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Plastic Free Summer Solutions August 2nd, 2023

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

Local Partner in Maldives Required May 9th, 2023

8th International Day of Women & Girls in Science February 10th, 2023

Geraldine Le Roux Superpower Story February 8th, 2023

Laura Leiva Superpower Story February 1st, 2023

Nikkey Dawn Superpower Story January 25th, 2023

Sofía Nogués Superpower Story January 18th, 2023

North Atlantic Gyre Research Paper Author Event January 12th, 2023

In Conversation with Dr. Winnie Courtene-Jones January 11th, 2023

Plastic-Free Festivities December 15th, 2022

Restoring Redonda : A story of resilience, hope and collaboration November 22nd, 2022

Organising Your Own Expedition October 10th, 2022

7th International Marine Debris Conference, Busan 2022 October 4th, 2022

Cleaner Cosmetics October 3rd, 2022

Claudia Haltern Superpower Story September 27th, 2022

Surprising Recycling Guide September 14th, 2022

The Power of the Written Word September 5th, 2022

Back to School Plastic-Free Guide with SHiFT August 30th, 2022

Deborah Maw Superpower Story August 24th, 2022

Reducing Plastic in the Workplace with SHiFT August 22nd, 2022

Tharaka Sriram Superpower Story August 17th, 2022

Natalie Fox Superpower Story August 15th, 2022

5 Inspired Plastic-Alternatives for Kids July 21st, 2022

Using Photography to Generate Change July 11th, 2022

The Basics of Campaign Building July 4th, 2022

How to Tell Your Story to Inspire Others into Action June 27th, 2022

How to tell Environmental Stories on Film June 23rd, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Arctic Dialogue May 25th, 2022

We’re Hiring: Communications Assistant May 20th, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Caribbean Dialogue May 11th, 2022

Westman Atelier COMES ON BOARD TO SUPPORT EXXPEDITION May 5th, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Brazil Dialogue April 26th, 2022

Sasha Francis Superpower Story April 19th, 2022

Virtual Voyage: South Africa Dialogue April 12th, 2022

Thought Leadership from TOMRA April 1st, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Australia Dialogue March 29th, 2022

Jen Wilks Superpower Story March 21st, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Vanuatu Dialogue March 15th, 2022

Erica Cirino Superpower Story March 8th, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Fiji Dialogue March 3rd, 2022

Are alternative plastics the solution to plastic pollution? March 1st, 2022

Virtual Voyage: Tonga Talanoa February 17th, 2022

Fighting Plastic Waste in a Time of COVID January 27th, 2022

Using Technology to Create Change… Digital Mapping January 21st, 2022

Using Technology to Create Change… Marine Debris Tracker January 12th, 2022

How to Write a Children’s Book December 17th, 2021

How to Create Art From Ocean Plastic and Litter December 2nd, 2021

What Are Nurdles and Why Should You Care? November 22nd, 2021

Tips for Generating Great Media Coverage November 17th, 2021

Starting your own citizen science project… and your own foundation November 10th, 2021

Starting your own citizen science project… using The Great Nurdle Hunt November 3rd, 2021

11TH HOUR RACING: #CHOOSEMAGIC October 27th, 2021

Using Art to Inspire Change October 26th, 2021

How to Reach the Unreachables October 14th, 2021

eXXpedition Round the World Wrap Up Celebration October 7th, 2021

Karey Billyard Superpower Story October 6th, 2021

Natasha Pergl Superpower Story September 29th, 2021

Kirana Agustina Superpower Story September 22nd, 2021

eXXpedition Round the World Caribbean Research Discussion September 17th, 2021

Juliet Carvalhal Superpower Story September 15th, 2021

Lindsey McCoy Superpower Story September 8th, 2021

La Daana Kanhai Superpower Story September 1st, 2021

Meeting the next generation of changemakers in Antigua August 20th, 2021

eXXpedition’s Virtual Voyages through the South Pacific! July 29th, 2021

CLOSED: We’re Hiring! July 9th, 2021

11th Hour Racing Supports eXXpedition Ocean Ambassador Community July 7th, 2021

Science, technology and expeditions with Perkin Elmer June 25th, 2021

Nona Supports eXXpedition as a 1% For The Planet Donor June 24th, 2021

Sea-Sisters June 10th, 2021

Nicholas Kirkwood to support eXXpedition June 8th, 2021

Diary of a Virtual Voyage: Tonga June 4th, 2021

Sirens of The Sea Film May 11th, 2021

Commonwealth joins forces with all-women sailing crew to fight plastic pollution April 17th, 2021

Innovation in Bioplastics as an Alternative to Single-use Plastics April 1st, 2021

eXXpedition Partners with the Commonwealth March 20th, 2021

How Can Caribbean Nations Tackle Waste Washing Ashore? March 17th, 2021

EyeBuyDirect Supports eXXpedition March 15th, 2021

Paddle Logger Supports eXXpedition with 1% For The Planet March 8th, 2021

HOW TO CREATE CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA March 4th, 2021

Crew Conducts a Waste Management Survey January 27th, 2021

AMBASSADOR STORIES | SIRI October 12th, 2020

Plastic Washing Ashore in Galapagos October 8th, 2020

AMBASSADOR STORIES | MEG TAPP September 30th, 2020

World Cleanup Day 2020 September 21st, 2020

Sky Ocean Rescue x Emily Penn July 30th, 2020

Unravelling Logistics June 19th, 2020

SHiFT Platform Launch June 8th, 2020

Using Recycled Plastic to Help Fight Coronavirus in Curacao June 1st, 2020

Meet the Pro Crew: Round the World First Mate May 27th, 2020

Meet The Pro Crew: Round The World Skipper May 10th, 2020

We Are All in The Same Boat May 4th, 2020

The Imperfect Sailor and Imperfect Activist April 4th, 2020

Whale Poo and You March 27th, 2020

Reflections on Simplicity March 26th, 2020

Learning Each Other’s Depth In the Depth of the South Pacific March 24th, 2020

Shifting to a New Normal – 5 things we learned from sailing the South Pacific March 23rd, 2020

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

#maldivesshift #maldives #shift #exxpedition #Partner #Maldivesnationaluniversity #maldivesparley #superpowers #solutions #seatosource #solutionfocused #changemakers #createchange #ourocean #plasticpollution #oceanplastics #microplastics #wastemanagement #research

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.

#problemsolving #eXXpedition #womeninscience #womeninstem #plasticpollution #changemakers #oceanplastics #microplastics #womenwhosail #marinescience #marineresearch

✨ 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)

#superpowers #inspiringwomen #exxpedition #plasticpollution #positivechange #seatosource #changemakers #microplastics #createchange #empoweringwomen #community

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.

#maldivesshift #maldives #shift #exxpedition #leadershiprogramme #superpowers #solutions #seatosource #solutionfocused #changemakers #createchange #ourocean #plasticpollution #oceanplastics #microplastics #wastemanagement #research

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!

#maldivesshift #maldives #shift #exxpedition #leadershiprogramme #superpowers #solutions #seatosource #solutionfocused #changemakers #createchange #ourocean #plasticpollution #oceanplastics #microplastics #wastemanagement #research

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!

#eXXpedition #womeninscience #womeninstem #plasticpollution #changemakers #oceanplastics #microplastics #womenwhosail #marinescience #marineresearch

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!

#CAP #universityofgeorgia #marinedebris #maldivesshift #maldives #shift #exxpedition #solutions #seatosource #solutionfocused #changemakers #ourocean #plasticpollution #oceanplastics #microplastics #marinescience #marineresearch #createchange #oceanleadership #circularity #circulareconomy

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

#maldivesshift #maldives #shift #exxpedition #solutions #seatosource #solutionfocused #changemakers #createchange #ourocean #plasticpollution #oceanplastics #microplastics #wastemanagement #research #circulareconomy #BluePlanetFund

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!

#exxpedition #emilypenn #beachclean #plasticpollution #schilksee #kielerwoche #microplastic #changemakers #positivechange #solutionfocused #beachevent #createchange

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 🙌

#leadership #virtual #opportunity #maldivesshift #maldives #shift #exxpedition #solutions #seatosource #solutionfocused #changemakers #createchange #ourocean #plasticpollution #oceanplastics #microplastics #marinescience #marineresearch

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