SUSTAINABILITY
Clear Group International Clearly Sustainable Written by Cindy Clarke
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The luxury of making a difference began early for Joyce Clear. The daughter
Her dreams of the future, then and now, manifest with her
of a Naval commander whose love of sea, duty to country and respect
determination to make a difference through her work and keep
for both are an integral part of her own DNA, she grew up with the
her beloved oceans as life giving as they were meant to be. Her
wind at her back, the sea at her feet and her prospects for healthy
vision is inextricably entwined with the beliefs and bounty she was
living wide open as she spent summers yachting off Montauk, Long
weaned on, only on a global scale. She graduated from University
Island, with her family. The ocean was her playground, nature her
of Massachusetts at Amherst, and later studied at the University of
mentor. Her days were filled with the kind of National Geographic
Copenhagen in Denmark as well as The Art Institute. Her first job
moments she watched on TV every Sunday with her parents during
took her to Wall Street, then out into the world where her love of
rare moments indoors. As a child, she reveled in the wonder and
travel and design rekindled her passion for creative pursuits and
beauty of the oceans that have sustained life since the beginning of
conservation and ultimately launched the interconnected ventures
time. She still does.
she captains today.
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE//MAGAZINE CULTURE//MAGAZINE CONTEMPORARY
