Earth Day began in 1970 as a response to an oil spill. The idea was to push more people to think about the problems that were plaguing the country’s air and water as a way of making people care about solving them. These days, Earth…
In 2010 the City of Spokane constructed a plant-based stormwater system on Lincoln St. to help prevent polluted runoff from making it to the Spokane River. The Spokane Urban Runoff Greenways Ecosystem or SURGE project captures, treats and infiltrates runoff and is an essential component…