In recent days with the harsh reality brought home once more that activism and change costs money, I have reflected on past actions against the odds.

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Where we started and why we did.

We will over the coming weeks and months be asking those who value change to a better and safer future, to get behind us. We’ll have to be blatant with our hands extended for financial assistance from all that value as we do, the Voice for (essential) Change. I can’t say I’m, or anyone at the Foundation is that comfortable with the pleas for you to help us with donations, or for asking you to think of and make introductions to organisation that could benefit by taking sponsorship opportunities with the Foundation, but ask for your help we must.

As I say we have been through this as many have before, so let’s go back a decade and more to 1997. I have not only due to our current financial circumstances revisited past actions, it has been that now finally we; people around the world are starting to wake up to the consequences of not thinking long term about what have become unconscious and ‘out of sight out of mind’ issues of plastic.

Over the coming weeks and months I will revisit the years from 1997 to 2006, the years where our everyday activities before the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation were spent. Pot Recyclers – meet the little man that was our mascot. Notice how the arrows around the logo go in the opposite direction to the well known recycling symbol; anticlockwise? That was deliberate to symbolise not going forward but turning back the clock on past practices.

As I mention, others like we did in 1997, are starting to look deeper into the outcome of the plastic planet we embarked on in the 1950. We see the concern now finally coming to roost on the use of BPA in a range of polymers and with its use to coat the inside of just about every can we buy our processed food in, or drink our soda’s from. We see in plastics where the carcinogens as in the case of diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) can cause endocrine disruption which can lead to cancers, birth defects, immune system suppression and developmental problems in our children.

We are finally starting to become aware that the oceans have a problem with our plastic addiction. We are starting to become aware that our marine life is threatened. We are not yet starting to think even further down the outcome trail to the positive feedback that the return of ingested BPA or DEHP will have, when it again returns to our plates in the sea food we eat. Or how eventually as it leaches out of landfill into our water tables, will come back to haunt us through our taps.

I have been saying lately that the Foundations ‘Voice For Change’ started in 2006, but I guess that is wrong because it really started to be raised in 1997. So Ill write more on the plastic plague in coming posts that will make you go WOW! but for now, think how you value a Voice For Change and help it continue even if only to the donation of the cost of your next cup of latté or the value of that next ‘Big Mac’ Donate it here.

And sit back and watch the following about our oceans plastic legacy, by not thinking through our present practices.

I can’t say I’m a fan of Letterman but I am grateful to Captain Charles Moore who reportedly was the first to raise the issue of the Pacific Gyre.

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Charles Moore on David Letterman Part 1 HD 1080p

Charles Moore on David Letterman Part 2 HD 1080p

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