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BLUE Pledges - Page 9IntroductionRead the BLUE Pledges below: "I'll pick up plastic from the beach, take my cigarette ends home with me and do whatever I can to help keep our beaches clean whilst there." Laura Packer - Frequent Beach Goer. Cornwall UK "I pledge to always be on the look out for novel and interesting ways to promote marine science education to a wide audience. Plus I am also about to get a wormery to help cut down on the waste my family produces." Tim O'Hare - Senior Lecturer in Ocean Science, UoP. Plymouth, UK "I will do everything I can to encourage suport for proper management of our marine environment in a sustainable way whereever I can through Exe Estuary Partnership, Devon Wildlife Trust membership, RSPB Membership and whereever I have influence." John Wokersien - Exmouth Town Clerk. Exmouth, UK "Full time bicycle commuter including winter. If I cannot ride (which is rare now, one or two days a year have too much snow) I am within walking distance and walk both ways. I love weather so it is a joy any time. My partner bicycles or busses everyday. Taxi cabs for groceries cheeper than car insurance. We have two cars and have parked them since crisis." Rocky Applegate - Bicycle Mechanic & Environmentalist since 1970. Colorado, USA "I pledge to ride my bike or use public transport." Deborah - Nursing Student. USA "I pledge to recycle as much house hold rubbish as I possible can, to grow my own vegtables, to use a compost bin and a water butt to collect and reuse rain water." Teresa Page - BLUE Project Manager/Administrator. Cornwall, UK "I am going to go on planting trees." Hilary Benn MP - Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. London, UK "Congratulations BLUE Project. I pledge to do a BLUE mile (above water) in 2009." Tessa Jowell MP - Olympics Minister. London, UK "I am not going to buy any more bottled water." Lady Pippa Blake - Artist and Patron of the BLUE Climate and Oceans Project. Hants, UK "I will not take plastic bags and will buy biodegradable washing products." James Hooper - 180 Degrees Adventurer & BLUE Ambassador. UK "I am going to tell thousands of young people to join me in recycling your personal carbon footprints." Rob Gauntlet - 180 Degrees Adventurer & BLUE Ambassador. UK "I pledge to awyas collect litter wherever and whenever I sail." Ian Morfett - Director. Hants, UK "Our seas are our future." D Turner MP - Minister. London, UK "I will support and drive all clean up initiatives in Dahab and encourage and motivate change by using cotton shopping bags and reducing my bottle water waste. Through my diving, I will raise awareness of how easy it is to be BLUE." Sara Campbell - Freediver and BLUE Ambassador. Dahab, Egypt "I just started working in the lab of a major hospital, and was amazed at how much recyclable plastics and paper we go through, and I kept asking where the recycling bins are. They don't have any! I am going to get the hospital to be open to recycling all these things that we go through by the dozens every week (and that's just MY dept. It's a big place! That's MY pledge, even thougt I can be there to present them to your House of Commons, but I will present it to the administrators at our hospital." Anne Dare - Cytotechnologist. Albony, Oregon, USA "I will sell everything i don't need and live the simple life, I will live off the grid, and I will take up ocean rowing to help raise awareness." Robert - Surveyor. West Coast of the USA "I pledge to recycle, ride my bike more, eat less and take up no space when I die." Todd Thedell - Teacher. Olympia, USA "I continue to point out to my two grandsons, and canoe partners, about the need to reduce garbage and to pick up after ourselves. I also explain, while paddling, the need to preserve nature and everything that shares a spot within our planet together." Gregory West - ORCKA Flatwater Canoe Instructor. Ontario, CANADA "I have made the pledge to buy local goods as much as I can. To stop using disposable cups/bags, to increase recycling output and reduce trash just being thrown away." Michelle (Aurora) - Technical Specialist. Minnesota, USA "I pledge to recycle all of my unwanted paper, cans, etc. If I see any trash in the ocean, I'll pick it up and recycle it if it is able to be recycled. We have a beautiful world, and I would hate to see it filled with trash." Kevin - 7th Grader. North America "Continue to pick up litter while backpacking and scuba diving, encourage family and friends to start a recycling program for plastics, metals and paper. Give up bottle water for good." Slim Parkens - Retired Facilities Engineer Inspired by Roz Savage. USA "Use reusable, cloth grocery bags. We just changed two more lights in our house to CFL. The only non-CFL lights we have are 10 small-wattage bulbs in ceiling fans and three small lights in our entry way. Everything else (bathroom, diningroom, kitchen, livingroom, bedrooms, outside) is CFL. As soon as they come out with dimable CFL or cheaper LEDs, we'll swap out our remaining 13 bulbs." Jesse Johnson - Father and Husband. California, USA "I will continue to recycle my paper,plastic and glass and also avoid wasting food." Graham Pollard - Retired. Luxembourg "I pledge to Bike to work at least 4 days a week this summer." Ben Vandre - IT Professional. USA |
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