Which “Ocean Lover” does not want to enjoy a beautiful day at the beach, frolicking in the sand, water & waves? We all do!
But an unprecedented monster is lingering out there, hidden under the seas…
No, we are not talking about the “shark”, which can mistakenly take you out as a turtle while boogie-boarding, or the devilish rip-current that washes you out to sea, or the “Kraken” from “The Pirates of the Caribean”… …we are talking about a “Plastic Monster Wave”, created by all of us - Humans - and carried around by a “Monster Plastic Current”, from Pacific Island to Pacific Island, from beach to beach, from shore to shore…
Only a few months ago a British News Magazine reported about the plastic gyre that has become so thick and expansive that we cannot ignore it anymore as something “remote”. It is a very tangible threat to all plankton and creatures that are somehow related to “Eating Plankton” (which is ultimately us, eating fish) - it is right in front of our own yard! The numbers and facts are staggering and frightening when you look at this graphic from the magazine’s article:
We got inspired a while ago to think a bit harder about this problem when watching “Ocean Adventures Voyage to Kure”, produced by Movie Director & Documentary Maestro Paul Atkins and Marine Wildlife Naturalist Jean-Michel Cousteau about the beauty of the remote NW HI Islands.
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One of the key moments (to me personally) in the series was when Jean-Michel grabbed a carcass of a large Albatross and shook it hard, with all the plastic tubes clunking out of the carcass to the ground. It really hit reality hard back home, and truly not only close to the ocean!
Watching this impressive piece of film art, even one of our “Greatest Presidents in the American History” took a heart and declared this area as a “National Natural Monument”! Good so and “Mission Accomplished”!? – May be not so…
Melody Hunter, a young lady on Kauai, mother of two young children, decided that she cannot be longer part of the problem, but wants to become part of the solution: She founded a company called EARTH SURGE (www.EarthSurge.com) to promote and distribute 100% bio-degradable products to replace plastic – how cool is that?
“Almost everything you can imagine that has been Plastic is now bio-degradable! From “Plastic Cups” to “Doggy (Poop) Bags” to “Plates & Cuttlery”, we got it all now. And this old stigma of going down to the baseball or soccer field, and leaving a load of plastic trash behind are simply GONE, even when they are gone with the wind - they do not hurt our environment anymore in the long-term, but break down within a few years.”
The company’s products are now available through their rapidly growing distributor system, and everyone – be is as an individual or company – can enroll as a “Bio-Degradable Affiliate”, and not only buy their products, but earn a fair-share of 15% of the income from the profits made through own contacts and new contracts.
Says Paul Clark, director of “Save Our Seas” on Kauai, and co-founder of “Earth Surge”:
“We may not have the strongest marketing system in place yet to advertise this campaign on a large scale, but still: people start to recognize the importance that we all - as individuals or corporations - can do something in our daily lifes to preserve and protect for our kids what we inherited from our previous generations – a natural world that we all use for our jobs & recreation activities. And our “Mouth To Mouth” referral system starts to show very promising signs of receptivity among those we approach with this.”
Potent sponsors in form of private citizens have started to step up to the plate and allowed to form a very strong team of scientists, educators, entrepreneurs and film makers within “Save Our Seas” over the past 6 months to work together on developing a program that continuously educates the general public and to distribute products that are less harmful to our environment than what we use now in our daily routines - such as “Earth Surge” 100% bio-degradables.
And it is about time because who is interested to be hit by that “Monster Plastic Wave” while playing at the beach? Time to do something before we completely run out of time! Jean-Michel Cousteau and his “Ocean Adventure” team, film director Paul Atkins and many others have set a great path of “WHY to do this…” (the treasures we possibly loose due to our choices are too precious…) - and now it is time for all of us to really DO our fair share to turn the tide!
You can request more information about “Earth Surge” and “Save Our Seas” activities around this campaign by filling out the form at the end of this article (see: below).
Carpe Diem, preferably without using plastic, PLEASE/Por Favor/Bitte!…
T 
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National Geographic has sponsored some research showing the immensity of this “sun lotion coral reef disaster” over time, and we are proud to say: “We know how to do better! Now only for our skin, but also for our reefs!
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