{"id":1750,"date":"2014-01-30T22:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2014-01-30T22:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:07:41","slug":"first-hand-experience-with-plastic-by-roz-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"First-hand Experience with Plastic by Roz Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1751\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1751 alignleft\" title=\"roz photo\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roz-photo-150x150.png\" alt=\"roz photo\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>I met British ocean rower and environmental campaigner Roz Savage at a San Francisco fundraising dinner over five years ago.\u00a0 It was fairly early on in her campaign &#8220;to bring us all together, by rowing by herself across our oceans for  our planet and to demonstrate how we can change things, one stroke at a  time.&#8221; I was very inspired by the lifestyle choices she had made and her commitment to a life purpose not to mention the courage it takes to row single handed across oceans.\u00a0\u00a0 And she rowed across three &#8211; Atlantic, Pacific and Indian! Last September when the opportunity came up to interview Roz I leaped and with cameraman, David Okimoto, interviewed her at the Aquarium of the Bay.\u00a0 Now I can share her story with you.<\/p>\n<p>Roz Savage talks about plastic pollution, often called a &#8220;man-made global  catastrophe,&#8221; in the context of her first-hand experience as she rowed, solo, from San Francisco to Hawaii on the  first stage of her Pacific Ocean crossing. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/images\/rozhawaii.png\" alt=\"Roz Savage\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" \/>Meeting  up with the two scientists on the Junk craft, they shared dinner and  their research with Roz several hundred miles east of Hawaii. She gives us the bottom  line &#8211; use less of it &#8211; and calls on each one of us to significantly  reduce our use of plastic and make a positive difference in the world. <strong><span id=\"eow-date\" class=\"watch-video-date\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"watch-video-date\">Visit our newly created EarthSayers.tv special collection on <em>Plastics in Our Oceans<\/em> and view Roz&#8217;s interview <a title=\"Roz Savage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/First-hand_Experience_with_Plastic_in_Our_Oceans_by_Roz_Savage\/76\/25140http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a very inspiring and motivating story from a woman I greatly admire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"watch-video-date\">Roz was in San Francisco with her friend and colleague Howard Lack, CEO of the UK-based Foundation, Plastic Oceans so I was able to interview him as well. You will find him in the same special collection <a title=\"Howard Lack CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/Overview_of_Plastic_Oceans_by_Howard_Lack\/76\/25136http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"watch-video-date\">Ruth Ann Barrett, sustainability advocate, January 31, 2014, Portland, Oregon<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"watch-video-date\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video interview with ocean rower Roz Savage on her first-hand experience with plastics in our oceans. Having successfully rowed SOLO across three oceans, she shares with us the scale of the problem and encourages us to take responsibility to use less. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}