Joanne Briana-Gartner

As a New Year's Resolution I've resolved to pick up at least one piece of trash every day in 2013.

Why you ask? Because it's there I say.

I know you can't save the world by picking up a few pieces of trash every day. But remember the sentimental story of the starfish on the beach? What? You don't know the story of the starfish?

Following a storm a beach is littered with washed up starfish drying out in the noon day sun. A man going down the beach pickup up starfish and throwing them back in meets another man walking in the opposite direction. The second man asks the first, "Why bother? you can't pick up all these starfish. What does it matter if you just throw back a few?

The first man looks at the starfish in his hand and responds, "it matters to this one."