Category: ocean conservation
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How Yoga Pants Pollute the Ocean
A topic near and not-so-dear to my heart, unsustainable activewear, especially yoga pants, shed plastic in the form of micro threads and show up in marine life across the planet. What goes around, comes around and so we must know that if we put it out there, it ends back up in us. I have […]
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How Fancy Yoga Pants Destroy the Ocean
I am dismayed to learn that clams are eating our Lululemons. It wasn’t the mention of microplastics that got my attention. Microplastics are mainstream discussion these days, as they should be. It was the fact that eight pages into the book I was reading, I learned that most of the microplastics ingested by sea snails […]
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To Save the Oceans, We Need to Quiet Down
When I sit to write this, I am hindered by the vibration of a neighbor’s television. Skittish, my heartrate quickens, my eyes dart around the page and I am increasingly agitated. Focus is lost and my mind consistently latches onto the annoying sound of the early morning news at full volume. Reluctantly, I put my […]