Grist Comment Feed en http://www.grist.org/article/national-river-heroes-announced/ Fri, 29 May 2009 05:39:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/national-river-heroes-announced/1 Protecting our waterways is vitally important.  I was thrilled to head about your National River Heros who are out there making a difference for future generations.  It is time for everyone to make the time to change our ways if we expect to have clean waterways forever.  I have recently read about Christopher Swain who is currently swimming on the Atlantic Ocean from Marblehead MA to Washington DC stopping a schools along the way to promote clean water and the safety of the ocean habitat.  Previously he swam  the Hudson, Charles, and Columbia Rivers "in order to put problems facing our water planet squarely in the public eye." Check him out: www.changents.com/earthkeepers  

]]> Protecting our waterways is vitally important.  I was thrilled to head about your National River Heros who are out there making a difference for future generations.  It is time for everyone to make the time to change our ways if we expect to have clean waterways forever.  I have recently read about Christopher Swain who is currently swimming on the Atlantic Ocean from Marblehead MA to Washington DC stopping a schools along the way to promote clean water and the safety of the ocean habitat.  Previously he swam  the Hudson, Charles, and Columbia Rivers "in order to put problems facing our water planet squarely in the public eye." Check him out: www.changents.com/earthkeepers  

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