From Love to Action, Saving Oceania: Interview by Founders of 9 for 17
The above photo and quote were my introduction to Leah and Talitha Wisner. I stumbled upon their instagram account last year and was moved to contact them. Their research proved that 9 of the UN’s 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development could be met by one person going vegan (living a plant-based lifestyle). They […]
Plastic-Coated Paradise??
…Yet another plastic-ridden beach thousands of miles from any significant metropolis… Mckenzie and I hiked over the hill from where Swell was anchored hoping to find some wind-swell peaks to surf one morning. Instead, we discovered this spectacular 1/2 mile-long beach coated in plastic trash (and Portugese man-o-wars!) from end to end. This beach faces […]
Whale Tale
Tucked into an inside atoll corner one morning, I felt like watching the open sea crash onto the reef so I took the dinghy in and anchored it on the lagoon side of the reef, then wandered the 500 yards across the island to where the reef dropped off into the open Pacific… The atolls […]
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY: 5th International Marine Debris Conference…Words from Roz Savage
When I set out on this trip, I thought there would still be places where I could see what the Earth looked like prior to human impact. Sadly, I think I was wrong. Every place I have sailed has borne painful evidence of humanity’s maltreatment of the Earth. The coral is dying, fish populations are […]
