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Hi und guten Morgen,

vielleicht interessiert das jemanden.

Grüße Jens

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Von: "Michael O'Heaney, Story of Stuff" <inbox AT storyofstuff.org>
Datum: 1. März 2015 18:02:44 MEZ
An: Jens Müller <Muller44 AT mail.de>
Betreff: Support our new movie!
Antwort an: "Michael O'Heaney, Story of Stuff" <inbox AT storyofstuff.org>

Story of Stuff Project

Dear Jens,

The Story of Stuff Project wants to make a movie that will blow the cover off the growing microbead pollution problem.

We need to raise $10,000 to make our new movie a reality. Donate to make this story go viral until the mess is cleaned up.
 

Let's Make a Movie!

Thousands of Story of Stuff Community members like you responded to our 2015 Members Poll and we’re blown away by your vision and passion for change!

You told us loud and clear that you want us to keep telling compelling stories about big problems—and their solutions—and then help local communities make big change.

And right now, we need your help with a great opportunity to put this plan into action.

Today, there’s a big fight brewing over microbeads, the tiny bits of plastic that companies are putting in everything from body scrubs to toothpaste. These plastic beads escape most water treatment systems, and scientists believe the toxins they absorb along the way may be building up in the bodies of fish, marine mammals, and even humans.

Gross, right?

Microbeads, while tiny in size, are becoming the center of a really big story, a story that some of the world’s largest corporations don’t want people like you and me to know.

You see, for decades the plastics people have been telling us plastic pollution is our fault, not theirs. They say, “you shouldn’t litter; you should recycle,” but with microbeads, the plastics they create are designed to go down the drain!

So the Story of Stuff Project and our partners have been fighting for strong legislation in more than a dozen key U.S. states to ban the use of plastic microbeads altogether. In short, we have an incredible opportunity this year to solve this problem.

When 20,000 of our Community members confronted Johnson & Johnson and others with this problem last year they agreed to phase out the use of microbeads. But they won’t tell us what they plan to use instead, and truthfully, we don’t trust them.

We can win - but we need your help.

First, we want to produce a new short video about microplastic pollution, exposing a problem these companies would rather keep under wraps. Our video will be short and to the point: if it’s not natural, it’s not acceptable.

The video will cost about $10,000 to make, so please pitch in to get it done.

Next, we’ll be launching a boots-on-the-ground campaign in multiple states to challenge our governments to address the problem head-on, led by our new Campaigns Director Stiv Wilson.

Stiv was one of the first environmentalists to discover microbeads, during a research expedition in the Great Lakes, and he’s been fighting to get them out of production ever since. Now he’s joined our team in no small part because of the power our 800,000 Community members can bring to bear.

Already, legislation has been introduced in California, Minnesota, Hawaii, Illinois, New York and elsewhere. Stiv will be looking to our members in these states and around the world to put the pressure on at key moments.

Are you in?

We believe that our unique storytelling abilities, combined with your passion and willingness to act, make us a force to be reckoned with. And the companies know it, which is why they’re pulling out all the stops to muddy the issue and delay action.

The corporations profiting from plastic pollution have immense resources, but we believe public resolve to create a clean and healthy society is stronger. With Community members like you joining forces with others around the world, we can challenge corporations and governments to clean up their act.

Please contribute today - together we can protect our water, and our health, for generations to come.

For our entire team,

Michael O'Heaney
Executive Director 

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