Happy Monday!
I woke up to a message from the lovely (I am just sure she is lovely) Colleen Mondor telling me that she had featured TRACKING TRASH in her Booslut article and on her Chasing Ray website. This was a pleasant way to start the week. I was particularly pleased to read Colleen’s challenge to her readers:
“GO READ THIS BOOK! Then work on using less plastic and saving the ocean. Get busy folks, make this your number one summer project!”
Using less plastic can be easy. It sounds snarky, but you just, well, use less plastic. Especially the single-use, disposable kind (plastic cutlery and plastic baggies, for example). But saving the ocean? How does one actually do that? If you have read TRACKING TRASH, then you know that one way is to get involved in The Ocean Conservancy‘s International Coastal Cleanup. These beach cleanups are held all over the country–all over the world, actually–every September.
What’s that? You don’t actually live near the ocean? No worries. You can still get involved. I’m hosting an ICC event near my home in landlocked central Massachusetts this fall. Our waterways are all connected, so cleaning up an inland pond is just as important as cleaning up a coastal beach.
Stay tuned … I’ll be posting lots more information on coastal cleanups in the coming months. For now, go check out some of Colleen’s many, many book reviews. I’m heading back over there myself …