Free November program:

Single-Use Plastics: From the Individual to the World

Monday, Nov. 18, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Milwaukee Community Sailing Center, 1450 N. Lincoln Memorial Dr., Milwaukee

In this actionable program, Dr. Marissa Jablonski of the Freshwater Collaborative will speak about her journey with the U.S. Embassy of Thailand helping 65 hotels reduce their single-use plastics by more than 6 million pieces permanently. She will debunk false eco-beliefs around plastic, explain the micro and macro levels of eco-action, and then extend these actions into communications and messaging so that all audience members have strategies to influence big environmental change.

Registration encouraged at https://bit.ly/gwgplastic

The Milwaukee Community Sailing Center is at the eastern end of Veterans Park off Lagoon Drive past the Gift of Wings kite store. Unfortunately the closest bus stop. is on N. Prospect Ave.

Meet Dr. Marissa Jablonski:

Dr. Marissa Jablonski is an accomplished water engineer, environmental advisor and plastics-reduction expert whose work has touched more than 45 countries. Previously serving as an environmental advisor to the U.S. government, she started her career in international environmental engineering with a focus on creating sustainable processes for rural communities and urban companies. As a result of decades in the environmental field she discovered some key struggles that keep organizations and businesses from taking action. Combined with her experience and desire to help, she took to the stage with the goal of reaching as many people as possible in the realm of energy, water, plastics reduction and policy change. She has been described as a translator who takes technical and complex topics, makes them understandable, and gives people actionable paths forward. She serves as Executive Director of the Freshwater Collaborative at the Universities of Wisconsin.