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Launched on Earth Day 2017, a local initiative created the Northern Neck Green website to share resources for maintaining a natural paradise.
Because of that, a host of Northern Neck-based organizations, from the local chapter of the Audubon Society to the Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association to the Menokin Foundation, see environmental stewardship and education of the public as part of their mission.
Launched on Earth Day 2017, a local initiative created the Northern Neck Green website (www.nnkgreen.org) to share resources for maintaining a natural paradise. The goal was to create an accessible place for all things related to living more sustainably.
As residents and visitors alike know, the Northern Neck peninsula is uniquely valuable for its relatively undisturbed landscape, its working waterfront, expansive farm and forest lands and its cultural and historical distinctiveness.
The website was an outgrowth of the Northern NeckConsortium for Environmental Stewardship (NNCES), which connects the nearly 30 organizations involved, the better to share programs, events, activities and educational aspects of their organizations as they relate to environmental protection.
“The fundamental mission of NNCES is to educate residents of the Northern Neck and its visitors about the best ways to sustain the natural features that contribute so much to our way of life here,” said Bobbie Burton, chair of the NNCES.
As for the NNCES, they’re banking on the natural resources of the Northern Neck being the beneficiaries of the website as people look for ways to modify their behaviors and lessen the destruction of resources. The website is one vehicle for getting that sort of information out and it also allows the individual organizations to promote their missions and activities, all of which relate in some way to being good to the bay and its watershed.
“NNKgreen.org gives them a platform for sharing withthe public the many ways and opportunities to contribute to environmental sustainability in the Northern Neck,” says technical assistant Alex Eguiguren of the Northern Neck Planning District Commission, the group responsible forcreating and maintaining the website.
It couldn’t be simpler: the NNKgreen.org website was designed as the go-to place for all topics environmentally relevant to life on the Northern Neck. Because who doesn’t want to protect so much beauty?
Learn more at nnkgreen.org.
