Reviving Valentine Street in East St. Louis, Illinois

Growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s on Valentine Street in East St. Louis, Lillie Marable-Douglas and her siblings learned to ride bikes, mastered skating on the sidewalks, played stick-ball in the streets and swung on swings made from tires. “It was just a time of a lot of fun,” she says.

Saving Alaska’s Transboundary Waters

By Amelia Arvesen As featured on Osprey’s blog. . As mining companies descend upon Northwest British Columbia, Indigenous people in Southeast Alaska grow uneasy. Any toxic waste deposited into the transboundary rivers as a result of operations flows downstream to them, impacting their food security and way of life. After all, water doesn’t stop flowing…

A Community-Based Effort to Protect the Black River

Rivers connect us. They bring people together along waters that flow from one community to the next. They provide a connection to nature through wildlife viewing and outdoor recreation. And they provide habitat for a diversity of species that create thriving ecosystems. We’re excited to see the Black River watershed and its inhabitants experience all…