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Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left.... |
Category: Events
Contest: Sign up for a Plastic-Free Event
Once again, it’s Julie McCoy, your cruise director here, with several events happening on the Lido deck. The first is a United States event, the next two are specifically Bay Area events, and the last two are activities for everyone no matter where you live. Join one or more for a chance to win [...]
Read the full post.Deserves Changes contest: I need your votes!
Wow! I wouldn’t ordinarily interrupt my usual blog schedule for something like this, but I am just so pleased and honored. Gail Johnson from GlassDharma, the company that makes the glass drinking straw that I carry with me everywhere to avoid plastic, nominated me a while ago for the Deserves Changes contest. And I’ve just [...]
Read the full post.Green Festival SF: Life Without Plastic & Luna Pads Give-Away
11/20/09 Update: The winner of the Luna Panties is… (see below.)
The Green Festival… this weekend was my third and probably best experience attending. I’ve read negative reviews of the Green Festival from green bloggers bemoaning that the vendor floor is so consumption-oriented and there is still so much plastic packaging and plastic products. Those [...]
350 Day on the Beach. Where in the World is Beth?
350.org has released this fantastic video showing actions all over the world that took place on October 24.
So where was I?
The best laid plans sometimes go awry when unknown locations and strange parking fee machines are involved. By the time I got to the beach in Santa Monica for the 350 Day Blogger Beach [...]
This Weekend is All About Plastic
I’m leaving tonight for a last minute trip to Los Angeles to participate in activities of the newly formed Plastic Pollution Coalition, of which I am privileged to be an advisor. Whether you live in the L.A. area or not, there are ways to participate.
Is Plastic Washed Up? We think so. And it’s [...]
Read the full post.Living in the Age of Stupid or the Age of Compassion?
Monday began with me in a classroom in Benicia, teaching children about plastic, and ended in a cheesy piano bar in San Francisco’s Union Square. In between, a phenomenal global event.
Sitting in a Century movie theater in downtown San Francisco, I was taken over by waves of grief for our planet and especially its [...]
Obama & the Ocean Need You! Participate & Win a LunchBots Eco!
10/08/2009 Update: Heather is the winner of the LunchBots Eco stainless steel lunch container. Congratulations. And thank you everyone for all your work.
Our oceans are filling up with plastic. But you know that or you probably wouldn’t be here. Aside from personal changes to reduce plastic in our own lives, [...]
Outside Lands Rocks with Less Plastic
Don’t get me wrong. There was still a ton of plastic waste to be recycled from the Outside Lands Music Festival that took place this weekend in Golden Gate Park.
But less than last year. Because instead of providing only bottled water, the festival organizers listened to the feedback from last year’s [...]
What I learned from #BlogHer09
Despite the impression I might have given in my previous post, “Blogher ‘09 and The Story of Stuff,” the BlogHer conference was not only about swag and vendors and overconsumption. The experience had a huge impact on me, bigger than I can properly articulate at this point. But for right now, here [...]
Read the full post.Blogher ‘09 and The Story of Stuff
What have you heard about #BlogHer09 so far? Stories are circulating around the web that the conference is no longer about connection and content and community and is instead all about sponsors and swag and greed. Check out this damning video by a Chicago writer who worked at the Pepsico booth for a [...]
Read the full post.Sponsors
Read my post about plastic-free recycled ReBinder school & office supplies here.
Read my post about GreenBoatStuff.com here! Their stuff is not just for boats!
