Welcome to our new blog look and feel! For the inaugural post on this fresh new blog canvas, we’re going to Costa Rica, where a surf school like no other we know of is helping transform its hometown community into a showcase of engaged local eco-action, and sending ripples of positive, sustainable “pura vida” out…
We’re thrilled to team up with Travel Well Magazine and the Plastic Pollution Coalition for the #Repurposely 30-Day DIY Repurposing Challenge!
Refuse to accept refuse! Creatively repurpose something into a new use and life to prevent it from heading to a landfill.
You could win a cool travel set of our products…
Share the actions you’ve taken toward sustainable living, a healthy ocean, and a flourishing planet, and you could win a free 7-day surf and yoga vacation in Costa Rica at the inspiring eco-aware Bodhi Surf Camp.
We won last year and are going in two weeks!
Read more about the My Ocean Guardian Journey Contest…
Yes, it’s Plastic FREE July, and there is less than a week left to enter the Challenge and Giveaway organized by BALM! Baby, a company specializing in natural baby care products, and which uses non-plastic packaging.
There are fabulous prizes to be had, including a set of our Freezycup Ice Pop Molds…
“I’m optimistic after hanging out with these kids today.”
Those are the words of musician/eco-crusador Jack Johnson during the 2014 Plastic Ocean Pollution Solutions (POPS) Youth Leadership Summit organized by Algalita Marine Research and Education.
Youth from around the globe meet in Long Beach, California on February 27th for the 2015 POPS Summit.
As far as sensory experiences involving taste buds go, this one is near the top.
It’s a European-style rich thick hot chocolate locally made with love.
And you can experience it too…
…and we’re on a mission to reclaim it from the grips of a toxic, polluting and unhealthy industry.
There’s much more to this “plastic” word than meets the eye.
After all the unbridled shopping of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, Tuesday is an opportunity to give back.
Learn more about the new global movement, Giving Tuesday, and how you can take part.
19 June 2012 — Beth Terry writes the pre-eminent blog in this world on living without plastic: My Plastic-free Life. She meticulously tracks her monthly plastic consumption down to the last plastic envelope window, and blogs passionately about it. That alone is reason enough for us to love her and consider her one of our heros, but there is more. Why do we love Beth? She’s funny, straightforward, unafraid to tell it like it is, a superb researcher and writer, an idea factory, super well-organized and systematic, action-oriented, great at making fun of herself to make a point, and, as you can tell by now…she walks her talk. I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know her in person a few years ago, and at the time I blogged about the blast we had together at the Green Festival in San Francisco.
Now, everyone can walk Beth’s talk and change their lives and the world at the same time by living with less plastic. Her book, Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too, was just launched worldwide a few days ago, and it is well worth checking out. You can purchase ithere.
We live in an eclectic village of community activists. The spirit of postive change is in the fresh air and in the Gatineau River water that flow through town. One example of that magic is the Wakefield International Film Festival (WIFF), the ‘little festival that thought big’, as local media have come to call it in lauding the world class quality of its programming and execution. WIFF is led by two passionate champions of documentaries and independent filmmaking, Brenda and Robert Rooney, who run the Festival with help of the dynamic and hilarious local troupe, Theatre Wakefield. It is a festival that inspires change.
We are deeply honoured to be sponsoring the showing at WIFF on Sunday, February 13, 2011 of ‘Waste Land’ – an utterly mesmerizing film about the depths and heights of life and humanity on this Earth in the presence of something we all know, though perhaps not well enough: garbage. Renowned Brazilian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz takes us on a journey to the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and the world’s largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho. He finds there a thriving community of charismatic ‘catadores’ or pickers of recyclable materials – not garbage, recyclable materials. Remember that, it’s important.
