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This week’s inspiring video: This Hardworking Group Is Cleaning America’s Last Frontier
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Video of the Week
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This Hardworking Group Is Cleaning America’s Last Frontier
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| Eight million tons of plastic waste end up in our oceans every year. Currents in the Pacific bring much of that garbage up to beaches along the Alaska coastline. In 2002, a group of volunteers began cleaning up this debris, and in 2006 this work evolved into a project known as the Gulf of Alaska Keeper (GoAK). To date, GoAK “has removed over 3 million pounds of toxic plastic debris from over 1,500 miles of critical and sensitive coastal habitat.” In many locations, the debris has been accumulating for decades. The items GoAK removes from these coastline habitats aren’t just sent to landfills, they are all sorted, counted, logged, and weighed. In 2007, GoAK also started looking into the origin of the trash, which accumulates from all over the world, and is exacerbated by natural events such as the tsunami in Japan. We are all responsible. We all use plastic. We can all take action on a personal, local, regional, and national level to reduce the amount of waste and litter ended up in these environments. |
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
– Kahlil Gibran –
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The Blind Man and Double Amputee Who Planted 10,000 Trees
Two friends from Northern China are not letting their handicaps hold them back. Jia Wenqi, a double amputee, and Jia Haixa, who is completely blind, have been working together to plant trees along a riverbank in Yeli Village, planting an astounding 10,000 trees over the last decade. Finding it difficult to gain employment, the pair approached the local government with their idea. They hope that their efforts will pay off for generations to come. They each use their unique skills and capabilities to achieve their mission, at times carrying each other across the river and using their feet to hold and pass objects. “I am his hands. He is my eyes,” says Haixa. Read on to learn more about the incredible work of this fearless duo. { read more }
Be The Change
What do you find most inspiring about the work of these two friends? How can you bring the spirit of their service-hearted collaboration into your own life and relationships? |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 