Superpower Stories - eXXpedition

Lucy Gilliam Superpower Story June 7th, 2023

Carol Devine Superpower Story June 1st, 2023

Soraya Abdel-Hadi Superpower Story May 24th, 2023

Claire McCluskey Superpower Story May 17th, 2023

Stella Marina Stabbins Superpower Story February 22nd, 2023

Natascha Glanzer-Fuerst Superpower Story February 15th, 2023

Geraldine Le Roux Superpower Story February 8th, 2023

Nikkey Dawn Superpower Story January 25th, 2023

Sofía Nogués Superpower Story January 18th, 2023

Claudia Haltern Superpower Story September 27th, 2022

Deborah Maw Superpower Story August 24th, 2022

Tharaka Sriram Superpower Story August 17th, 2022

Natalie Fox Superpower Story August 15th, 2022

Sasha Francis Superpower Story April 19th, 2022

Katie Redfern Superpower Story April 4th, 2022

Jen Wilks Superpower Story March 21st, 2022

Erica Cirino Superpower Story March 8th, 2022

Karey Billyard Superpower Story October 6th, 2021

Natasha Pergl Superpower Story September 29th, 2021

Kirana Agustina Superpower Story September 22nd, 2021

Juliet Carvalhal Superpower Story September 15th, 2021

Lindsey McCoy Superpower Story September 8th, 2021

La Daana Kanhai Superpower Story September 1st, 2021

Tavake Pakomio (Tavi) Superpower Story August 24th, 2021

AMBASSADOR STORIES | SIRI October 12th, 2020

AMBASSADOR STORIES | MEG TAPP September 30th, 2020

AMBASSADOR STORIES | MICHELLE April 3rd, 2020

AMBASSADOR STORIES | EMILY March 20th, 2020

AMBASSADOR STORIES | KRISTINE March 13th, 2020

AMBASSADOR STORIES | ROWAN March 6th, 2020

Blue Love January 21st, 2020

Science, art & fieldwork: eXXpedition ambassador on a communication mission July 31st, 2019

Introducing refills: Canadian ambassador Rachel tackling plastic in her community June 21st, 2019

eXXpedition Co-Founder Becomes Sky Ocean Rescue Ambassador June 20th, 2018

Meet eXXpedition scientist Oksana Lane September 5th, 2017

Alaska: Where the Wild Plastics Are May 20th, 2016

Meet Jen Pate March 16th, 2016

SpainNOW ArtCOP21exhibition by Maria Arceo November 24th, 2015

Larger than Us August 18th, 2015

Exploration to the Gyres August 13th, 2015

A Sea Change | ONCA July 22nd, 2015

eXXpedition Director and Sea Dragon Skipper Emily Penn at TedXEastEnd February 25th, 2015

It’s been fantastic seeing what our partners in

It’s been fantastic seeing what our partners in Maldives have been up to recently.

Now in the final stages of preparation for the stakeholder meeting later this year, Dr Shazla Mohamed and her team from Maldives National University have been busy collecting data from across Malé. With this, we’ll be able to get a better understanding of the current situation of the volume and types of plastic pollution and the primary sources. Transect surveys are a crucial tool for collecting data to drive change at both a community and industry level.

We’re excited to dive deeper into the results and see what they’ve found!

📸 : @parleymaldives

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It’s not necessarily about everybody dedicating

It’s not necessarily about everybody dedicating their entire lives to the cause, or becoming an environmentalist by profession. It’s about an engineer designing a new waste management solution; a chemist developing new materials; a teacher educating the next generation; a policy maker working towards legislation; an artist telling the story better. We all need to find our role and working together.

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✨ Ambassador Superpower Stories Update ✨ We l

✨ Ambassador Superpower Stories Update ✨

We love nothing more than seeing the amazing impact our ambassadors are having across the world!

Over the next few weeks we are going to be sharing some of these stories - and we’re kicking it off with Kristine Berg.

Since joining her first voyage with us in the North Pacific in 2018, Kristine has gone on to have an incredible impact - not just in her career but in her personal life too!

As the Sustainability Manager at TOMRA, Kristine works with them to transform how we all obtain, use, and reuse the planet’s resources. With so many great minds joining forces, TOMRA is leading the way to create a world without waste, setting a prime example for other leaders in the industry.

Kristine is also responsible for leading their global cleanup events every year. Last year, TOMRA colleagues picked up more than 75,000 litter pieces globally!

Outside of her role, Kristine has of course done a lot more sailing - including sailing competitively with an incredible all female team, sailing across the North Sea and she even sailed from the Norwegian coast all the way to the Lofoten Islands on a whale research and education mission.

In 2020 Kristine was also part of a ‘Trashion shoot’ for the annual national telethon, which as you can see from the pictures was a powerful way to both raise awareness and funds for WWF and their work on tackling plastic pollution!

And if all this wasn’t already amazing enough, when Kristine is at home she is also an active member of a regenerative & organic garden community in Oslo, which encourages individuals to learn to be more self-sustained and rely on local, seasonal resources, with reduced reliance on packaged foods.

It’s so inspiring to be able to share and celebrate these achievements within our community and see the many ripple effects still happening from your individual experiences!

If you have new ambassador impact you’d like to share, send us a DM!

📸: Tord Karlsen, @tomracollection, Vibeke Glosli, Pippip Ferner (Artist)

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The findings are in! Last week our Maldives SHiFT

The findings are in!

Last week our Maldives SHiFT Leadership Programme participants set out to conduct a 100 metre transect of their local areas. Logging what they found on the @debristracker as they went, noting it’s location and material, they were able to get a better idea of what items make up the waste in their area.

Needless to say that even though each survey area was only 100 metres, plastic was still found in abundance. Now the challenge is to figure out what we can all do about it!

With our final session still to come, participants are making individual action plans based on their unique superpowers to figure, to target the plastic pollution at the source in their community.

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Last week we kicked off the first sessions of our

Last week we kicked off the first sessions of our Maldives SHiFT Leadership Programme! We had so many incredible participants and it was a great to learn more about them and what motivated them to join us, so we thought we would take the opportunity to introduce them and their superpowers to you all to you too!

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Azhoora Ahmed @azhooraahmed - Inspire Manager for @sonevanamoona

Ali Shareef @ayu.jie - Community Outreach Coordinator for @maldivesunderwaterinitiative

Khady Hamid @‌KhadyHamid - Reduce Manager for @‌SonevaNamoona

Zana Shiraz @‌ZanaShiraz - Assistant Marine Research Officer for @‌MMRI_Maldives

Afaaz Zahid @a_childofthesea - Resort Researcher and Fisheries Officer for @maldivesresilientreefs

Ihusana Hamid - State Attorney for Attorney General's Office

Iqbal Hameed - Consultant, ADH. for Dhidhdhoo Council

Mariyam Samha - Environment Analyst for the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology

Aishath Shaira - Assistant Professor at @maldivesnationaluniversity , Faculty of Science and Engineering and Technology (FEST)

Ifasha Abbas Ibrahim - Assistant Council Officer for Secretariat of the Ukulhas Council

What’s your superpower? Let us know in the comments!

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As an organisation, one of our biggest assets is t

As an organisation, one of our biggest assets is the community we’ve created. Over the years we have brought together ambassadors from almost every corner of the world, with a huge diversity of jobs, skills and passions! Not only has this formed into an empowering and supportive community but has helped us to harness our biggest weapon in fighting plastic pollution - people!

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Excited to have the amazing @jennajambeck and her

Excited to have the amazing @jennajambeck and her team at @universityofga with us for Maldives SHiFT!

Jenna was on board the inaugural eXXpedition Atlantic in 2014 and we have been collaborating with her, and using her Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP), ever since. She heads up UGA's Circularity Informatics Lab, is a pioneer in assessing circular materials management, and has advised on waste management policy all over the world.

Jenna and her team will be working with our local partners to gather data and provide insights for decision makers to implement solutions to tackle plastic pollution.

Next week Kathryn Youngblood, from Jenna’s team, will be joining us on Instagram Live to discuss her role in the project and tell us a little more about CAP!

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Introducing Maldives 🏝️ Maldives, a unique i

Introducing Maldives 🏝️

Maldives, a unique island nation, is made up of 1,190 coral islands spanning 510 miles across the Indian Ocean!

Though considered by many as a luxury holiday destination, the diversity of atolls across the country vary significantly. More than half of the population is considered rural, with only about 20 of the islands having more than 1,000 inhabitants. Male, is one of the exceptions, as a relatively large settlement in the country and is where we are initially going to be launching ‘Maldives SHiFT’.

Since the 1970s the economy of the Maldives, and tourism, has developed rapidly. Sadly however, without the sufficient waste management and infrastructure, there are overwhelming challenges - including plastic pollution.

Despite this, Maldives is a pioneering country that continuously overcomes different challenges and obstacles, which is one of the biggest reasons we are so excited to work alongside this nation! Our mission with this programme is to use the SHiFT framework to provide data to inform decision‐making, to develop leadership at a community level, and to bring together key stakeholders to ultimately reduce leakage of single‐use plastic into the environment and increase circular materials management.

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Maldives SHiFT is a project in collaboration with @universityofga @commonwealth_sec @cefasgovuk @defrauk @mdvinuk

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Great to see our founder, @missemilypenn, joining

Great to see our founder, @missemilypenn, joining @kielerwochesailing in Schilksee yesterday for a beach clean!

In only 45 minutes they collected a shocking 830 pieces of trash - 120 of them were cigarette butts and more than 80 pieces of plastic fragments...

With still so much work to do in order to stop plastic washing up on our shorelines, these events are a fantastic way to spread awareness and give communities first hand experience of the plastic crisis!

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Applications for our Maldives SHiFT Leadership Pro

Applications for our Maldives SHiFT Leadership Programme are now open!

Are you resident in Maldives and looking to take your leadership to tackle plastic pollution to the next level?

We are looking for a range of participants – from island councils to government representatives, fishermen to teachers - to join a 5 part virtual programme using online interactive tools (Mural and Zoom) to delve into the plastics problem, navigate solutions and leave with an action plan.

The workshops will take place on the 28th, & 29th July, and 4th, 5th & 25th August 2023. There will be no cost to join the programme if offered a place.

Apply via the link in our bio, before the closing date of 3rd July 🙌

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