Five Valleys Audubon is hosting FLC’s co-chair of the Plastics Working Group, Youpa Stein. Join Monday, December 11, 2023 at 7:00 PM to hear her present Plastic in the Wild: The Impact of Plastic Pollution on Wildlife - and You.
The meeting will be held in Room 110 in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB) on the University of Montana campus. The building lies on the south end of campus on Beckwith Avenue between Maurice and Mansfield avenues. Due to our membership being composed of many older adults, masks are encouraged, but not required by the University.
The physical and chemical components of plastics contaminate our water, air, soil, and the bodies of all life on earth. Youpa will give us an overview of how every stage of plastics causes health problems and environmental justice harm to humans, wildlife, and the ecosystems that sustain us all. She will go on to explain how plastics pollute and contribute to climate change at every stage including how plastics are made, used, and disposed of, and how plastics create a long-lasting legacy of damage to the health of earth's biological systems. We will also look at how we can work together to reduce the toxic overproduction of single use plastics and how we can support a regenerative circular economy and actions to stop the harm and injustice at every stage of plastic pollution.
Youpa was born in Montana and is an artist and concerned citizen who works to raise awareness about plastic pollution and the related health and environmental justice harm caused by plastics through giving talks, writing, creating art, and policy work for solutions. Her belief in the rights of nature fundamentally shapes her work. She volunteers for the Beyond Plastics Speakers Bureau and is a volunteer Co-Chair of the Families for a Livable Climate Plastics Working Group. Youpa agrees with writer, farmer and activist, Wendell Berry, in his belief that the care of the earth is our most ancient and worthiest responsibility.
The meeting will be held in Room 110 in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB) on the University of Montana campus. The building lies on the south end of campus on Beckwith Avenue between Maurice and Mansfield avenues. Due to our membership being composed of many older adults, masks are encouraged, but not required by the university.
To learn more about getting involved with addressing plastic pollution in Montana, consider joining our volunteer Plastics Working Group dedicated to plastic reduction and reform. Join here.