A Vital Paddling Tool...

GuideLines - The Float Plan: A Vital Paddling Tool.

Years ago, when I took the US Coast Guard Auxiliary-- Safe Boating Course, filing a boating plan with someone was a safety measure that makes sense.  It's about letting someone know where you're going, how long you're going to be out and your estimated time of return.  Then if things happen and they do, there is someone available to help or alert authorities.

Airplane pilots have checklist and one necessity is filing a flight plan.  Safe boating requires the same thing...

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff

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Annie Leonard is the author and host of our very own The Story of Stuff. She is author of The Story of Stuff, the book, published by Free Press of Simon and Schuster on March 9, 2010.

Annie has spent nearly two decades investigating and organizing on environmental health and justice issues. She has traveled to 40 countries, visiting literally hundreds of factories where our stuff is made and dumps where our stuff is dumped. Witnessing first hand the horrendous impacts of both over- and under- consumption around the world, Annie is fiercely dedicated to reclaiming and transforming our industrial and economic systems so they serve, rather than undermine, ecological sustainability and social equity...


I urge any reader of this to visit her site via the links above and educate or re-educate yourself about our environment and our STUFF...