How it works?

Although we have covered how our social membership works on some other pages, we'll summarize it for you again here. Simply put, it is free to join our StarFish Organization, and when you do, you become what we refer to as a Digital Activist, someone who in our case will work along side us and other members to help increase awareness of the many ocean-related issues, as well as those that impact all entrepreneurs.

There are three defined membership levels: a free member is called a StarFish Member, our first paying membership is $25 per month and that makes you a FoundersClub member, and when you upgrade to become a Diamond ReefShark for $50 per month, you become one of our elite social Entrepreneur Members.

One of the primary goals or objectives as a group is to effect real change in the way people view and use one-time use, convenience-based plastic products to reverse the growing trend of plastic waste. Much of this waste finds itself into our oceans, where it kills an estimated million sea birds annually, plus countless fish and marine life. Mind you, this is no small task to undertake, and it is just one of the many issues that not only impact our oceans, but our health and lives as well.

The second core objective is to help support and fund new social entrepreneurs and their start-ups through grants made possible with a share of the monthly memmbership fees.

Our Founder Petey, believes that to effect any real change, a business minded approach has to be taken to address these issues and correct them. So we will help our paying members overcome the challenges so many of new businesses face today in light of the lack of capital and government interference.

We can no longer depend on our governments or political leaders to solve the ocean problems, or even support small business, its up to us now to rebuild our economy and fix our problems. They had their chance! They can hardly solve the many other problems we also face.

One of the main issues we need to address is the immediate need to remove some of our most corrupt politicians and redirect tax and war dollars to funding entrepreneurs, who create most new and much needed jobs to drive a real recovery, not just hot air and more bailouts for the rich and wealthy.

Traditional non-profit groups are for the most part always underfunded to conduct long-term and expensive campaigns like we have proposed.

So it's up to us to get the manufacturers, food retailers and other merchants to stop putting their stuff into plastic bottles, bags and containers.

It's up to us to tell people to use alternative containers and products, and launch new eco-ideas and solutions. Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong!

Until we, the Consumer Sheeple of this planet stop buying salads in plastic boxes and countless water bottles each week, the Sheeple herders, our leaders, will allow the corporate titans to keep pumping out these plastic packaged products, services and food carriers.

(b>Petey believes that our global plastic waste issue is a direct result of our perceived need for ongoing convenience, due mostly to the stress of having to work multiple jobs to pay our masters (our government employees, bankers, insurance companies, mortgages, cars payments and credit cards, to name a few). It not entirely our fault! For most of our lives we have all been misled to believe that we were living in the illusion called the American Dream.

Well, it's time for us to wake up to the nightmare that has long sleep has caused. Don't believe us? The fact is that 50 years ago, plastic products were non-existent and just beginning to be hyped by corporate America as the salvation of the modern world, the housewife and American lifestyle. Back then our beaches and oceans were clean, the ocean were full of fish, one could swim in them without fear of being poisoned.

There were certainly less cars on the road back then and far less people in this world as well, however, the global population continues to grow, while our resources are running out. The sad realty is that most of the plastic products we have used since the 50's still exist. Yes, we will admit that most is buried in a landfill, where it will remain until we need this valuable resource in the future.

Only about 15% of plastics get recycled, and less that 10% of that ever gets reused and that is nothing to get excited about!

Depending on what study you want to believe, about 5% of all plastic waste we generate is estimated to find its way onto our oceans, through run-off drains, sewers, creeks and streams and by way of ocean dumping activities. Once there it floats in the oceans, where in the North Pacific Ocean a mass of plastic as large as North America slowly breaks down or collects on island beaches.

Our sea birds, marine life and fish eat these small pieces of plastic-toxin and often die as a result, then we eat the fish, and studies have clearly shown that just about all of us already have more than enough plastic toxins in our systems as a result of this and other plastic filled product waste entering our food sources. Yet where is the outrage on this issue?

So what does this all have to do with how our StarFish Organization membership works you may be asking by now, right?

Well it is these messages, the ones we will post on our blogs amongst many others that we, yes WE, you and I, and all members need to start communicating to others. We need to talk ocean and remotivate social entrepreneurs to find solutions and new products that make a difference. We need to tell everyone we meet or email them anywhere and anytime, because it's that important.

As a member you represent a part of the solution, or at least will represent the oceans best interest as part of a collaborative global effort to increase awareness of the problems as a fellow member and entrepreneur.

How? By sharing our blogs with others through our tools, to get them here to our site, and when they join, they become your member referral for life. It's really that easy!

Of course, we know that being a part of something bigger than yourself makes many of you proud, but we're going to pay you too. Yes, we will pay you in SandDollar$ for watching our video blogs about the ocean issues, video pitches of new eco-products and services, which you can vote on to determine which ones we will help fund and launch.

You will earn SandDollar$ for watching our many Travel Partner videos, our member videos and even other non-profit group videos. You accrue them and can then redeem your SandDollar$ for free destination lodging, cruises and car rental days to help offset your vacation costs, once we go live with this program in 2010.

Joining early like you may have done already affords you a great marketing advantage in that few people have heard about us, and if by chance you have a strong email list, or are part of a large group or organization, here's your chance to brings lots of people to us?

Our program is designed to be simple, unique, informative, fun and rewarding. A win/win proposition under any circumstances, but helping address a global problem and help launch new eco-products and services is even more satisfying.

Our online store will offer many of these products and solutions in time, like dual-walled, multi-purpose stainless steel bottles so people can eliminate their use of plastic filled water bottles that make small fortunes for their brands at the expense of our planet.

We must get people to stop buying salads in plastic boxes and demand alternative packaging from manufacturers, today, not tomorrow, but NOW!

We are so confident that you will feel good about helping address the oceans issues and helping entrepreneurs realize their goals, that you will see substantial benefit from our program and never quit.

In fact, the more progress you see with us, the more you will talk about us, and if true, then we will grow into a monster social platform. One that gets results and pays you along the way for helping us do so, as be make the word BLUE as powerful as the word green.

Welcome aboard the StarFish Organization, the next environmental marketing success story of our time.

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