ITA Blog #10- UPDATE: I made a difference....and so can you!!

I made a difference!!

It’s here! This weekend when I got home in Ravenna I found on my desk a special package…

It was my purchase from 4 Ocean!!

The package contained:

·      a postcard with some information on the organization

·      A sticker with the ‘4Ocean’ logo

·      A small card which thanked you for your purchase and for helping the ocean

·      A cute little bag and inside…..the bracelet!

 

 I love it very much…it looks very fashionable and I love the colours…but what I love more is that every time I’m going to look down at my wrist I’ll be thinking about the good action I did helping to clean the ocean…and maybe I’ll pay more attention to how I recycle and to how much trash I consume…it’ll be like a gentle daily reminder!

My sister and I with our new 4ocean bracelets!!

 Today I made a small (yet important) difference in cleaning our oceans and bettering our planet....and so can you!!

Have a great week,

Fennec Fox

ITA Blog #9- 'How can I help?'

Ryan Eggold is Max Goodwin on the series

  ‘How can I help?’.

This is the first thing that Max Goodwin, the new medical director of NewAmsterdam, asks on his first day. And it’s amazing how many lifes he actually changes and improves by listening at the practical suggestions the different doctors have.

 

‘New Amsterdam’ is a new medical drama aired on NBC last autumn (the last episods of season one are actually airing right now). And yeah it’s ANOTHER medical drama. But, this one is different. I’m not saying there is no heartbreaking patient story and miracle doctor action that saves everyone, but what I’m saying is that is not just that.

The main cast of New Amsterdam in their scrubs

First of all this one is inspired by a book: Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer. So there is a precise storyline and deep 360° characters with good and bad sides, just like any human being.

Secondly it has Max. Max is the symbol of hope: he bursts into the hospital and into the life of the doctors there like a tornado, he pushes them to make changes and make them now, he reminds them that their job is to HELP safe the patient’s life, not to have higher paychecks or to get more visibility with a hard case. They are just there to help.

And aren’t we all? Here to help I mean. We have this amazing opportunity of being here on Earth and of sharing our ideas and aspirations with others, connecting with them on so many different levels. Inspire and be inspired. Teach and learn. In an endless cycle.

But we are missing on all of these because we don’t pay attention. We’re too busy, too focused on ‘our lives’, our small and individual everyday experience, that we can’t see others: their problems, their necessities, not even the help they might be trying to give us.

We’re all rushing through life in search of a deeper meaning when, often, this meaning is just in front of us.

Everyone of us should look for its way to help others, to be part of the community, to fill fulfilled in it…this is what happiness is. To be truly happy we should stop thinking about us or our problems all the time, and start asking others….

‘How can I help?’

A simple, straight foward question, that might just change our lives.

Listen to your kid: watch with him Frozen for the 1000th time, help her build the new block castel, read a book together. Listen to your parents: maybe they just need a new pillow or a new grammar program to write their work stuff more easily. Listen to your friends, your relatives, maybe even to strangers….and you will start making a difference (in your life and in that of others).

So if any of you out there is in a bad moment, of even if is not and it’s the best time of your life, or if your life has been a bit busy lately…

‘How can I help?’

Thanks for reading,

I’m always here if you need me

Fennec Fox

P.S.: For anyone of you out there who also feels like making a difference and helping others I will try to put some suggestions at the end of my posts from now on. So how can you help?

BUY a 4ocean BRACELET!!

What is 4Ocean?

The story begins when Alex and Andrew take a surf trip...

to Bali Indonesia that would inevitably change their lives and the fate of the ocean. Devastated by the amount of plastic in the ocean, they set out to find out why no one was doing anything about it. One afternoon they came across an old fishing village where fishermen were literally pushing their boat through piles of plastic that had washed up on shore. The two surfers realized that the proliferation of plastic threatened both the ocean environment and the fishermen's livelihood. Could the fishermen use their nets, they wondered, to pull the plastic from the ocean? This idea stuck with the 2 surfers and they knew it was time to hit the drawing board. 

 

After realizing that the demand for seafood was driving the fishermen to focus on fish instead of plastic, they knew they had to create something that could fund the desired cleanup efforts. This is how the 4ocean Bracelet was born.

Made with recycled materials, every bracelet purchased funds the removal of 1 pound of trash from the ocean and coastlines. In less than 2 years, 4ocean has removed 3.507.216 pounds (and counting) of trash from the ocean and coastlines.

4ocean currently operates out of multiple countries and employs over 150 people worldwide.

  

Why buy a bracelet?

 Pull the next pound!! 

Each bracelet puerchase will remove one pound of trash from the ocean and costlines.

Buying one you'll be helping improve the environment and preserve our beutiful Earth...plus they are sooooo cute!! I bought one for me and my sister and I'll post pictures when they get shipped home!!

They have new special bracelets each month, for different endangered species, and many other items you can purchase to help the cause (SHOP: https://4ocean.com/collections/all-products)

The OCEAN needs us…let’s go!!

For more information visit: 4ocean STORY 4ocean WEBSITE

Thank you so much for making it this far in the post, I’m so excited for what we can all do tegether if we start changing the world around us one step at the time.

Love you all <3