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Firestone
Quicksilver
Exxon/Mobil
Plastic Spoon
Storm Drain Dumps its Load
Linden Beach
Salem Harbor Coal-Fired Power Plant
Seal Hauls Out on the Ice of Salem Sound
Ice in Salem Sound
Why I'm not at COP15 in Copenhagen
Bridge over Chelsea Creek
Heading out on the first swim/snow day of the year
Chelsea Creek
Oreos
McDonalds
Fresh Seafood
Beverly-Salem Bridge
Boston Harbor
Flagship Adventures Crew plus Susan Ogan and Emily Peugh
Sewage Slick
Football
DUX Escort Boat First Day in the water.
Home Depot
Cape Pond Ice Company
Tropicana
Pepperidge Farm
Crocs
Every Day Sea Turtles Mistake Floating Plastic Bags for Food
Trash In Gloucester Harbor
How it Looks When I Get Hit By a Wave
Photo: Christopher Swain
Christopher Swain
Christopher off Children's Island
The Story of My Life
Drainage Pipe at Grace Oliver's Cove, Marblehead, MA. Photo: Christopher Swain
Flagpole Meeting at Children's Island
Show and Tell at Children's Island
Rhod Sharp of BBC Radio interviewing Christopher Swain at Children's Island
Children's Island Triangle Swim
Photo: Christopher Swain
Swim day supplies and equipment
Algae bloom in tidepool contaminated with animal waste
Beer Cans--the key to a healthy marine ecosystem
Lobster Trap
Cranes for Unloading Freight, Boston Harbor
Boston Light, Little Brewster Island, Outer Boston Harbor
Fuel Slick in Marblehead Harbor
Forest River Salt Marsh
Floating Clump of Aquatic Plants
Boston Skyline at Dusk
Seaweed
Swimming past kelp forests
Turning of the tide
Foam
What I see when I look down through my goggles
Rosa Rugosa
Container Ship Heads Out of Boston
Breaststroking out of Boston Harbor
Swain Dives off the Dock!
Global Warming is Real
Cause Areas: Energy: Alternative, Fossil, Solar; Environment: Global Warming, Land
14,294 Story Views
2 Action Requests
Promoting LGBT Equality Through Service Events
Cause Area: Tolerance: Gay Rights; Human Rights; Civil Rights; Tolerance; Homelessness; Poverty
1,026 Story Views
1 Action Request
A (BIO)tiful World
Cause Areas: Environment: Air, Conservation, Endangered; Energy: Alternative; Corporate Responsibility: Ethical Companies, Fair Sourcing; An open (green) eye on our Planet!
7,073 Story Views
3 Action Requests
Where's My Revolutionary Spirit? → a new documentary web series about taking action & creating change!
Cause Area: Education: Access; Art & Social Change
414 Story Views
Lending a hand to self sufficiency and impacting the global water crisis, one project at a time.
Cause Areas: Human Rights: Poverty; Environment: Water
685 Story Views
Transform Yourself, Transform the World!
Cause Area: Education; Humane Education and MOGO Living
2,371 Story Views
Exploring America's Sustainable Food Landscape
Cause Area: Environment; sustainable food
22,548 Story Views
2 Action Requests
Did you know that LIFE is a dream and a vision, to be explained by STORIES?
Cause Area: Education; SpokenStories.Org has one short-term goal, one mid-term plan and one lifelong mission: to help Maximize Human Capabilities through Stories, Poems and other human-uplifting arts.
976 Story Views
Presenting mathematics as cool, fun, non-intimidating and hip. Math that can improve your well-being and help save our planet.
Cause Areas: Education; Environment
3,146 Story Views
3 Action Requests
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Christopher Swain Swimming Again
Hey Folks, Good news: I am spending a lot more time in the water this summer than last. Although I am about 13 field reports behind, I have been tearing up the New Hampshire and Massachusetts coastlines with my old crew chief from the Columbia and Hudson Rivers, Chris Runyard. How can you follow the swim when I am not k... Continue reading Swimming Again
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Jen_Changents
July 12, 2010 - 9:43am
July 12, 2010 - 9:43am
Glad to hear you're back in the water! This summer has been super hot and I bet the water is feeling good :)
Jen_Changents
July 12, 2010 - 9:43am
July 12, 2010 - 9:43am
Glad to hear you're back in the water! This summer has been super hot and I bet the water is feeling good :)
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Christopher's organization
- www.swimforahealthyworld.org
- Creating a healthy ocean planet through education.
Fast Facts
- Planet Saver
- Marblehead, MA United States
- Posted: Mar 19, 2009
- Last Updated: Jul 20, 2010
- Focus Areas: Environment: Conservation, Endangered, Global Warming, Water
- Website: www.swimforahealthyworld.org
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