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OCEAN RIVER INSTITUTE INC
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October 21, 2010
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I wrote a letter to the Boston Globe after reading ORI's report about that paper's nod to the plan to pave a section of the Chelsea Creek rather than reclaim it as viable salt marsh. I live on a coastal marsh near New Haven, CT which is able to co-exist with our big port city commerce, but it takes community push-back and vigilance to keep the balance steady. Water resources tie us all together. ORI's outreach via email was what alerted me to the Boston issue and it's grassroots communication like this that can help marshall the voices to oppose powers that would always prefer to "pave paradise".
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I wouldn't.
August 6, 2010
Thank you ORI for bringing attention to our ocean and water systems! They are badly neglected and we are destroying them at an alarming rate. More attention must be paid to our most precious resource after air: water.
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I have been moved by the stories they tell about what is going on with our oceans politically and scientifically.
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About every month
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2010
July 2, 2010
RE: ORI “ You seem to need a lot of reassurance. You should know by now that you are all awesome!!! Thank you for caring so deeply about all these important health, safety and environmental issues!”
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Making me aware of some of the World's important issues, especially in regard to the environment, and also keeping me informed of their success in achieving their goals.
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Re: ORI “ You seem to need a lot of reassurance. You should know by now that you are all awesome!!! Thank you for caring so deeply about all these important health, safety and environmental issues!”
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About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
June 24, 2010
In a time when we are fighting for our environment, on both the land and the sea, it is good to know that our waters have advocates like you. We have to develope our own "special interest groups" to protect, renew, and help sustain our precious waters. They have sustained us for eons. You are a very special group of people, who stand up with integrity and take on those special interests who have proven themselves souless, and will destroy indescriminantly for profit while many of our leaders look the other way. Please do not allow anything to stop you from carrying on this work. We need you.
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Reading of the battles and the victories of your organization, as well as the saga of the day to day, on-going work needed to sustain the momentum. It is inspiring, and an incentive to keep going with my on efforts.
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About every week
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2010
May 18, 2010
ORI has successfully mounted campaigns to protect the rivers, marshes and bays in the locales that I care about. I work seasonally in both the US Virgin Islands and on Cape Cod, where water quality and its affect on the environment are constant concerns. In the 20-something years I've lived on St John I've seen environmental consciousness slowly rising as run-off and pollution accelerates. And in my 40 years of life on Cape Cod, I've seen the ecology learning-curve rise sharply, but perhaps too late. ORI addresses local issues, like mine, and brings my concerns, including the illegal dumping of ocean dredged materials and dumping of demolition debris, to a much larger audience. It helps me to stay at it when our local concerns are shared by people living far away. I am glad to know ORI is there and to be networked with so many other concerned citizens.
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ORI always responds promptly to my communications.
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About every week
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2010
May 7, 2010
The Ocean River Institute listens locally and then assists local groups or addresses local environmental/wildlife challenge by networking through the internet. I learned that the British Virgin Islands, which I had visited many years ago, was being threatened by three of the world's largest developers. They were told by BVI government that they could disregard all environmental regulations to expedite building. I was heartened to learn that Islanders had rallied, created the Virgin Island Environmental Council (VIEC) and stood up to the largest developers in the world to protect the last remnants of wildness. The London-based barristers agreed to work probono, but needed their travel expenses paid. For not a whole lot of money I was able enable VIEC to have the legal defense they deserved, and stop developers from buying their way to ecological destruction. Winning in Court has established the VIEC as the environmental conscience that developers would be wise to consult to be sure that natural treasures are not destroyed. ORI let me be a big fish in a small pond and perhaps leave a lasting legacy. Thanks to weekly ORI eAlerts I can keep informed of new challenges and opportunities to make a difference, events and letter writing campaigns. Most often a small donation is all ORI needs, small donations made by many quickly.
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helping to protect environments and save wildlife by seeing my own written remarks delivered with others to national decision-makers.
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being part of vast network of environmentally concerned individuals and of grassroots groups working on issues in their neighborhoods.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Staff and volunteers really enjoy what they we do. The quality of individuals I met in the British Virgin Island, the relationship built are more fullfilling than are the incremental, never ending, environmental work.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
assist a great number of grassroots, place-based groups who are currently struggling to do much with little-a fund to overcome episodic setbacks and opportunities.
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About every week
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
May 12, 2010
Ocean River Institute Inc. is a small but powerful organization that I have come to respect a great deal. Their work extends to a variety of issues, dealing with every size waterway; literally, no watersource is too big or too small for their attention. Their work becomes even more important in the wake of a disaster like the current Gulf oil spill and its impact on the environment and wildlife affected. ORI works directly with communities and small groups, rather than being a huge, impersonal organizational machine, so a relationship between people and nature is always forged. This, in turn, fosters respect for the environment and a working partnership. That is essential to caring responsibly for the planet.
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Several campaigns that I have written letter for.
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About every month
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2010
May 1, 2010
Ocean River has done so many wonderful enviromental things to help out. Their work in protecting Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat was very effective!
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the Russell, MA EPA hearings.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
The kind and friendly way that they do what they do.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
really help the wolrd
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About every six months
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
April 30, 2010
ORI is a wonderful, wonderful hands on, grass roots level community organinzing ecological positive action agency. I am so very grateful for the work they have done to help preserve the beauty and health of the Westfield River (which is one that my fmaily and I have lived near or kayaked on many many times). In partcular their work to help the spawining salmon is outstanding. Frankly, their campaigns are all well-chosen adn meritorious, and they keep you posted.
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If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
restore America's rivers to great health, natural utility and pristine beauty, and be a catlyst to help the world do the same.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every month
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
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