Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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• Chris Jordan– Midway

  
  Photography for a Greener Planet — Authority: 100
  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the North Pacific Gyre, is now twice the size of Texas, and still many people are not yet aware of it. The patch is a result of marine pollution such as dumping from large ships, as well as every day litter on beaches and coast. But most of it, believe it or not, is garbage ...
  1 week ago

• The Promising Potential of Bio-based Plastics (part 2)

  
  Anton Steeman — Authority: 112
  One of the main drivers to develop bio-based plastics is the goal to provide the market with biodegradable plastics, in order to solve the problem of rapidly increasing amounts of waste and limited landfill capacities. Although in some densely populated industrialized countries with limited landfill capacity, waste is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Okay, So It’s Not the Cover of the Rolling Stone, But Still…

  
  Fake Plastic Fish — Authority: 487
  Have you ever written a letter to the editor? It’s something each of us could do, and with the Internet, it’s easier than ever.   So why was last month the first time I ever tried it? Oh sure, I leave comments on blogs and online newspaper web sites, but I had never sent a letter to be published in print until ...
  2 weeks ago

• 15 Beautiful Examples Of Infographics For Your Inspiration

  
  Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver — Authority: 532
  Today I have compiled a showcase of 15 great looking infographics for your inspiration. Infographics are basically a graphical representation of data. In other words, a fun graph. Here are 15 of the best ones I could find. These are truly inspirational. What infographic do you like the best? Plus, if you have found ...
  2 weeks ago

• poison

  
  spincitydotorg — Authority: 431
  Following up on a post yesterday on the New York Times about The Pacific Garbage Patch , I was reminded of a photo essay I stumbled across back in October. Sad shit people. We are really fucking this place over.
  4 weeks ago

• An Interview with Photographer Chris Jordan

  
  OppGreen Insights — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pacific Gyre

  
  All New Phawville — Authority: 427
  Pacific Gyre is the place where Laysan Albatrosses die because of eating plastic. No, plastics are not their staple food but they are mistaken for food. Plastics available range from cigarette lighters to bottle caps. They are found in the infamous great Pacific garbage patch which spans thousands of miles across ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - A Primer

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Michael Arms In recent months, media outlets and some celebrities have turned the spotlight on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch . Last August, a team of scientists, oceanographers, researchers, and ocean-lovers set sail in an expedition, known as the Project Kaisei , to the area to find out more about the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Keep the Oceans Clean?

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Luigi Kleinsasser The relationship of the Oceans to Planet Earth is the same as Man’s lungs are to life. Just as our lungs purify our blood, the oceans absorb massive quantities of pollutants, not only from the air, but from the land as run-off from rainfall. And, just as, if Man’s lungs fail, death is ...
  5 weeks ago

• Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 28

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 474
  There are more trees out there than previously thought .  Carbon emissions may soon be offset with a text message .  Tractor-trailers might be going green (really?).  It’s a yucky, rainy morning here in Cool Green Science Land, so let’s brighten it up with some nice, happy (for the most part) green news : ...
  5 weeks ago

• If you have a Heart

  
  The Best Shark Dive in the World! — Authority: 416
  Somebody just sent me this link.The title of the message was if you have a heart, these images will disturb you - and yes, they do! Very much so!Its a local tragedy affecting a colony of Laysan Albatross - but much more than that, its a terrible tragedy affecting the Oceans in their entirety.I googled plastic ocean ...
  6 weeks ago

• Sailing into the Horror

  
  Orbit Trap — Authority:
  The Garbage Path by Guido Cavalcante [Click on the image above to see a large-scale version.] Editors Note: This is a guest posting by Guido Cavalcante. His image was made using Ultra Fractal. Excerpts in this post were taken from "Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic...Are We?" by Susan Casey. For ...
  6 weeks ago

• Damage Cost of Ocean Garbage in Asia-Pacific: more than $1 Billion per year

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 581
  According to a new report commissioned by the Marine Resource Conservation working group of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), ocean debris in the region has been increasing in spite of mitigating factors to stem the pollution. In fact, there even is a sprawling mass of garbage-littered water known as the ...
  6 weeks ago

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