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World WEEK

With the Western Weekend parade on Sunday 6/4/23, World Environment Day on Monday 6//5/23 and World Oceans Day on Thursday 6/8/23, we are naming it World Week for all we have to celebrate about this World Planet. We're happy that there’s been lots of press about us and One Beach Plastic. 

On Sunday June 4, it was a Trash Castle triumph as the team from EAC paraded down Main Street in PRS for Western Weekend. EAC posted pics on their Facebook and on  Instagram.

By late afternoon the TC was right back in place on the corner of SFD and Lagunitas and was standing tall for World Environment Day - it’s on the map - the theme this year #BeatPlasticPollution.

Thanks to Cory van Gelder, our very local Stone Soup published her story about our story and our work with the Greenstichers. Our wedding photo on the cover and How Trash Became a Valley Love Story on pg 6.

Sharon McDonnell interviewed Richard for the summer issue of  OnWisconsin his alumni magazine. It's just One Word: Plastics Go Badgers!!!

Marine Traffic in Athens, Greece is an international is a maritime analytics provider, which provides real-time information on the movements of ships and the current location of ships in harbors and ports. Their blog that keeps track of transport on land and sea stories for World Environment Day the blog highlighted us. 

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Climate Coach

Michael Cohen, Climate Coach columnist for the Washington Post wrote about his efforts to buy everything used - Why we should buy everything used. He was successful with most but lamented his inability to find a pair of used wet suit gloves. So Judith quick sent him a pic and a note about our collection of gloves.

Dear Michael,

Your difficulty in finding a used wet suit glove to buy caught my eye. We are hoping that one from our collection of gloves that have washed ashore on to Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore might just fit. Since 1999 my husband and I have been gleaning plastic from 1000 yards of that one beach. We describe our project as "shopping for plastic."  We are not cleaning the beach but we are curating the beach, since some of what we find we put to reuse in our daily life and most we put to use in our artwork. https://www.beachplastic.com

Best,

Judith and Richard

Michael responded with our pic with a post in his column. Scroll down to read his feature Field Sample.

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Western Weekend

In Point Reyes Station, June 3-4, it was the 75th "Western Weekend" — a two-day village wide celebration of West Marin's rural roots. The parade kicked off with huge rounds of applause as the procession of fire engines and emergency vehicles along with the sheriff’s mounted posse on horse back passed by, lest we forget how much we appreciate their quick-to-the-rescue services. For rural roots, for the dairy cow gals, a massive pure bred no-bull bull strutted his stuff. We heard tell, worth $40,000!  There were the stalwart non-profits folks who make this place better for all — Coastal Marin Fund, Lions Club, West Marin Community Services. 

Thanks to Morgan Patton, executive director of the Environmental Action Committee, and a cadre of kids and adults our Trash Castle poles were marched down Main Street. What an art-in-action performance!

Everyone loves a parade!

Everything goes better with bagpipes!

The EAC made sure that everyone got the message:

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Every Day

What a glorious finale to our Earth Day days — 

We were with Grandson Reed and an energetic jumble (some 40)  T-K (transitional kindergarten) and kindergarten cohorts assisted by 4^th graders at Coleman School in San Rafael.

We brought a big bin of bright and colorful plastic that we poured on to the carpet. With no instruction needed, the kids knew just what to do. On a piece of tag board they arranged and rearranged the pieces until they got them just right, then we snapped a pic. Even at age 5-6 individual predilections were already apparent in their choices of color and composition.

After the activity, the kids had gained a new awareness. They were out and about, bringing back pieces of plastic (including a turquoise crocodile) that they found on the playground. Hey, it's not trash, it's free art supplies! Hey, it's Earth Day, Every Day!

What a find — trash into treasure.

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Sea Span

We've been on it, celebrating Earth Month, Earth Week, Earth Weekend, Earth Day with the install of our Trash Castle on Thursday, school field trips to the TC on Friday, the Climate Fest on Saturday, Earth Day Marin in Mill Valley on Sunday, then a hands-on plastic workshop with first graders at Coleman School with grandson Gray on Monday. WHEW!!! We love our Earth but will be glad to be on the other side of all of this festive frenzy.

All the while our Sea Span TV has been on play in the exhibition the Elephant in the Room at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center.

❤️🌎🎉

R&J

Earth Day Marin

 

Hey, you climate champs, sure was great to celebrate this wonderful planet we call home.

It was a spectacular day — we are all in for any event that serves up free scoops of Straus Family Creamery ice cream. And especially fun during the last flurry of moments as artists/friends picked up their artwork —  it was a wonderful love fest to see everyone.

Thanks to Freddy Hahne, Vickisa and Green Change for bringing such a great group together.

In the black shadow boxes we presented:

Simulacraceae

These plastic leaves and flowers washed ashore on to Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore. They are part of our prized collection of Simulacraceae, a satirical taxon given to faux plants by ethnobotanists from Cornell and Yale. They’re plastic so they will last forever. 

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