Creating Healthy People and a Healthy Planet
We are the only living species that creates a toxic environment to live in and the evidence is undeniable:
But it doesn’t have to continue.
We can change.
If Samuel McLennan can build a sailing vessel from marine debris and sail her from Hobart to Sydney, it is proof that what some say is impossible – is possible:
We can create Healthy People and a Healthy Planet.
To inspire individuals and organisations to take responsibility and choose actions that benefit all of us - not just a few.
The state of the environment mirrors the state of our society - and right now, both are showing clear signs of imbalance and ill-health.
It's time to come together and support each another to make slight changes - so we can make a big difference.
1. To prevent waste from entering the environment and remove the waste that’s currently there.
2. To develop strong leaders who are committed to creating people and environments that increase in health.
3. To lift society from the bottom up (the homeless and those who are struggling) – because we will all benefit
Sailing vessel ‘Heart’ isn’t just a boat – she’s a global statement. Built entirely from marine debris collected in Southern Tasmania, Heart began as nothing more than a man who had lost hope.
In 2018, Samuel McLennan, despite a lifetime of strengths, skills and achievements, found himself homeless and questioning his place in the world that no longer made sense.
Believing that every human has incredible potential buried beneath their own inner sabotage, he stepped into a dark and uncertain chapter of life.
Four years passed. Every path forward seemed to collapse beneath him. But slowly, quietly, something extraordinary began to emerge…
Rubbish doesn’t naturally grow in the environment – it comes from people.
Someone chooses, at some point in time, to intentionally not focus on the rubbish they see or have created.
Here’s examples of the thoughts that cause rubbish to be created (or to exist) in the environment:
SAILING across Bass Strait in a raft made entirely from rubbish has been a life defining achievement for Tasmanian sailor Samuel McLennan… Read the SGST
Samuel McLennan, the Tasmanian man who fashioned a castaway-styled, hand built raft out of ocean debris, has been spotted at Refuge Cove, Wilsons Prom, having
HE’S built a raft entirely out of the rubbish he’s found on the beach and he’s sailing it all the way from Tasmania to Sydney…
Samuel McLennan is months into his voyage on a boat made of rubbish. Now, he’s set to make a crossing that’s typically one of two
Sam McLennan is on Flinders Island, sheltering from a wild week of gale-force westerly winds, waiting for them to back off before he makes a
I’m two months into the maiden voyage from Hobart to Sydney on a sailing vessel made from rubbish found in the marine environment. She looks
Hannah interviews Samuel McLennan, a change-maker who’s turning waste into hope. Samuel’s Project Interrupt began in 2022 with one daring idea: to build a raft entirely out of
Boardsox is kicking off Season two of The Oceans Matter Podcast with a huge episode off one of the most ambitious grass roots environmental quests
