To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying course to draw attention to one of the planet’s great ” plastic gyres ,” swirling accumulatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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David de Rothschild on Crossing the Pacific in the Plastiki (Podcast)
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Image via My Plastiki The Plastiki is nearing the end of it’s voyage from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia after several months on the water. It’s been an incredible trip, and Graham Hill was even able to tag along for a good chunk of the trek. But the Plastiki has had an important goal from the very beginning, and now, the crew is asking you for support to meet that goal. As the Plastiki boat nears the end of its journey from San Francisco to Sydney, David de Rothschild and his crew are preparing for their next part of the mission,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pledge to Plug Plastic Pollution with the Plastiki
Jo aboard the Plastiki; Photos via The Plastiki Guest post by Jo Royle, Skipper on the Plastiki ‘The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides’ – Jules Vern, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. I think most of us feel an emotional tie to the oceans. Most of us breathe a sigh of relief or relaxation as soon as we set eyes upon the deep blue wilderness, a feeling of coming home. My childhood mem… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What We Don’t Know About the Ocean Can Kill Us
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Dr. Sylvia Earle displays samples to aquanaut inside TEKTITE; Photo via wikipedia Guest post by Sylvia Earle Since I began exploring the ocean as a marine scientist fifty years ago, more has been learned about the ocean than during all preceding history. At the same time, more has been lost. Two weeks ago, when I testified before Congress on the ecological impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I did so with perspective gained while sloshing around oiled beaches and marshes among dead and dying animals, diving under sheets of oily water and for years – a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Save the Oceans, Save Ourselves! Sylvia Earle’s Top 3 Actions to Take on World Oceans Day
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Photo by markey weiss Guest post by Philippe Cousteau I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. “Progress!” I thought to myself with satisfaction. Then I watched in horror as she first placed her purchases into several plastic bags and then placed those into the reusable bag. As I walked out of the store I realized two things, the good news is that we are making progress (at least she had a reusable bag… the bad news is we clearly … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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On Celebrating Everyday Heros to Save Our Oceans
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Photo via Ingridtaylar Guest Post by By Dr. Greg Stone, Senior Vice President for Marine Conservation and Chief Ocean Scientist, Conservation International Twenty years ago when I had the opportunity to dive to 18,000 feet in the Japanese research submersible, Shinkai 6500 in the Sea of Japan I fantasized about the amazing animals our team might see deep on the ocean floor: rat-tails, deep sea sharks, and octopi. But when we reached the sea bottom, it was littered with trash that included food bags, soda cans, empty boxes, and even a broken toy doll. I shudder to im… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Three Steps to Cure Our Ailing Ocean
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Photo via jenny downing Written By Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) The epic voyage of Plastiki is bringing into sharp focus the inordinate environmental and economic impact humanity is having on the oceans and seas. While the focus is solid waste, and especially plastic marine litter, the expedition also underlines the myriad of other, sometimes invisible, factors that are accelerating the degradation and decline of fisheries to coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What’s Really Wrong with Our Oceans? Money, Politics, Greed, Money…
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Steve McCallion writes a remarkable series in Fast Company asking “Why has Memorial Day, like so many of our national holidays, been reduced to appliance sales, fast food specials, and vacation deals?” He starts with Reinventing Memorial Day: Beyond the Mattress Blowout Sale : In this era of convenience and instant gratification–when mobile screens hold more interest than parades; when regulations are needed to prevent texting while driving; when TV idols are created in the time it takes to sing a song–it’s difficul… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Reinventing Memorial Day: Remarkable Series in Fast Company
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Images via The Plastiki Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the natural world. The formula appears to be simple: The more we package, mechanize, and force nature into the background, the more developed and evolved our society will become. What we produce and consume has become a representation of our values and identities. The almost automated desire to take nature and manipulate it to m… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Plastiki’s Quest, and Questioning Plastic
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