Merry Christmas!

The school semester has come to an end and this will be the last blog post. For now......
Thank you to the (still) handful of people that read my blog, I appreciate it. I hope you all learned something and took it to heart to start making a change. National Geographic has great articles on their website about planet or plastic, so I suggest you read it sometimes. It's free.....

Here is a little summary video about planet or plastic. My christmas gift for you.....enjoy



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