With apologies to the companies around the world that make straws, we need to break up. Let me explain:
More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year. How does #ocean #pollution affect humans? https://t.co/xw7nempBDG pic.twitter.com/qia0mPlhSN
— Plastic Oceans (@PlasticOceans) May 31, 2017
Plastic Oceans gets it. There are Texas-sized gyres of garbage floating around our oceans. That’s our fault. They’re not entirely comprised of straws, but just like sorting our recycling, saying “no straw please” when in restaurants may literally be the least we can do to combat our unhealthy relationship with plastic.
Do you know who gets it beyond Plastic Oceans? Vancouver’s new amazing, inspired social enterprise, Zero Waste Market.
Learn facts like these & more at our free screening of A Plastic Ocean this Thursday at @patagonia Vancouver! RSVP: https://t.co/5PGhYaGvgH https://t.co/kriCMeA1Ka
— Nada (@nadagrocery) June 6, 2017
The get it so much that they’re promoting tonight’s screening of A Plastic Ocean in Vancouver. And they’re demonstrating what makes them awesome as a market.
You can RSVP here, it’s free!
Ultimately, when people are harmonizing and optimizing their work-life-vocation-volunteering balance, which is the core of Path Consulting, it’s easy to skip the straws. It’s easy to align our working lives with our values.
And organizationally, when we have a pretty high bar for progressive values that improve the world, through a social enterprise or otherwise, it can be pretty simple to ensure our activities and our broad stakeholder relationships do more than just ensure sustainable economic activity!
It’s easy to be impressed with Zero Waste Market. I was last month. And you will be too.
Go see the screening tonight. And begin the trend among your people to make “no straw please” go viral!
I’m at ebStrategy.org.