National Clean Beaches Week. July 1-7, 2024.

National Clean Beaches Week. July 1-7, 2024.
 
Are you headed for the beach this summer? We all want to frolic in clean water, and love seeing dolphins and whales playing in the waves. When we think of cleaning our oceans and beaches, plastic waste comes to mind, as does pollution runoff that can make swimming and surfing unhealthy. It can feel like other people and corporations are the polluters, especially if we already have our reusable water canteen and coffee mug. However, in fact, there’s a lot more that each one of us can do to rid our oceans of the flotsam, jetsam, gunk and toxins that none of us want to swim in – or see turtles wrapped up in.
 
Diving deeper into ocean health has an additional upside in that it brings greater physical health to us personally (and our entire planet), and can save us a lot of money, too.
 
5 Tips for National Clean Beaches Week
 
Refuse Plastic (Go Old School for Our Coffee and Green Drinks, and refuse plastic packaging)
1 RX for Toxic Waste From Storm Drains: Eat Local, Regenerative & Organic
Swim, Surf, Row and Sail (instead of Jet Skiing, Yachting and Cruise Ships)
Buy Less of Everything
Walk and Bike More
 
Here are a few facts that just don’t hit the news very often, along with additional information on the 5 tips for supporting healthy oceans and the diverse plants and animals who live there.
 
Refuse Plastic (Go Old School for Our Coffee and Green Drinks, and Refuse Plastic Packaging)
Less than 9% of plastic gets recycled. This is why we must refuse plastic, instead of just throwing it away in what we think is the proper bin. There are many ways we can do this with just a little preparation. I’ll discuss some of the ways that I have reduced my personal plastic footprint by 80% in my June 27, 2024 free videoconference at 3 pm PT (6 pm ET).   
 
1 RX for Toxic Waste From Storm Drains: Eat Local, Regenerative & Organic
There is a Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico that is about the size of Connecticut, where no fish or marine life can live. The cause? Industrial chicken, cattle and pig farm pollution, and conventionally grown produce toxins runoff that travels down the Mississippi River. Eating local, regenerative & organic produce and meat is one solution. Community and personal gardens are even better. Some organizations like Ron Finley, the Edible Schoolyard, Green Our Planet, and Good Neighbor Gardens offer classes and curriculum. Many are featured in the Food & Health and Kids episodes of our free Earth Gratitude docuseries.
 
Cheap chicken, rainforest beef and pesticide produce all end up washing pollutants into our oceans.
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Swim, Surf, Row and Sail (instead of Jet Skiing, Yachting and Cruise Ships)
Cruise ships emit two to three times the CO2 of flying, and pollute oceans with their sewage, gray water, bilge water, ballast water, hazardous waste and solids waste. Yachts get about 3-5 mpg of gasoline. A jet ski operated for two hours can produce as much CO2 as a car driven for 130,000 miles. Older models dump gallons of gasoline into the water.
 

Buy Less of Everything
An unfathomable amount of pollution occurs while shipping products made in China around the world. Many of the popular new fast fashion brands are Chinese-owned, and almost all of cheap goods are made in Asia.
 
Walk and Bike More
The 87-day oil spillage of the Deepwater Horizon, of an estimated 134 million gallons of oil, is the worst in history. Experts are still assessing the long-term damage of this spill. Many oil spills and environmental disasters are not reported nationally, unless they are truly monumental. How many of us heard that there was a 3-4 mile oil slick off of Louisiana reported on Nov. 16, 2023 – representing over a million gallons of oil?
 
When we find ways to garage the car and walk and bike more, we are a big part of the solution of kicking our oil addiction and the pervasive pollution that results from having oil products touch so many aspects of our lives. (Plastic, polyester, asphalt, rubber, even our sneakers and CROCs are all made from oil.) Yes, EVs pollute less than ICE vehicles (in most states). However, replacing each single-occupancy ICE vehicle with an EV still has a large environmental impact, and doesn’t address the need for shade trees, walkable neighborhoods, and for reducing traffic jams, gridlock and other urban blight.
 
Bottom Line
This list is not comprehensive. However, so many of the tips from other sources are focusing on zinc-based sunscreen that I felt a strong desire to deepen the well of our wisdom, so that we might drink clean water and surf with the dolphins for seven generations to come. Join me for my June 27, 2024 free videoconference at 3 pm PT (6 pm ET) to gain even more clarity. Email [email protected] with VIDEOCON in the subject line if you’d like to join us live. Otherwise, you can watch the videoconference back at YouTube.com/NataliePace.
 
FYI: May was National Biking Month. Learn why Amsterdam and the Paris are the superstar cities of the world in this regard in my May 2024 National Biking Month blog.



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