Happy Monday all! Yes, today’s blog post is dropping a day early, for a very special reason. Today is the first Impact Day of 2020! I’m sure you’ve noticed over the last four months I have one post every month that starts with “Happy Impact Day”, and you may be wondering, what this impact day is. Well, I am about to tell you.
Back in October I was accepted into the Wild Keeper Ambassador program with Keep Nature Wild. Keep Nature Wild is a company based in Arizona that picks up trash with profits made and awareness provided from the selling of their merchandise. The KNW Team alone picked up 74,802 pounds of trash in 2019! Their Ambassador program helps them with their mission to pick up trash and help make our planet and our wild places just a little bit better than we found it. This last round of Ambassadors totaled almost 1,500! That’s 1,500 people every month picking up trash, on top of the clean-ups that KNW hosts in their local wild areas in Arizona. That means not only is more trash is being collected, but in more places, as their program is world-wide. Ambassadors alone picked up 14,507 pounds of trash in 2019! This spreads awareness of the idea of making a positive impact in several ways. First, ambassadors can share the importance of packing out what we pack in. Second, ambassadors can share the importance of everyone picking up trash we find, even if it isn’t ours. Third, it can encourage people to either use something reusable or biodegradable when and where possible to help alleviate our impact even more. We can do this in person, for those who cross paths with ambassadors during a clean up and ask ‘why’ they’re cleaning up. Ambassadors are also sharing this concept online by posting about it on their Instagram and other social media platforms, especially on Impact Day. Which is the day all of us Ambassadors flood Instagram and social media with the trash we’ve picked up and the Impact we’ve made on our local wild places. I joined this program to help make me put my money where my mouth is. I do my best to live a low impact lifestyle, and I am always trying to improve and do better in my personal life. But it is also an important reminder as to why it’s so important to me to be low impact. Seeing trash in places where it doesn’t belong, damaging the environment, helps solidify why it’s important to do what I can, recycle where I can, and avoid as much as I can. Because, inevitably, it can end up out there, damaging a park or natural area or animal that accidentally eats it. Even in the landfill, trash is out of sight but it is not truly gone. That’s why its important to compost and recycle as much as possible. Other than cleaning up trash I also get to connect with other Wild Keeper Ambassadors, see and hear about their experiences. I also get codes to buy Keep Nature Wild gear that I can sport, I have KNW stickers on everything, and I have an awesome hat! Overall, I have had an amazing experience as a Wild Keeper Ambassador, I hope I get accepted into another term as an Ambassador (fingers crossed!). No matter what, it’s been a great opportunity and I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to make a positive impact on our environment. You get to clean up trash, get outdoors, meet new people, and add a new experience to your repertoire. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, I would highly recommend you apply! It’s free, you do not need a huge following to be accepted (just a public Instagram account and be 18 or older), clean up trash and post about it. Here’s the link for their Spring 2020 Ambassador program: https://keepnaturewild.com/pages/wild-keepers I hope to see you as the next Ambassador! Much Love, Jess
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AuthorJessica Marie Cunningham - Intentional lifestyle blogger, aspiring author, and podcast host. All things Slow Living, Books, Writing, Art, creativity, Christianity, and personal stories. Archives
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