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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  5 days ago

• Daily Dose Pick: Chris Jordan

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 712
  Artist and photographer Chris Jordan examines the bad habits of human consumption with work that depicts trash in all its incarnations.From a distance, his collections of bottle caps, bullets, or Barbie parts are pleasantly abstract, though carefully orchestrated in their large-scale, long-zoom formats. As a body of ...
  1 week ago

• Ditch the Plastic Bottle, Save Money, Save Lives

  
  Your Daily Thread — Authority: 469
  This past week I was exposed to the photography work of Chris Jordan . He recently returned from an expedition to Midway Island to photograph a shocking scene of what is happening because of human plastic consumption. This fate is not exclusive to Albatrosses, all marine life living near the Pacific Gyre ...
  1 week ago

• Podcast alert

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 428
  Maybe you have yet to read the great Jazz Age poet Hart Crane, put off by his reputation for writing “difficult” poetry, or maybe you read him a while back and think there’s nothing left to say on the subject. Whatever may be the case, this terrific conversation about Crane’s work with the magisterial critic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Midway – message from the gyre

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 471
  One of my favourite photographers, Chris Jordan , has a new project: Midway – message from the gyre :
  2 weeks ago

• Being Green + Being Profitable: Opportunity Green 2009

  
  Caster Blog — Authority: 123
  Having read all of the exciting press coming off last year’s Opportunity Green conference , I was looking forward to attending this year’s event, held in sunny Los Angeles, CA.  Heralded as one of the top green business conferences in the industry, OG09 promised to be a forum to gather with leaders of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is recycled polyester fabric RECYCLABLE?

  
  O ECOTEXTILES — Authority: 108
  Is it true, as one of the leading fabric distributors says of its “green” fabrics made of recycled polyester, that after “years of enjoyable use, these fabrics are recyclable?”   Does buying that fabric really help reduce our dependence on a non renewable resource  and lessen the burden that plastic is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Garbage Island

  
  Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change — Authority: 115
  Dont miss Lindsay Hoshaws spot.us piece in The New York Times on the expanding Pacific Garbage Patch -- what Hoshaw describes as that Texas-sized area of "light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny piece of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice." This floating stew exists in remote ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opportunity Green: Consumption Considerations

  
  The San Franista — Authority: 129
  I’m thankful that my first visit to UCLA is for the Opportunity Green sustainability and profitability conference, and I’ll get to the point on the morning’s content of note: After talking with SF-based artist Beth O’Rourke recently about her creation of repurposed plastic items , it was ...
  3 weeks ago

• An Interview with Photographer Chris Jordan

  
  OppGreen Insights — Authority: 130
  Chris Jordan’s photographic series, Running the Numbers is a powerful visual representation of the vastness of American consumption. He is a respected photographer who has exhibited his work internationally and speaks to audiences the world over about the powerful message behind his work. He says, “As an American ...
  3 weeks ago

• ReCaptivation ~ Can You Help Me?

  
  Zoom About Ellen - video journaling and sharing ways to dream big and live authentically — Authority: 100
  I have been creating recycled bottlecap art for the past couple of years and recently started experimenting with plastic bottlecaps. After seeing Chris Jordans presentation at Poptech on the dying baby albatross chicks on Midway Island, I am even more motivated than ever to build awareness of our plastic ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Art Every Day" Month - Day 3

  
  Marbled Musings — Authority: 121
  Because of the pressures of daily teaching and correcting papers, I made the decision on November 1 to THINK ART every day, so on those days/nights when I was busy with school work, I would still treat myself to viewing some art. Now, that said, most of the art I tend to look at has an interesting math connection. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Message From The Gyre

  
  Caught by the River — Authority: 428
  “These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chris Jordan’s carcass photography

  
  Lost At E Minor: For creative people — Authority: 611
  Seattle-based photographer Chris Jordan’s new work features astounding images of the carcasses and stomach contents of albatross chicks from a remote strip of land in the Northern Pacific ocean, 2000 miles from the nearest continent. The chicks are fed human waste by their parents, who mistake the garbage for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chris Jordan – Receipt for the production of humans

  
  Arts Publishing - Books / Zines & Limited Edition Art Prints — Authority: 114
  Chris Jordan’s photographic work is a receipt for the production of humans. His series Running the Numbers utilizes a mass quantity of objects to make a whole image. When your looking at the image just remember that your one of those specks which makes the portrait. Jordan’s new series entitled Midway – ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Bellyful of Plastic: Chris Jordan Photographs Pacific Birds

  
  New Dream Blog — Authority: 104
  Photographer and New Dream friend Chris Jordan has a talent for catching civilization enacting its values. From his photos of post-Katrina New Orleans to his to-scale models of the plastic bottles that end up in the landfill at an alarming rate, he highlights uncomfortable truths. This has never been more true than ...
  4 weeks ago

• Message from the Gyre

  
  feed speak art blog. — Authority: 129
  Chris Jordan [ Boing Boing ]
  4 weeks ago

• A picture says a thousand words…

  
  Green Living — Authority: 115
  Photographer Chris Jordan and his wife, a poet, Victoria Sloan Jordan took a trip to Midway Island with a group of artists to document and see for themselves firsthand how the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is harming the albatrosses there, who heartbreakingly mistake plastic for food and in turn feed their young ...
  4 weeks ago

• Midway by Chris Jordan

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 483
  all images by Chris Jordan I’ve been completely captivated by Chris Jordan ’s work since discovering his apocalyptic, Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption project. This picture of cell phones. Or this one of cell phone chargers . Or this one of Crushed Cars . Wow, what a comment ...
  4 weeks ago

• Chris Jordan : The Message from Gyre

  
  Trend Land - Fashion & Trends Blogzine — Authority: 610
  A few months ago we introduced you to the fascinating work of photographer and environmentalist Chris Jordan . Here his newest project entitled, "The Message from Gyre", shot at Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. To portray the [...] -> More info & pics for: ...
  4 weeks ago

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