Lens Lady: Recycling Eyeglasses, Sunglasses and Contact Lenses

I am the Lens Lady, and I have six missions.

* Eyeglass Recycling: Enable people to read and work
* Industrialized Obesity: Address industrialized health trends and help families save
* Skim the Ocean's Bottles: Increase awareness of floating plastic
* Share the Recipe for the Fountain of Youth: Nature's best nutrition
* Promote Reading and Expand Library Access: Investment in community
* Modernize Family Planning: Free technology for potential parents

Mission I: Eyeglass Recycling

First, I'm trying to get the word out about something that most people don't know about. The situation is quietly shocking: more than 500 million people need but can't access prescription eyewear.

Most are in lesser developed countries, but even still the economic implications are staggering. The global GDP, or economic output, would increase by more than 1% if everyone could see. On a $60 trillion global economy, that means an extra $600 billion of wealth would be generated each year, thanks to a simple investment of $18 billion in eyewear (about the same amount spent just in the United States on eyeglass frames and prescription lenses). That's better than a ten-fold return on investment just in the first year!

So, until we actually put our production capacities to use in order to solve the world's problems, the best first step is to recycle our old eyeglasses. There are almost 10 million pairs of perfectly good used glasses thrown away each year in North America and across Europe. If we could come together and raise awareness for eyeglass recycling, we could make millions of people happier and more productive. We could make millions of children able to read. The website is here: Lens Lady Contact Lens and Eyeglass Recycling.

Goal #1: Inform 30 million people and collect 10,000 pairs of eyeglasses.

Reason #1: Some people ask why I'm so passionate about this. What it comes down to is that I want to help build a better world with greater transfer of knowledge. And if hundreds of millions of people can't even see well enough to work or read, then we need to start there before we can expect anything else to change.

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Mission II: Address Industrialized Obesity

Our world has modernized much faster than we as humans have evolved. There is one particular reason why modern nations are getting fat: we now consume 20% of our calories from beverages, most of which weren't available just 100 years ago.

Beverages are big business. The average Brit or American drinks enough soda to consume 89,000 calories each year. By themselves, these calories would result in 25 pounds (12.3 kg) of body weight gain.

Children who drink just one ade, juice or soda a day will consume over 40,000 calories per year, and weigh ten more pounds than they would have otherwise. Beverages are why childhood obesity is on the rise.

The repercussions for building human bodies from sweeteners, corn syrup, sugar, caramel coloring and caffeine are staggering. The annual health cost of the obese are 40% higher than those of normal weight. In the US, this means an extra $1429 spent per obese person each year.

The trends toward obesity curve on the same trajectory as do beverage distribution and consumption. We're at the stage where the average US household spend over 4% of its household income on sodas, fruit juices, and other beverages that people just weren't built to drink.

If we just drank water one quarter of the time instead of a beverage, the United States citizenry would have a positive savings rate.

Drinking water instead of beverages is shown to have enormous health benefits. One key benefit illustrates itself in weight loss and dieting. The crucial fact is that when overweight people remove caloric beverages from their diets, they neither experience greater hunger nor eat any more than before. It's the only diet that works without pain. Basically, it's the only diet that can really succeed.

So drink more water, and carry a real water bottle with you wherever you go. Get an at-home water dispenser and water filter system and save money.

Goal #2: Convince 100,000 people to drink more water, and 10,000 people to choose to carry their own water bottles.

Reason #2: People should get rid of the soda, ades and juices to be healthy, save money, and build better kids. This simple deed simply sets a good example.

Mission III: Skim the Ocean's Bottles

Explosive growth in the bottled beverage industry has resulted in an enormous island of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean. The ocean's natural tides result in a massive trash vortex.

The plastic island is larger than the state of Texas, and about the area of France and Germany combined.

Approximately 10% of all plastic bottles and packaging ends up in the oceans. And the rate of trash uptake has been steadily increasing since the 1950's, when all this started happening. It's just the result of the $250 billion beverage and $330 billion packaged foods industries (in the US). Worldwide, the numbers are $1.1 trillion and $1.7 trillion respectively. And if 10% of the plastic is ending up in the ocean, we've got a problem.

Goal #3: I want to build upon, convert or otherwise clean up the plastic garbage vortex island. The first research is coming in now, and although we don't know how to solve the problem yet, we're working on it.

Reason #3: If there's ever been a symptom that something is wrong with the modern consumption lifestyle, this is it.

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Mission IV: Share the Recipe for the Fountain of Youth

So, if we have our own water bottle, and we're drinking more water, and more people can see, what can we do to improve our nutrition for $1 per day?

The best answer is simple: drink from the fountain of youth. Every morning, fill the bottle halfway up with good, pure water. Then add a one cup blend of super foods like pomegranate, acai, goji and blueberry. Add blue-green algae to the mix, and next a teaspoon each of honey, flaxseed oil, and apple cider vinegar. Finally, add protein powder and your other chosen ingredients. Close the lid and shake the bottle for 30 seconds with each arm. Drink the sweet-smelling, dark purple nectar. Rinse the bottle, and fill it up with water to take with you wherever you go.

Nutrients come from nature's nutrition. Nature's nutrients do not come from factory-manufactured vitamin pills.

In a single, sweet-tasting and semi-tropical water nectar are all the nutrients the human body needs. This is drinking from the fountain of youth. Delivered correctly - with a glass of water, the primary driver of the digestive system's nutritional uptake.

Goal #4: Share the Water Fountain of Youth Recipe with 3 million people while addressing Goals 1, 2 and 3.

Reason #4: The easiest way to extend life expectancy is proper water nutritional intake. Extending life expectancy is good. We have wiser, happier people and younger, stronger bodies as the result.

Mission V: Promote Reading and Expand Library Access

I'm an avid reader and a staunch supporter of libraries. I believe that libraries are schools for the curious, and the perfect counterweight to ignorance, violence and troublemaking. When properly invested, the library is one of the most enduring community investments we can make.

The more we read, the better we are. The more time children spend in libraries, the more knowledge they'll acquire and ultimately share.

Goal #5: Raise $10 million for libraries by supporting operation of charitable lottery, online casino and online poker rooms.

Reason #5: This is for the kids, and if people are going to lose more than $5 billion each year to online gambling, it ought to go to a house of knowledge instead of a house of cards.

Mission VI: Modernize Family Planning

If the advent of the birth control pill led to fewer unwanted babies and reduced rates of crime and violence, how else can we support this effect?

One part of the solution is bringing modern technology to the family planning equation. That's why I built a simple, free Internet technology that reminds both men and women about her cycle: when she's fertile, and when she's about to have her period.

This helps those who want children when it's the best time to try to make their wanted babies. For others, the reminder helps reduce unwanted pregnancy. For men, a primary side benefit is increased attentiveness, understanding and tolerance of women who are under the moon.

Goal #6: Support family planning by providing free cycle reminder technology to 100,000 people.

Reason #6: The end results are better relationships, more wanted babies, and fewer unwanted children. The net effect is improvement in the human condition for everyone.

Lens Lady Conclusion

Thank you for reading. It's a simple message in a bottle, but it tells a story of a world where we drink more water and have happier, smarter children who can read and work in the longer-lived world around them.

* Eyeglass Recycling: Enable people to read and work
* Industrialized Obesity: Address industrialized health trends and help families save
* Skim the Ocean's Bottles: Increase awareness of floating plastic
* Share the Recipe for the Fountain of Youth: Nature's best nutrition
* Promote Reading and Expand Library Access: Investment in community
* Modernize Family Planning: Free technology for potential parents

Accomplishing these six missions are the primary goals of Sea Island Investments, an organization built to make this difference.

We see a better world for all of us. If you do too, then share it with me!

And remember: Just imagine everyone smiling at the same time :-)