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How Loggerhead Marinelife Center is Raising Funds to Save Sea Turtles

DipJar

Because LMC is a free admission facility, the Center heavily depends on donations to fuel its conservation efforts. These funds help provide critical care and treatment for the Center’s sea turtle patients, as well as fund the conservation efforts of LMC’s four core pillars of conservation.

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#OceanLoveEarl Share Your Favorite Ocean Story on July 3rd for My Dad’s Online Memorial

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tweet or Facebook your favorite story about the ocean or share an ocean conservation link with #oceanLoveEarl hashtag. My father had a deep-seated love of the ocean and was a life guard for 30 years for the Ventnor City Beach Patrol. This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. When she ran the Nature Conservancy in Louisiana, 200,000 acres were set aside. In August of 2005, she had barely begun getting things in order when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck. It as a lucky thing they did.

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I shed a single happy tear for the big boat

The Verge

I live in New York, a city on the water, but I hardly feel the impacts of living on the fringes of maritime culture unless I’m at one of the parks that overlook the harbors or there’s a disaster, like Hurricane Sandy. Your heart rate slows down, for one, and your body conserves its oxygen. There is an undeniable mystique to water.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. Another option, is to sponsor a woman who wants to make a better life some place in the world. April: We celebrate Earth Day this month. Britt Bravo recommends Women for Women International.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

That may not sound like much, but a 5-degree rise will affect almost every aspect of human life, in ways both large and small. What will life be like in this much warmer world? Air-conditioning will be a literal life-saver, and the number of people with air-conditioning will increase dramatically.

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

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If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Make these changes in your own life to hugely reduce your carbon footprint and show that we will not sit back and watch our planet go to waste.

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