Plastic Free Journey

Check out these 14 short videos from global activists, educators, academics, and environmental leaders discussing plastic waste and pollution from various perspectives. Deep insights onto the nature of the global plastic pandemic from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Philippines, Japan, Sweden, and the US. It’s time to turn off the tap of plastic generation!

Videos include:

Von Hernandez, Global Director Break Free From Plastic (Philippines);

Akira Sakano, Zero Waste Japan (Japan);

Khenpo Gyurme Tsutrim, monastic head (Nepal);

Savera Weerasinghe , UNDP Plastics Global Taskforce, Waste Action Lanka (Sri Lanka);

Alison Teal, ‘Female Indian Jones’ and plastic-free clean-seas advocate (USA);

Gian Pietro ‘Peter’ Verza, director of Pyramid Glacial Research lab Sagarmatha Nat. Park Nepal (Italy/Nepal);

Pal Martensson, Let’s Cleanup World, (Sweden);

Taylor Cass Talbott , WIEGO (USA);

Shibu Nair, India Coordinator at GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) (India);

Katharine Owens, Nat Geo Explorer, waste artist, and community learning and engagement specialist (USA);

Alex Jensen, Local Futures (USA/India); Milan Rai, artist, social activist and placemaker (Nepal)

Captain Charles Moore, Algalita Marine Research and Education , discoverer of the North Pacific Gyre 97′ and director Algalita (USA)

Created by Katie Conlon, who has been working with communities across the Himalayas to reduce plastics. She originally thought to make these video shorts as a way to connect the global with the local narratives on plastics, to have a discussion about different scales, regions and modes of action, and how the efforts of people in their local Himalayan town/region is connected to this broader global plastics dialogue and global actions.

All videos on YouTube here

Updates about her Himalayas to Sea, Plastic Free project can also be found on Instagram.

Charter oak Cultural center Show opening this week!

I’m super thrilled to have a show curated by the talented Pierre Sylvain from the Charter Oak Cultural Center. If you’re not familiar with his work, you should check it out. His mosaics are stunning.

Here’s a video of me, Pierre and Raoul hanging the show.

Here’s a brief video of the pieces in the show.

Visit the Charter Oak Cultural Center this Thursday night from 5:30-7:30 for the opening.

Quilters take a moment 2022

I am so honored to be selected as a contributor to the Quilt Alliance‘s 2022 Quilters Take a Moment show Sustaining Threads: Connecting Sustainability in Our Quilts and Our Environment. The amazingly creative curator Laura Hopper selected my community-created piece Minke Whale to be a part of this show. Go check out the other pieces– there are some really amazing works that will change your mind about quilting!

Minke Whale

Mystic Aquarium: Women in Science Day

It was such a treat to return to the annual Mystic Women in Science day to share my Entangled and Ingested project. This time I brought along coloring sheets of a leatherback turtle to share with the kids. It was super fun.

I am always BLOWN AWAY by the Mystic Aquarium when I visit. This time, after sharing my work for the day, I visited the exhibits with my youngest and had a wonderful time. It’s such a beautiful setting and I always enjoy learning more about the ocean and conservation when I visit.

Himalayas to Sea, Plastic Free

So excited to share this project from fellow National Geographic Explorer Katie Conlon, who has been working on the Himalayas to Sea, Plastic Free.

She has been working with communities across the Himalayas to reduce plastics, originally making these videos with plastics experts as a way to connect global and local narratives, to have a discussion about different scales, regions and modes of action, and how the efforts of people in their local Himalayan town/region is connected to the broader global plastics dialogue and global actions. She has created a YouTube Channel with all of the collected videos.

My video will premier on September 9th! Check it out.

You can follow Katie and the project on Instagram