Plastics, Clean Water. Innovative Strategies Meet Environmental Concerns + Ethics

Blue Ribbon Water is a company that provides water purification systems that provide contaminant reduction of water that comes from our faucets.   A few weeks ago I saw an offer from their company to receive a free water quality report - that caught my attention -Their query: "What's in Your Water?  *Get your free report by visiting their website here: www.blueribbonwater.com".   

The second point of contact:  Blue Ribbon Water offered free tickets to the local cinema, The Screening Room in Newburyport, MA. to see the movie which some of you may have seen or heard of,  titled Dark Waters.   (2019.  Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway ).
   

  Friends and followers of my Facebook page, Environmental Watershed Awareness group suggested Dark Waters' as a 'good' movie. I received a free ticket from Blue Ribbon Water  and attended the showing - on the Winter solstice 2019. I mention that only because this is a standard time when we all appreciate the shortest day of the year. Not unnoticed from my environmental observation that our days - without change - are limiting the longevity of our Earth. The movie celebrates the tenacious courage and drive of attorney, Robert Bilott, an American environmental attorney from Ohio. Bilott known for the lawsuits against DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs from West Virginia. Bilott spent more than twenty years litigating hazardous dumping of the chemicals Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). (played by Mark Ruffalo) Notably the movie portrays the lack of accountability of one of the largest corporations in the world. It was truly a devastating movie to me I will say, because it amplifies the importance that we each carry quite a serious societal responsiblity to do something, in spite of insurmountable odds of deregulation, increased used of consumables, all of this increasing the odds of cancer-causing agents in our water supply. 

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     I was a college student at Colorado State University when I applied for and received an opportunity to work in the Colorado legislature as an intern with CoPIRG.  That was 1981 and my first introduction to the existing and real stress that existed between caring for the environment, and in Colorado the local industry issues of mining waste.  Here is where the rubber met the road for me as I bore witness to the meeting of corporate interests and responsibility to stake holders as it directly related to the local health of populations, not only of people but weighing in environmental concerns as well.  That was in the early 1980's.

    These days we take a lot for granted - how much has been discovered - and yet we still have so much to learn about pollution in our common waterways.  Plastics is an extraordinary life-threatening problem for example  Ocean Garbage Patch Plagues Island Sanctuary.

   Two projects are ongoing for me as a result of my building awareness around the importance of water.  One is a personal project titled Ocean Dreams and Whale Songs.  And another, as curator for an exhibit on water by several artists, and located at CI Works in Amesbury, Massachusetts.  *See more on this exhibit here:
(Christopher Brown, Ron Quinn, Deborah Ogden, Marc Barker, Jack Fowler, David Saums, Kenneth Nicosia, plus added artists on exhibit regarding issues of the environment, + local views on place.)

    In this way Art. Tech. Innovation.  is in principle seeking understanding for how to create prosperous economies without the devaluation of the principle base of resources that heat our homes, manufacture all goods and services we provide, while also keeping center point of focus on preservation of ethics, health and functionality.  Not just for humankind but all life on the planet.

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