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Writing To Be Read #1: Learning from Journalists

July 31, 2007

Blogger’s Note: Some of the most thoughtful comments and emails I have received since launching this blog have come from Ellie Ely, who has many years experience transforming scientific jargon [...]

Clean Ocean Action Shows You Making a Difference

July 30, 2007

Here’s the third excerpt from Clean Ocean Action’s “Giving Ocean” film that I like so much. In this bit, the group shows the viewer what they can do, makes them [...]

Reader Question: Can’t We Teach Them Our Vocabulary?

July 30, 2007

Yet another question popped into my in-box last week, this time about vocabulary on an interpretive sign: “A member of the watershed group I’m doing this project for thinks we [...]

Groundwater: A Word That Works, or Not?

July 25, 2007

Here’s a reader question that landed in my in-box this week: “Is ‘ground water’ is a good term to use or should I should find a substitute?” It’s a great [...]

Save the Great Lakes with Words and Pictures

July 25, 2007

The Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition are running a photo and writing contest about life along the Great Lakes. The prizes are monthly, so you have more than [...]

Thumbs Up: Clean Ocean Action on Polluted Runoff

July 19, 2007

Here’s a second excerpt from Clean Ocean Action’s membership recruitment video, The Giving Ocean. It’s perhaps the most motivating description of polluted runoff that I have ever seen. The shot [...]

Thumbs Down: Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper on Polluted Runoff

July 19, 2007

The Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper is rightly concerned about polluted runoff from construction sites, but the keeper’s web video on the topic Mud in the Run, is going to leave a [...]

Fun: Ron White’s Salt River Adventure

July 17, 2007

My wife and I are spending the week in Reno, NV, with her dad who is pretty sick. On Saturday, we took him to see standup comedian Ron White, best [...]