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…
He is known as the Paper Bag Boy. He is on a mission to rid the world of plastic bags.
And now Abdul Muqeet has joined forces with India’s Technex 2015, one of the largest student-run tech-management conferences in the world, to raise awareness and reduce plastic bag use across India.
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.
25 October, 2010 — Plastic pollution in the oceans is a serious problem. It accumulates, degrades, absorbs and releases chemicals, and kills ocean wildlife. Did you know that approximately 80% of the garbage in the world’s oceans comes from land-based sources? And about half of this consists of petroleum-based plastics that have not been properly disposed of by consumers. Life Without Plastic is honoured to be teaming up with the 5 Gyres Institute, a dynamic, cutting edge research and exploration non-profit organization that is tackling the problem of oceanic plastic pollution head on by undertaking research voyages in the world’s oceans. In a few weeks, they embark on thefirst ever South Atlantic Ocean study of plastic pollution.
1 March 2013 — A joint report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) entitled, “State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – 2012” was released on February 19, 2013.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) leach from numerous types of plastic, and are now present throughout the environment, including in oceans and the air.
The report is the most comprehensive overview of research on endocrine disrupting chemicals to date, and highlights associations between such hormone disrupting chemicals and serious health problems – for example, the potential for such synthetic chemicals to contribute to the development of non-descended testes in young males, breast cancer in women, prostate cancer in men, developmental effects on the nervous system in children, attention deficit /hyperactivity in children and thyroid cancer.
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.
September 2011 — First, an embarassing confession: I meant to write this blogpost, er, um, about a year ago. Life happens. Here it is finally. Thankfully, it is still relevant. Correction: More relevant than ever.
Just over a year ago we had the pleasure and honour of co-sponsoring – with our friends at La Forêt andThe Black Sheep Inn – a Wakefield, Quebec screening of the funky, powerful, funny, award-winning, *important* indie documentary The Clean Bin Project. I’ll get to why it is so important a little later.
The dynamic, waste-busting, film-making duo of Vancouverites Jen and Grant embarked on a year-long project they dubbed their “zero waste, consumer-free year”.
Their mantra: “The goal is zero landfill waste. For one year we will not buy any material goods and will attempt to live without producing household garbage.”
