Category: Environmental Education

Picked up these cigarette butts just on the step by the beach! Cigarettes take between 18 months and 10 years to decompose!! Come on people, do better. Be better! Throw your stompies in the bin!! Roughly 4.5 trillion cigarette filters pollute our oceans, rivers, city sidewalks, parks, soil and beaches every year!! Cigarette butts leach READ MORE

So why the sudden heat waves around the world? Here is, what I hope, a simple explanation: The first image is of what a “normal” jet stream should look like. Earth’s four primary jet streams only travel from west to east. Jet streams typically move storms and other weather systems from west to east. BUT READ MORE

Fellow Fishie lovers, I need to ask your opinion and vent a bit, so please excuse the long post. So a climate-related page (I’m leaving names out) posted about the recent heat waves and how the jet streams are affecting it. The post was quite technical so me, wanting to know more, commented this to READ MORE

Dear Johnson’s Skincare and Premier FMCG Pty Ltd (aka Dove) PLEASE. I’m asking nicely. Please remove/recall these plastic blue stick cotton buds from ALL stores! I KNOW there are alternatives. Even my little online store sells ear buds made from bamboo and wood and they are NOT expensive. So I know cost canNOT be an READ MORE

Nurdles, nurdles and more nurdles! They just keep washing up on our shores. Nurdles are tiny plastic pellets, and they are causing devastating damage to our environment and marine life. They blend in with sand and shells. Can you believe the first reported appearance of nurdles on beaches dates back to 1970?! Nurdles are a READ MORE