TAPPED - March 24, 2010 SAMOHI

TAPPED the movie at Santa Monica High School

presented by Team Marine and The Daily Ocean

After the screening, many of the students gathered in the loby of Barnum Hall to take a picture showing our solidarity against Bottled Water and for TAPPED!!!

We counted 125 +/- in attendance

Afterwards, we asked people to sign our pledge to REFISE USING SINGLE USE PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES - with 80 signatures so far, that is a pretty good show of support!

These pledge posters are now up in Mr. Kay's Marine Bio Room, so if you forgot, or didn't have a chance to sign yesterday, you can still sign!!!!

We would like to add these signatures to the TAPPED, "GET OFF THE BOTTLE CAMPAIGN" as the director Stephanie Soechtig and her Line Producer Sarah Olson, continue on their 30 DAY/ 30 CITY tour across the USA! Find out more: TAPPED

Day 107 - March 24

life guard station 26 - Ocean Park, Santa Monica CA

trash collected for 20 minutes

2.1 pounds

427.4 pounds
Today we showed the movie TAPPED at Santa Monica High School, and wouldn't you know it, the first kind of trash that I found on the beach was a PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE.

fun fact I learned from TAPPED: if you leave your water bottle in the sun, then drink the water in it, you have an even greater risk of leaching Benzene, a known carcinogen, into the water you are about to drink. Hmmm.......bottled water is supposed to be a "healthy choice" right?

No, turns out that your paying for tap water (40% of all bottled water comes from a municipal source) that then comes to you in a plastic bottle that leaches cancer causing chemicals into it.

Oh, but not before you pay an 1000% mark up for this now contaminated tap water.....

Talk about total insaninty!!! Reminds me of the tobaco industry.

wwww.tappedthemovie.com

Plastic....check out this blog that I really like with a link to a cool video about the, "The Story of Bottled Water." - LESS PLASTIC MORE LIFE - started by:

"A POLYMER ENGINEER BY TRAINING, A NATURE LOVER BY HEART. THE HEART WON. AND HENCE THIS BLOG." - how f*&%ng cool is that?!?!

This is a graphic picture of shark fins gathered after the brutal practice of Shark Finning.

Let's put an end to this insanity, shall we?

Go to STOP SHARK FINNING

"KEEP SHARKS IN THE OCEAN AND OUT OF SOUP."

It was very dark by 7:08 when I arrived at the beach. I felt exhilirated after seeing TAPPED with 125+/- people, but I have to say it is easy to feel as dark as this weather about the future of our environment when I come to terms with the size of the David and Goliath fight we have on our hands against plastic pollution.

What's the option though?

There is none, and so as my friend and co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition

Manueal Maqueda says, "Onward!!!!!"