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Dear Citizen:
Welcome to our web site! My name is Peter "TahitiPetey" Ortmann, Founder and President of the TahitiPetey® Foundation, a privately funded non-profit society based on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. We are dedicated to increasing awareness of important global issues and finding workable solutions to overcome their impact. Our primary focus is on those devastating our oceans and marine life, like overfishing and the need for us to reduce the use of convenience-based plastic products reaching them. Our proposed programs are designed to do this in a purpose driven, non-political manner. To accomplish our objectives, let me first state that as a serial entrepreneur for over 37 years, I strongly believe that non-profit organizations can best accomplish their intended global objectives and enhance their long-term funding needs, by operating more like a for-profit business – not a traditional charity. With that in mind, the Foundation is developing a number of exciting businesses that will work together to accomplish our objectives, including our new Internet-based social network the StarFish Organization and its FoundersClub. Our StarFish Organization will empower our global members who serve as Digital Activists in a collaborative effort to increase awareness of the ocean and plastic waste issues. They will do so through our Clear Blue OCEANS initiative that is designed mainly to change the way we view and use convenience-based plastic products. By empowering like-minded members within our global StarFish Organization, the Foundation will accomplish its mission, and we will compensate our members in both cash and SandDollar$, our social club currency, for doing so. Our Clear Blue OCEANS initiative’s call to action will motivate and engage a global population, and will appeal to almost everyone, everywhere and of any age, regardless of sex, nationality, religion or race. Why? Take a few minutes and watch this video featuring Dr. Sylvia Earle, a well-respected marine scientist as she shares some truly unbelievable facts with you and you will see why! As you can see, no blue, no green, and our oceans are in serious trouble. Our StarFish Organization will not only grow quickly, but we may well become the next environmental marketing success story of our time as we collectively make the word BLUE as powerful and important as the word Green is today.Together we can! I believe that to effectively address our global ocean issues and massive plastic waste problem, and reduce the annual use of 210 billion plastic beverage containers, the seven trillion plastic shopping bags and over 400 billions other plastic package-based containers we use each year – an aggressive business-minded approach and program to address it needed to be undertaken – and soon! Our StarFish Organization and programs like our Clear Blue OCEANS initiative will bring all sides of the issue together, and reward those who participate and stay active in our long-term awareness campaign. That is what is needed to reduce the plastic waste, and accomplish countless others issues as well. Our web site is undergoing a transition into an online social ocean resource platform. Once completed this summer, it will consolidate the vast information and science on the issues we cover, we will integrate this with our member’s perspectives, editorials to share and find workable solutions, sustainable living ideas and educational content that can make a difference in all our lives today and in our future. The Foundation will build it's StarFish Organization into an entertaining, yet viable online social organization comprised of citizens from all walks of life worldwide who want to help heal our oceans. This active group of independent Digital Activists will make us more aware of the front-line intelligence on both sides of all ocean issues. It will not happen overnight, but July 1, 2009 we will start this long journey ahead. The first thing we must do is reduce our use of one-time only plastic products, because much of this plastic waste finds its way into our oceans and accumulates on tropical islands and coastlines worldwide, killing millions of fishes and other marine life annually. Together, we can reverse the devastating trends of ocean plastic waste that are killing our oceans, ocean dumping and the over-fishing of our most valuable natural food resource. Together, we will examine both sides of the Climate Change or Global Warming debate and its impact, because it is a real issue that will change much more than our weather patterns and ocean currents; it will cause at the very least substantial damage to the world's coastlines, fisheries, coral reefs and marine life. Together, we will showcase how rising ocean levels will displace millions of people in mainly poor countries and even entire populations of small island nations. This issue will create over a billion homeless people, and many in our lifetime, so we must plan for this impact today. Along the way, we will share hundreds of links to useful web sites, help fund worthy awareness organizations, publications, projects and research programs, and through the AngelFish Trust Fund, provide natural disaster relief aid worldwide after major weather or natural disasters. We can no longer keep our heads in the sand and ignore these issues. We MUST become more aware and address the problems we all face, but at the same time, we need to still enjoy what our planet and oceans have to offer us, travel and live a quality life – and we can do both. This site will share more about our StarFish Organization, FoundersClub, Clear Blue OCEANS initiative and some of our other objectives. I invite you to check back soon and purchase one or more copies of my book, TragicSatisfaction to help fund us. Stay up to date by following me on Twitter, http://twitter.com/tahitipetey and join our pre-launch list for the StarFish Organization to become one of the first to join for free when we launch. If you have an established subscriber base you will want to become part of our pre-launch team. In the meantime, do whatever possible to reduce your daily use of convenience-based plastic products and become more environmentally responsible. Working together we can and will accomplish our goals.
Cordially,
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