I sabella Bertold’s first love of sailing opened her eyes to the perilous state of the planet. With the open ocean as her raceway, the environmental problems were swimming right past her. She saw a sea turtle caught in a beer six-pack and a dolphin stuck in a net. Then there were the thousands upon thousands of objects. “Entire dining room tables, toys, Barbies, trash bags, wrappers,” she says. “I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve seen one flip-flop float by. I don’t know how many people are walking around with one shoe.”
Training on the water in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 amid such waste was the tipping point which hardened her resolve to have a greater impact on making the world sustainable.
