The Conservation Kid: Cleaning Up the World, One River at a Time

09/13/23 • 16 min

In this inspiring episode we meet with Cash Daniels, also known as the Conservation Kid. Cash co-founded the Clean Up Kids nonprofit, dedicated to engaging youth in environmental action campaigns, speeches, and film screenings to protect our environment and natural resources. Discover how Cash's passion for conservation started, his mission to clean up rivers, and his remarkable achievements, including removing over 25,000 pounds of trash from the Tennessee River. Join us as Cash shares his journey, the strangest things he's found during cleanups, and how he's inspiring young people worldwide to take action and become stewards of the planet. Don't miss this empowering conversation with a young environmental hero who reminds us that kids are 100% of the future.

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