OSEA to Present Free Lecture on Plastic Packaging and the Environment

The Ocean Springs Environmental Alliance invites you to attend a lecture featuring Elizabeth Englebretson speaking about “Plastic Packaging: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Corporations, False Solutions, and What We Can Do." The event is set for Thursday, February 22, at the Mary C. Cultural Center in Ocean Springs, 6 p.m. for a wine & cheese reception, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. for the lecture.

This talk will focus on single use consumer goods packaging and the decades of false solutions that have created a plastic disaster that touches even the most remote places on our planet. What can we do to prevent the use of plastic before it becomes waste despite the consumer culture built around plastic packaging? Join the discussion!

Elizabeth Englebretson, a MSU Extension Associate, is program coordinator for Plastic Free Gulf Coast and program co-lead for SWAPS (Sustainability with Awareness and Prevention Solutions) at the MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For Elizabeth, Landscape is defined as the political, ecological, economic, social, and cultural spaces in which we all exist. Her thesis focused on understanding and investigating how people reconnect to their Landscape post-disaster. Since moving to East Biloxi in 2014 Elizabeth has worked on a variety of large and small scale projects that focus on strengthening, supporting, and reinforcing a sense of place, place keeping, and the community connection and agency over their Landscape.

For more information, call 228-327-0183