Posts Tagged ‘Pacific Garbage Patch’

Shaping Tomorrow By Acting Today

by Tom Lunneborg on July 6, 2010

We shape tomorrow’s world every day.  It is unavoidable.  What you and I are doing right now is shaping how our very next day will turn out.  Think about it for a moment.  That laundry I put off, well tomorrow I won’t have any more clean underwear.  I just created a crisis situation that forces me to act.  I am either going to do a load of laundry or buy more on my way home tonight.  How the crisis is remedied is up to me, but my actions of procrastinating shaped part of my tomorrow.

Every day we shape our lives through our actions.  Either by doing or not doing.  Our actions and non-actions  shape tomorrow.  As a family, community, state, nation, planet we are shaping our future.  As a planet we created the giant plastic garbage patches in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.  It contaminates our water, food chain, and kills wildlife.  This plastic mass continues to grow.  It is shaped by us.

We shape the planet of tomorrow by reducing plastic waste or creating plastic waste.  Our choice makes a difference.  Every time we as leaders use our 21TEN stainless steel bottle we cut down on waste.  We send a message to others and we “walk the talk”.  Don’t let it stop there.  Evaluate your weekly purchases of disposable items.  Pay attention to packaging.  Recycle product packaging after the product is gone.  We vote with every purchase.  Make your vote count by purchasing products in Eco-friendly, recyclable packaging.

Remember, what you do or do not do today shapes tomorrow.  This fact works on everything in your life, including laundry.

21TEN will be here for the next 100 years and beyond.

Let’s lead everyone else and shape tomorrow in a positive way.

Patching up the environment

by Tom Lunneborg on March 25, 2010

If you’ve been following us for any length of time, you know that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a big motivator behind 21TEN’s sustainability initiatives.

For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a continent of trash – mainly small bits of plastic – floating in the Pacific Ocean. (And “great” refers to its size, not its awesomeness.) It’s seriously dismaying.
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