing business located in Silver Spring, Maryland. Learn more about Roger's story after the jump!

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