National Television for One Step at a Time!

It all started with a treasure hunt and a bad conscious:

Treasure hunting at Smaakjaeftan, North Cape, Norway

Looking for polished sea glass, weather-worn driftwood and other treasures on this secluded, North Cape beach, I also found this:

And my conscious said, “You can’t just take the pretty things and ignore all this plastic.”  An internal conversation started.  “What can one person do to make a difference in an enormous global problem?” “Will others want to help?” “How can we remove tons of plastic waste from a secluded beach?” “Where to start?”

And the answers came in the form of a project called One Step at a Time.

One Step at a Time:  1,000 Shoes gathered from the coast, used in an art exhibition to help increase awareness about the global problem of ocean pollusion and raise funds to rent boats and clean up remote bays that are full of plastic debris.

Status update:  950 shoes collected by local residents ranging in age from 4 to 75 years old.

I’m thrilled that our community is involved in helping collect the shoes.  In addition, local, regional and national media channels have also been interested in the project.

This past week I was honored to be asked to share about the project on national television.  Here’s the link if you want to see the interview with Sommeraapent NRK1, with our beautiful town in the background, and some of the shoes that have been collected so far. *click on #5 Amerikaner i Honningavag*

Amerikaner i Honningsvaag

And now to the next step:  The art exhibition will be a collaboration of several artists, some of the members from the local photo club, and students at the art school.

If you’d like to follow along in the process, no matter which country you live in, you can “like” our facebook page.  It would be wonderful to have the international community follow One Step at a Time. Facebook link for One Step at a Time