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2014.09.03: Paper in Motion
2014.09.03: Riverwalk Under Way
2014.03.20: River of Kool-Aid
2013.09.29: Ye Olde Time Rubbish Dump
2013.06.01: Great Mississippi River Cleanup
2013.05.27: Mississippi River Bike Trip - Day 5: Attack of the Buffalo Gnats
2013.05.26: Mississippi River Bike Trip - Day 4: Great River Road
2013.05.25: Mississippi River Bike Trip - Day 3: Trails into Town
2013.05.24: Mississippi River Bike Trip - Day 2: Dogs
2013.05.23: Mississippi River Bike Trip - Day 1: Connect the Dots
2013.05.12: Chicago River Day
2013.03.26: Freedom on the River
2013.02.20: Challenges of the Chicago River
2013.02.03: Des Plaines Sea Monkeys
2013.01.30: Midwinter Drought Relief
2013.01.22: Family Friendly Mekong Journey
2013.01.20: Start Building Boats Now!
2013.01.10: Behind the Scenes
2012.12.22: Lake Michigan's Drain
2012.10.26: A Series of Tubes
2012.08.15: Messing About in Boats
2012.08.02: A New Trash Raft
2012.07.24: Lovable Old Polluted Canal
2012.07.18: Like a Secondhand Sea
2012.06.18: Return of the Guerilla Flotilla
2012.01.23: Scrappers Dismantling Detroit
2011.10.30: The Fish Menace
2011.06.25: River Pollution of the Past
2011.06.21: Front and Center of Chicago
2011.05.17: America's Most Endangered Rivers
2011.05.13: Chicago River Swimmers
2011.03.30: The Wheel
2010.08.20: Recreation on the River
2010.07.28: Plastic Across the Pacific
2010.07.13: Send those fish back
2010.07.11: Chicago River Wrap-Up
2010.06.27: Re-reversal of the Chicago River
2010.06.24: Scrappers, the Movie
2010.06.23: A bit closer to the lake
2010.06.09: River Gumbo's Too Thick to Navigate - 7
2010.06.08: Into the American Jungle - 6
2010.06.07: No Beards in Beardstown - 5
2010.06.06: Prairie State - 4
2010.06.05: Poison Ivy For My Bed - 3
2010.06.04: 60 Miles on the I&M Canal - 2
2010.06.03: St. Louie or Bust - 1
2010.06.02: Swimming in the Chicago River
2010.04.06: Bikes by Boat / Boats by Bike
2010.03.09: Plastiki Set to Sail
2010.03.07: The Dirt on Recycling
2010.02.20: Cost of Closing the Canal
2010.02.17: Radio Journey on the Mekong
2010.02.16: Covered in Dust
2010.02.03: Elections Nobody Cares About
2010.01.22: Why a Dirty River is Green
2010.01.20: Carp's Day in Court
2010.01.17: Dreaming of Garbage
2009.12.28: Carp in Court
2009.12.03: One Fish Among Thousands
2009.12.01: River Blockade
2009.10.19: Water Pollution
2009.05.30: Stacy Found and Lost Again
2009.05.27: What's That Cooking?
2009.03.27: Don't Eat the Fish
2009.03.24: Cairo's Trash Collectors
2009.03.20: Stunt Dog Skis the River
2009.03.18: Green River
2009.03.12: Who Wants our Trash?
2009.03.10: 12,000 Bottles for 11,000 Miles
2009.03.09: Friendly Chemicals
2009.02.27: Steamed Fish for Everyone!
2008.12.02: Returning Home to the Sewage Plant
2008.11.25: End of the Cruise
2008.11.19: Mississippi Trashboat on Stage
2008.11.12: Carp Not Welcome Here
2008.09.11: Scrappers on Film
2008.09.09: Pedal vs. Paddle
2008.08.05: A Tour of Old Stinkney
2008.08.05: Water on the Radio
2008.07.24: Flushed down the Mississippi
2008.06.20: Another reason not to swim in the river
2008.05.27: A Thousand Straws
2008.05.22: Movable Bridges of the South Branch
2008.05.20: Wildflowers along the Des Plaines
2008.05.18: Streets & San in the News
2008.05.16: Up The Yangtze - The Film
2008.05.03: Scrappers by the River
2008.05.03: Blue Bags Dumped
2008.04.28: The Globalized Scrap Industry
2008.04.28: Riverwalk
2008.04.27: Up the Yangtze
2008.04.12: The Birdfoot
2008.04.09: When the Geese Return to Goose Island
2008.02.27: Twenty percent
2008.02.25: River Vagrants
2008.02.20: Draining the bathtub
2008.02.16: Surrounded by Water
2008.02.13: End of the Mississippi
2008.01.21: A Float Trip on the Li River - Part 2
2008.01.18: Cormorant Fishing on the Li River
2008.01.16: A Float Trip on the Li Jiang - Part 1
2008.01.10: Books - Cork Boat
2008.01.09: Sweeping up the last of the Bubbly bike pile
2008.01.03: Flirting with other rivers - The Sumida
2008.01.02: Books - The Illinois (Rivers of America)
2007.12.07: Mekong River Adventures
2007.12.06: Flirting with other rivers - The Mekong
2007.12.05: Trashboat, the Musical
2007.11.22: You Sunk My Battleship
2007.09.02: Launch Photos
2007.08.30: Our Route
2007.08.29: Big River - Day 5
2007.08.27: Obstacles - Day 4
2007.08.27: Down in the Flood - Day 3
2007.08.25: The Portage - Day 3
2007.08.24: Combined Sewer Outflow - Day 2
2007.08.23: Churning flatwater - Day 1
2007.08.23: Drying out
2007.08.17: Full speed ahead
2007.08.16: Homemade boats on the web
2007.08.15: Source of the Chicago River
2007.08.14: Flying Fish
2007.08.14: Launch Party
2007.08.14: It Floats!
2007.08.13: Gunwales
2007.08.13: Adding decking
2007.08.11: Busted
2007.08.10: Building the Frame
2007.08.10: Paddle Wheels
2007.08.10: Illinois River in the News
2007.08.09: Complications
2007.08.08: Launch Point
2007.08.08: Walk In The Water
2007.08.08: To Scally Island
2007.08.08: The Chop House
2007.08.08: Boat Blog

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