Chirping birds are any man,
woman or child who will chirp, cheep and chitter about plastic litter. Birds
come in all shapes and sizes, colors, habits, and routines. Birds chirp and
cheep in different songs but all birds of a feather flock together to bring
awareness to the devastating effects of plastic contaminants. The Chirping
Bird Society recently found Elizabeth Beaumont who lives in Australia and like
all ‘chirping birds’, she is totally
dedicated to the environment.
We want to take this
opportunity to give a chirp out to Elizabeth who was recently a guest on the
Robert Sharpe blog radio show, “Bringing Inspiration to Earth.” The link to the
show is below.
Elizabeth has worked as a
Liver Intensive Care Nurse and recently has returned to new studies, this
time in the area of Sustainability. During a merging of two assignments
that concerned water extraction for the bottled water industry and
the ingestment of plastics by sea mammals and birds, she decided to
approach the senior management of the university and make formal
presentations to phase out and subsequently ban the sale of water housed
in polyethylene terephthalate at the university. She was successful
making her university the 1st in Queensland and only the 2nd in Australia
to ban the sale of water in P.E .T. This will result in a
massive reduction of carbon emissions. The university has installed
3 ProAcqua machines the greatest innovation of water vends that ever
have been invented. In 2014 she traveled to Cambodia with the university
and was asked by the Minister of Tourism to advise on plastic pollution
there. Her work to communicate the dangers of this issue
has been enhanced by her steady efforts to connect with other interested
people including, experts in the broad field of plastic pollution.
She actively picks up all kinds of plastic and volunteers for the
Two Hand Project while applauding everyone else committed to picking up
plastics. For 30 years she has actively practiced Nichiren Buddhism.
Together with her family, Elizabeth enjoys life on a Land for
Wildlife property where marsupials, birds and aquatic life live
freely in the Hinterland of South East Queensland.
Congratulations Elizabeth
for all your hard work and commitment to the environment. You are an excellent ‘chirping
bird’ and we are delighted to have you in our nest.
To contact to Elizabeth
email her at e_b043@student.usc.edu.au
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