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Activating the Building Blocks of Sustainability
One thing I’ve learned through my work with local communities is that they love celebrating what makes them unique. I love learning what they are most proud of and helping them turn their greatest assets into actions that matter for their community.
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Urban Golf and the Partnerships for Progress
In many ways golf is more than just a game. There’s a special place, right down the street from our Region 3 office in Center City Philadelphia, that is reimaging how kids can experience greenspaces.
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For Local Communities, the Sky is the Limit
Local Foods, Local Places' community-driven approach unleashes local creative minds to envision innovative paths to overcome the complex legacies of social and environmental problems and inequities.
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From Peace Corps to EPA
Meet some returned Peace Corps Volunteers who now work at EPA.
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A Silver Anniversary for the Gold Standard in Children's Environmental Health Protection
An overview of the work of PEHSUs, a network of pediatricians, nurses, health educators and other health professionals with special expertise in the prevention, diagnosis, management, and treatment of health issues that arise from environmental exposures.
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How Community-Led Change is Helping Rural Places and People Thrive
Steph Bertaina provides a personal introduction to the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities program.
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Glacier on the Job and in the Air: My Experiences Living and Working with a Service Animal
While incorporating my service dog into my daily life has been tricky, it’s also been life changing.
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Proud Hispanic Public Servant: Showcasing my Strengths
I’m very proud to represent my roots as a Hispanic, my community, and the EPA.
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Inspiring Students to Tackle Environmental Challenges
Each change in habit, no matter how small, can make an impact. I wanted to make sure that our visit left an impression and helped encourage lasting change in the Earth’s youngest environmentalists.
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Lifting Up and Phasing Down: A Service to America Medal Recipient’s Story
The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal is a wonderful way to acknowledge the hard work that federal employees do, day in and day out, and highlight some of our critical actions.
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Follow the Data to Answer Questions about the Environment
My love for using data to answer important questions is shared by researchers across the country and all around the world – answering any question you can think of about the environment.