This publication is dedicated to environmental solutions in the Southeast. It documents the capacity of citizens to have a positive impact on their environment. Christine Bock's Recipe for a Clean River By Laura Chamberlain Christine Bock's irritation levels soar at the thought of people throwing trash into the Tennessee River. River Rescue for the past three years and been involved since it began 11 years ago, has a passion for the environment and wants others to get involved too. The TN River Rescue, one of Bock's many environmental endeavors, is an annual river cleanup project held on the first Saturday in October.
Groups meet along the river and then go out and make their area of the river look clean again.
Bock is tireless when it comes to environmental issues, especially the TN River Rescue. And getting people involved is one of her biggest efforts. Her study of the environment began at UTC where she graduated with a degree in environmental science. Now she is not only working on her master's in environmental science, but is also lead horticulturist at the Tennessee Aquarium. The idea of a Tennessee River Rescue started when Dennis Haldeman and some of his friends from Earthworks, a local environmental group at the time, saw how much surface trash was in the water of the Tennessee River near Chattanooga.