Decide how you can be part of this movement, whether as an ARTIST, FAMILY, BUSINESS, EDUCATOR. At the very least please participate by adopting some of the LNPB participant guidelines into your routine. Email us to participate in any combination of ways!

Suggested Reading for All Contributors:
Elizabeth Royte, "Garbageland: On the Secret Trail of Trash"
Heather Rogers, "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Trash"
Gay Hawkins, "The Ethics of Waste"

A R T I S T S
Episode 5 - CALL FOR ARTISTS - Apply here by March 3, 2009

Be part of the creativity and join the most exciting LNPB episode yet. The plastic-avoiding & art-creating happens between March and May 2009, with opening events beginning in June 2009.

The completed art will be displayed with a vibrant, waste-free, opening party!

WHO:Performers, Filmmakers, Visual Artists (even Photographers) wanted!
THEME: "Partially Responsible" (tentative)
ENTRY FORM: Inquire here by March 3, 2009

All artist participants agree to live plastic-free for the same three-month time period. A plastic-free lifestyle challenges you to refrain from purchasing items that are packaged in any sort of single-use plastic, including: to-go coffee lids, plastic cups or cutlery, water, prepackaged foods, soap, shampoo, toilet paper, dish soap, laundry soap, utensils...

Any plastic accumulated must not be trashed or recycled curbside. During the course of these three months, artists make paintings/sculptures/mobiles/multi-media collages, video, film, poems, music, etc using or "inspired" by the collected plastics. Photography welcome for this episode!

E D U C A T O R S
Help students to take notice of their habits and how much plastic they discard by integrating Leave No Plastic Behind into your art, Earth Day, science, math or social studies curriculum. Email us if you'd like to try this in your classroom and keep us posted on the results!

Classes or individual students may also participate in the juried community exhibition, so get out the glue, the paints and the wire and make a sculpture out of those snack wrappers!

B U S I N E S S
How can you challenge business as usual and impress a growing number of concerned & educated consumers?

LNPB is on the look-out for and wants to promote conscientious businesses. If you can think of such a business, even if it's yours, send an email!