"It's no secret - in fact it's pretty obvious - we are currently engaged more with environmental issues than we are with publishing," Coffield said. "In fact, we published only one new title this year (C.L. Lee Anderson's The View from My Old Saddle) and we have no other titles planned for 2020."
Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc. and publisher Becky Coffield support the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition and The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor with donations. "Also, the proceeds from the sales of Saving Our Oceans are donated to these organizations," Coffield said. "But we also contribute to The Nature Conservancy (Arizona branch), CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) and NRDC (Nature Resource Defense Council), and we are also a member of GARN (Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature)" the publisher added. She's also now the unofficial chairperson for JUST ONE THING.
Eventually Coffield plans on building JUST ONE THING its own website, but for now she says, "We do what we can do. It would be great, though, if someone volunteered to host the website - or pay for it. Obviously we need to spend more time marketing books to pay for all the things we want to support and do!"
JUST ONE THING has a simple mission: it asks people to eliminate one plastic product. Just one. "No one expects people to go without plastic products. It would be impossible in today's world," Coffield said. "But If every single person chose one form of plastic that they were willing to eliminate from their life, the results would be colossal. Just one. And bottles and plastic bags are a good place to start because small things add up!"
JUST ONE THING invites individuals and businesses to join this Alliance. If you'd like to do so, Contact us and you will be added to our growing list of people who want to see plastic use and waste diminish.
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