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The “Clean Up the River” event is part of “Clean Up the World”, a community based campaign for worldwide communities to clean, fix and conserve their environment. Now in its 24th year the campaign is held in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), with an estimated 35 million volunteers from 130 countries, making it one of the largest community-based environmental campaigns ever. “World Ozone Day” is held annually to commemorate the 1987 signing of the “Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer”, which created awareness on climate change and ozone depletion.
In 2017 Bangkok River Partners and its partner hotels worked with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, foreign embassies’ Eco-Capital Forum, local businesses and community groups to remove rubbish from their locales which might feed into the Chao Phraya River and the Gulf of Thailand’s beaches. On the day the Chatrium group and V.I.P. guests boarded boats organiz
Developer Blaine East shared new details about his ambitious plan for Little River Resort with the Carthage Board of Commissioners on Wednesday.
The Apex businessman has spearheaded several commercial projects in Moore County over the years, including the Southern Pines shopping center currently anchored by Kohlâs on Brucewood Road. East told the commissioners that Little River, which he and his associates bought in March, will be one of his largest ventures to date.
âIâm going to leave this as my legacy,â he said.
A medical complex, shopping plaza, winery and celebrity chef-affiliated restaurant are among the attractions East hopes to place on the 585-acre property. Parts of the concept are similar to a mixed-use development that East pitched to Pinehurst leaders in 2014 â a project that never materialized.
In one of the biggest mobilizations of resources and talent ever organized to save an insect, the state of California is teaming with conservation groups, biologists and scores of citizen scientists to rescue the western monarch butterfly from the brink of extinction. To do this, they are placing their hopes on an unassuming, poisonous plant called milkweed. Monarch butterflies, known for their distinctive orange and black pattern, once flocked.