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Meet Harrison Frith
Meet Harrison Frith! A college freshman and environmental activist who spearheaded the Bird Box project during his senior year of high school in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Preparing to build bird boxes for the Bluebird and the Barn Owl, Wholly H2O’s planned event kept getting postponed further and further. As Wholly H2O’s bird box building project seemed more and more impossible with limited contact and stricter restrictions in place, Harrison swooped [...]
Who’s Living in your Waterhood?
Recently, I put a query out on a citizen science email list. “Who is doing watershed-related citizen science?” While I am indeed writing a separate blog on this topic, it was a trick question of sorts because the truth is that wherever you are, you’re in a watershed of some scale and whatever you’re doing, you are impacting that watershed (and likely several other) at any given moment. But we’ve all become so [...]
Beyond the Drought: Water Conservation Consciousness for the Long Term
In California, the 2011-2017 drought had some stunning silver linings, notably a more acute personal awareness of water use. The impacts of drought and climate change yielded scarce water flows and depleted groundwater supplies that focused people’s attention on cutting back on water use. People were themselves experiencing unusual heat, seeing the […]
Silver Linings to the California Drought: New Cultural Norms of Engagement
Even the severe California drought has its silver linings. It has taken extreme conditions at the weather helm to focus Californians on our unsustainable use of water. For those of us who have been pushing water conservation and reuse for years, the drought is the motivator we have been seeking, raising issues of water use in […]
Silver Linings of the Drought: Shifts in California Water Culture
Photo by Mike King Even the severe California drought has its silver linings. It has taken extreme conditions at the weather helm to focus Californians’ on our unsustainable use of water. For those of us who have been pushing water conservation and reuse for years, the drought is the motivator we have been seeking, raising issues […]
What River Are You Made Of? Call for Art and Artful Science Exhibits
To reach the hearts of the public, Wholly H2O has hit the streets, art galleries, and taps around the Bay Area and in the upper watershed regions of California. By launching two intertwined campaings, “Standing with the Watershed Campaign and What’s On Tap? Campaign, Wholly H2O is writing the names of some rivers on bathroom and art gallery […]