Inspired by Others

Iron Heart Winery - Adam Fariss, owner of Iron Heart Winery, is a man after our own hearts – a take action person who grew up picking up litter as a family. Once you pick up litter, not only would you never do so yourself, and might even call out others who do, but you can’t un-notice it. He saw an increase in roadside …
No Straw November - Shelby O’Neil not only earned her Girl Scouts Gold Award, she started a movement! We had long avoided single use plastic straws among most other disposable items. But with Shelby’s advocacy for legislative and cultural change, now we aren’t just over-the-top weird about conservation, we are mainstream. Give up your plastic straws for a month and you can give them …
Gus Vandermeeren - Gus Vandermeeren, a computer programmer at Meredith College in our hometown of Raleigh, NC, was already connected with our family via a NextDoor group, called Citizens For Clean Communities. He leads litter clean-ups in South Raleigh while we do so in North Raleigh. Despite collection efforts of our large family plus volunteers we recruit, his collection efforts dwarf our own. …
Rwanda - It was only 1994 when Rwanda suffered a massive genocide by armed militias killing more than 1,000,000 people in approximately 100 days. Despite this horror, Rwanda is still among the most densely populated countries in Africa but today is also the cleanest country on the continent. Imagine?! In those same 27 years of comparative peace and prosperity, the USA has …