The new COP Postcard

What`s behind? This is more than just a nice picture of Cotillo Beach. This postcard comes with a message. On the backside you will find some facts about the duration of litter in the environment. For example, if you drop a cigarette butt on the beach it will last for 20 years, a plastic lighter needs 100 years to vanish and a nappie will still be there in 1000 years!
So next time you go to the beach, think about it. Bring a bag with you and collect your litter. And when you leave and you come across a plastic bag, a can of coke or other stuff, pick it up. It will make a difference! You can get the new Cleanoceanproject postcard in our shops at the harbour of Cotillio and Corralejo. Enjoy the ocean!

Hardgreen

We think it is time for a big bang! We call it "Hardgreen"! The first Hardgreen T-Shirt is dedicated to all the people out there who still throw their cigarette butts wherever they go. Why are they doing it? Do they just don`t know what they`re doing? Do they think it is cool, like in an american movie? Or do they just give a shit on everything? We do not give a shit! From now on once in a while we will come up with some straight unfiltered words. Watch out!

That`s the way.

Different colour, different litter!
This is not the Canarian Islands. It is Portugal, where you can seperate your litter and than drop it - right on the beach. That`s a smart thing to do. So as long we do not have this kind of system overhere, the only thing we can do is take our litter home and seperate it there.

Take a deep breath!

A very impressive movie! With a very simple idea!

Have a nice shower!

It will all come back!

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Due to the latest massive polluiton in the San Francisco Bay, this video is even more than ever up to date.

15. Oktober 2007 - Blog Action Day

An exciting day!Today all around the world Blogger join to put an important issue on everyone`s mind, the environment. Ofcourse we promote this campaign. It is about taking care, making a decision how to treat nature, how to save resources. Our philosophy is: Do your bit! Be part of it! Check out blogactionday.org

Odyseey 2007 - A plastic bag in space!

The Environmental Organisation "Worldwatch" estimate that each year more than 500 Billion plastic bags are produced! One of it even reached the space. An Astronaut on the Spaceship "Atlantis" one day had quite an absurd view when he looked out of the window - a plastic bag was floating by.










At first this sounds funny, but than it is alarming! The triumphal procession of the plastic bag is on its peak. In the developing countries the bags are becoming a common thing. In South Africa they call it the national flower, because coloured plastic frazzles are all over the place. Even in the famous National Park "Massai Mara" acacia trees are decorated with them.











Their impact to the fauna is worse, on land and in the water. One Million seabirds and over 100.000 seals die every year. The plastic contaminates the water so masses of albatrosses get poisend. And even in the Artic plasticbags are everywhere, endanger mammals like the polar bear. And there is another danger, the bags plugging the drainage pits in the cities causing serious floddings, giving malaria a perfect ground to breed.
The impact on both, humans and nature is obviuos, so what can we do? Uganda and Kenia will implement this year a high tax on thin plastic bags, the thick bin liner will be banned totally. In Spring 2008 they will be banned in big Supermarkets and Drugstores in the area of San Francisco. In Singapore they have a different approach by starting a campaign called "bring your own bag". Plastic bags needs 1000 years to vanish, they break down into tiny toxic little bits, polluting our soils, river, lakes and oceans, while countless animals needlessy die each year!
STOP IT! Check out reusablebags.com, you can find useful tips how to change your daily routine for e.g. while you go shopping.

Check this out!

A nice webpage. A simple message. And a funny game. There are little things each of us can do to save water and energy. All it needs is to break our daily routine. Check out hazalgo

Blossoms?

This is the Northshore near Cotillo in October. A beautiful landscape covered with white spots. What is it, Blossoms, snowflakes or an a piece of art? Not really. And, will it be like this next Summer, too?