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“In Your Face – Microplastics in Cosmetics”

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Art appeals to people’s emotions. It works on many levels. Above all it opens doors.

Meike Schützek
Meike Schützek
Founder Ocean. Now!
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HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

😡 Fast fashion producers and clothing brands are treating us like fossil fools.

Every year, up to 16 million tons of oil are used to create polyester fibers – and the production of polyester clothing emits a staggering 944 million tons of CO2!

This April 1st, known as Fossil Fools Day, we’re saying ‘NO’ to fossil fashion.

⏱️The time for ethical production is now!

Join us: sign our petition to adidas (link in bio). 🖊️

Thank you.

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1. Oil barrel figure sources: Exit Fast Fashion, MetaInsights, Forum UE, Fashion Revolution, Boell, Changing Markets, FAZ, Cosh, UBA

2. Emissions figure sources: Eureka, Textfash, Fashiondive, Cosh, Globaltextiletimes, Huidutextile, Teec-Recyc, Greenmatch, RMI, Shahid Imran et al: Assessing the potential of GHG emissions for the textile sector: A baseline study
"Wenn du nicht sicher bist, zeig dich verletzlich." - Yasmina Sita Raada Steck

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🌊 Ocean. Now! is proud to stand with Ocean Vision Legal in the global movement to give the ocean a voice. We’ve signed the Ocean Rights Declaration.

👉 If you’d also like to join, either as an organisation or individual, check out the link in our bio.

Why are we doing this? It’s time to stop treating the sea as a "resource" and start treating it as a legal person. ⚖️

Why does it matter? Corporations and citizens have rights that protect their dignity and interests – but the source of all life does not. By granting the ocean and its inhabitants legal personhood, we move from "managing a commodity" to "defending a living entity." It gives the ocean a seat at the table and the power to be defended in court.

This isn't just a dream – it’s already happening:

🇪🇸 Mar Menor (Spain): The first ecosystem in Europe to gain legal rights to protection.

🇳🇿 Whanganui River (New Zealand): Recognized as a legal person with its own identity.

🇨🇦 Magpie River (Canada): Granted the legal right to exist, flourish, and even sue!

🇪🇨 Ecuador: The first country to enshrine the Rights of Nature in its Constitution, protecting wild animals as individual rights-holders.

The tide is turning. It’s time for the ocean to have its day in court. 🐋✊

#OceanRights #RightsOfNature #NatureLaw
"From water, everything emerges; into water, everything dissolves. The ocean is the philosopher's vessel, where all things change and are reborn." - Michael Maier (Alchemist, 1568–1622)

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"As above, so below; as within, so without. The tides of the ocean mirror the tides of the soul." - Hermetic Alchemical Saying

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Ocean. Now! stands with @antarcticsouthernocean who just handed in an objection with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

The MSC released its final draft report announcing the recertification of the Antarctic krill fishery as sustainable.

But Antarctic krill 🦐 are not just another species. They are the foundation of the Southern Ocean food web. Whales 🐋 penguins 🐧 seals 🦭seabirds 🐟 fish. All depend on krill.

The certification leans heavily on the claim that the fishery removes less than 1% of total krill biomass. But that number ignores where fishing happens.

Effort is highly concentrated in the Antarctic Peninsula, near breeding and feeding grounds, in one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth. ❄️

Less than 1% overall can still mean too much in the wrong place.

When the base of the food web is under pressure, precaution should be stronger, not weaker.

Photo: @seashepherd
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. The sea is the great unconscious, and in its depths lie the secrets of transformation." - Carl Jung

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Ocean. Now! stands with ASOC @antarcticsouthernocean: 

You cannot call a fishery “precautionary” after its safeguards have expired, its catch cap has been exceeded, and its management authority admits it is not precautionary.

On February 9, 2026, the Marine Stewardship Council released its final draft report announcing the recertification of the Antarctic krill fishery as sustainable. 🦐

This comes after the fishery exceeded its 620,000 tonne precautionary cap for the first time in history, closed three months early, and allowed a key spatial safeguard to lapse.

The Scientific Committee of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources has already acknowledged that current management is not precautionary due to localized concentration of the catch.

Yet sustainability scores went up.

ASOC and WWF have formally objected, arguing that certification is being granted based on outdated assumptions, not present-day risk.

If the MSC label is meant to signal true sustainability, it must reflect reality in the Southern Ocean, not optics. 🌊

📸 Sea Shepherd
Was genau passiert aktuell im Südpolarmeer?  Warum schenken wir Antarktischem Krill so viel Aufmerksamkeit? 🦐🇦🇶

In unserem Bericht zur industriellen Krillfischerei im Südpolarmeer haben wir für Dich zusammengestellt: 

- spannende Informationen über Antarktischen Krill und seine herausragende Bedeutung für antarktische Ökosysteme und das globale Klima
- eine Einordnung ökologischer Risiken, die auf diese Spezies einwirken
- eine Übersicht der politischen Defizite (#CCAMLR-Kontext)
- einen Einblick in den Markt von Krillprodukten und die Konsumtreiber

Neugierig? Du findest den Bericht unter dem Link in unserer Bio. 🙂  Über Dein Feedback würden wir uns freuen!

Inhalt: Ocean. Now!
Layout: @stefaniie_cloos 
Illustrationen: Maja Litzke @maliaanddesign 
Infografiken: Carolin Oelsner, @co_grafiksafari 
Hero Image: Karin Binz @karinbernardybinz 
Direktion: @meikeschuetzek 

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Dieses Projekt wurde aus Erlösen der 16. Sonderbriefmarke „Für den Umweltschutz“ zum Thema „Antarktis – Gemeinsam Einzigartiges schützen“ durch das Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit und das @umweltbundesamt gefördert. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt dieser Veröffentlichung liegt bei den Autorinnen.
"Der Anfang ist die Hälfte des Ganzen." - Aristoteles

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