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Tapped, bottled water documentary worth seeing
Aug 22, ’09
2:43 AM
I’ve posted extensively on the subject of single-use plastics, water bottles and our Rise Above Plastics campaign. Check this film out, from the crew behind one of my favorite films “Who killed the electric car?“
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MCumz5lq4]
Chris Jordon makes sense of the numbers
Aug 20, ’09
3:01 AM
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Algalita podcast: Anna Cummins and Dr. Marcus Eriksen
Feb 16, ’09
3:00 AM
A lot of people have heard about the Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup region in the middle of the Pacific Ocean whose size is frequently compared to that of Texas.
A few days ago I caught up with anna Cummins and Dr. Marcus Erikseen from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. The Garbage Patch was the core of [...]
Antithesis of sustainability: Bottled water for dogs
Feb 7, ’09
4:21 AM
Bottled water for dogs in single-use plastic bottles… we’re toast.
Last month I popped up a quick post titled antithesis of sustainability, it was about refridgerated beaches in Dubai (complete with fashion-house branding!). With this post I’m thinking of making this theme a series.
I was buying some dog food a few weeks ago and walked by [...]
21st century waterfall
Nov 18, ’08
4:42 PM
Statistics are abstract. They are hard to get your head around. Video tells a better story.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbTXDkrD1o]
Urban tumbleweeds / Encinitas
Oct 8, ’08
2:00 AM
Great piece in the Reader (a local, San Diego pub) on bags, bags… everywhere. Urban Tumbleweeds, check it out.
Simultaneously Encinitas, with the help, support and nudging from some stellar local activists, helped push forward a local bag ban. Details on that here. Special kudos to Elizabeth Wiles for leading the charge, seeming while representing Surfrider’s [...]
Plastics out of the ocean?
Jul 5, ’08
7:46 PM
I was visiting a good friend at his office yesterday. I noticed he was drinking some water, and after the summer drive to his office I was parched. I asked for some water and he grabbed a FIJI (not what he was drinking) in a single-use plastic container and handed it to me.
I was really [...]
Sea of Trash (NYT)
Jun 22, ’08
6:07 AM
Sea of TrashBy Donavan Hohn, New York Times
Off Gore Point, where tide rips collide, the rolling swells rear up and steepen into whitecaps. Quiet with concentration, Chris Pallister decelerates from 15 knots to 8, strains to peer through a windshield blurry with spray, tightens his grip on the wheel and, like a skier negotiating moguls, [...]