“If you believe you can or if you believe you can’t, your right.”

Henry Ford

The last 2 years of my life has been a real eye opener environmentally speaking (many other ways as well) to what is really happening. As an individual I want to help clean up some of the damage, we as a species have done & are doing to this planet. On April 23rd 2008, my life changed, forever. On this day, Environmental Cleanup Coalition was born, the Gyre Cleanup Project being our first main focus.

What I’ve found is that many other people want to make a change, a positive impact. As founder and spokesperson for ECC, people ask me all the time, “How can I help?”.  This project offers an opportunity for those who are looking, like myself. Build it and they will come; it is a simple theory. ECC has become a central hub of what the problem is and most importantly “Solutions”.

“I feel that one of the greatest challenges that we face as human beings today is; To reconnect with the Earth. As we connect with her we also connect with self.”

Richard Sundance Owen

Annie Leonard describes the cycle of life of the products we use on a daily basis. Shining light on a system that many of us have not been aware of until now.

This online presentation is a fantastic review of where we are now, which details our current system of consumerism and waste detail. After ready this information, it begs the questions of where we will choose to go from here!!

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Someone recently asked me: “What is The Gyre Cleanup Project all about?” I don’t know about you, but sometimes, it is easier to describe what we are not, prior to talking about what we are.  Briefly here is a short recap of how I responded: It’s not a war on plastic, we have enough wars; It’s not a fight against poor governmental environmental policies, though we advocate change; It’s not a fight against bad manufacturing practices, though we agree much change is needed here at the source of the material; and lastly, it is not a judgment of where we are individually with our own plastic use.

What we are ALL about:
It is a call to awareness of where we are at and what’s happening in our oceans and our food chain. We believe that with new information we can make a difference and start to be a part of the positive transformation of our oceans.  WE are a grassroots movement to encourage individual action and collaboration between people of this planet to help address the plastic that has gotten caught in the natural moving tides of our oceans, called ‘gyres’.