Wake UP to your own ability to make a difference!

Most of us want to do the right thing to help the environment but we are so busy, so entrenched in our old habits and so ill-equipt to make the simple changes necessary to impact life quality on the earth.

Maybe we need to jar ourselves awake by looking at the impact we are having by NOT making these conscious choices. Take a look at this shocking and beautiful exhibit by Seattle artist Chris Jordan. His work forces us to look at the implications of not changing our habits. It might just inspire you to take the next step..... Hey... we're all just learning how to be better global citizens.

www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=

For a look at what impact we are having on the oceans, check out this website from the Oceans Future Network by Jean-Michel Cousteau. He relates in his presentations that he took a group of students from the University of Hawaii to one of the most remote Hawaiian Atols, an island so remote and uninhabited, and so sacred to the Hawaiian indigenous people that Cousteau needed to get the approval of a local Shaman to even dock a boat there. Are you imagining a pristine idyllic beach? Think again.

When they arrived they set to work analyzing the beach material and found that it was, incredibly, there was more than 6 times the amount of plastic in the beach material than sand or seaweed. Check it out at...

www.oceanfutures.org/ofs/global_ocean.php and learn more at www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Synthetic-Sea-Moore.htm