Slideshare for Beyond Plastics Competition March 2013

1. help!
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2. The Problem
In 2010, I decided to stop using single-use beverage containers.
Single use containers have a value of $11 billion annually
in the United States alone.
Corporations, in an effort to reduce their operating costs,
have marginalized these containers by lacing them with chemicals,
and making them with the lowest quality materials.
They have not taken responsibility for their disposal costs.
Consumers only value these containers for a single use.
Nobody is willing to take ownership of these containers because they
are not worth owning.
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3. The Solution
This is a Personalized The design of this vessel
Multi-use is very specific.
Drinking and Storage
Vessel. It is made for a particular
consumer.
It is washable, it protects the
user’s hands from hot liquids Sometimes, it is made by
and it is easy to hold. the actual consumer.
The cover protects the glass This Vessel is made to
from breakage. foster an acute sense of
ownership.
It can be repaired. Ownership imparts
responsibility;
These vessels have been the greater the ownership
tested by repeated use over the greater the
many years. responsibility.
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4. Open Source
Freemasonware
Mason Jars are open source freeware.
Like other forms of open source, the way they make money is implicit.
When John L. Mason patented Mason jars in 1859, he never renewed the patent.
Today, anyone can produce and use Mason Jars They are standardized, ubiquitous
and re-usable.
Made of glass: silicon dioxide, sodium dioxide, and calcium oxide;
some of the most plentiful element in the earth’s crust.
Glass imparts negligible contamination to the food it contains
Properly cared for, glass will last a very long time.
The philosophy of the Mason Jar is to allow the end user to control what goes in the jar.
The jar has a standard thread size top and is uniform in size.
A Mason jar is the perfect vehicle for reuse.
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5. The Technology
Nylon Line Sacred Geometry
holds the gives the vessel the
“in-tension” meaning
technically superior provides a link for
strength spiritual and cultural
connectedness
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6. Marketing Plan
The use of the
vessel is the
marketing plan.
It attracts
attention, which
elicits
conversation,
which give an
opportunity to
share
the idea.
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7. The Competitors
Anyone who Vs. Anyone who
is making a is making a
reusable, single use,
multi-use generic
drinking drinking
container is container is
my friend my target.
and ally.
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8. About Me
Education:
BA in English from UCLA
Master of Architecture from SCI-ARC
Current work experience:
Solid Waste Alternatives Program
volunteer
Sailor, Surfer, and Blogger
ontocaliforniaonbullit.blogspot.com
Moved to Lopez Island from California
in 2010
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9. Future Plans
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An infusion of Capital will allow me to produce a book and an instructional video
on how to make a Vessel of Intention.
Or maybe a documentary film on how an idea changed the way we think.
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10. Seastained-able
Seastained is my form of Sustainability
It is a life where I am stained by the sea
and the sea stains me.
My life in the ocean as a sailor has given
me a deep respect for the petroleum
products that make my sailing adventures
possible, this substance sustains me when I
am at sea.
Petroleum has a place on this planet.
I am in awe of the products and energy
density that fossil fuels give us.
I believe this material should be used with
the utmost care and respect.
It is a travesty that the majority of fossil
fuels are burned and that plastic bottles
and cups that will last many hundreds of
years
are thrown away after a single use.
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11. vesselsofintention.blogspot.com
is a blog which chronicles my
exploration into the meaning
contained in sacred geometry
lopezknowlegeshare.org
is a school where I have taught
classes on how to make a vessel
of intention
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