WaterNotes

Plastic Pollution Coalition has a brilliant guerilla-style grassroots campaign unfolding in Vancouver at the moment. Plastic Manners is also providing coverage and reactions from the public on the giant plastic six-pack ring found entangled across several of the marine-themed statues that grace the city.  I find the campaign brilliant and inspiring.  It’s hard to deny [...]

Every once in a while I get a chance to share my love of the lagoon with someone who can really appreciate it.. but for one reason or another has not yet been able to really experience it.  A good friend of mine, Eric, decided to meet up with me today along with his lovely [...]

One Ton Landed got a nice bump in the weight totals today with an additional 40 pounds added to the tally. (Unfortunately it was probably more weight than this, but I forgot the scale on my way to the site. )  We returned to the site of our Earth Day cleanup, two extra volunteers/teachers/nerds [...]

Ocean Conservancy released their report on marine debris from the 2009 International Coastal Cleanup, titled Trash Travels: From Our Hands to the Sea, Around the Globe, and Through Time.  The entire report is required reading for anyone interested in a snapshot of what is going on with our beaches and coastal environments.
The top ten most [...]

I’m pretty much speechless about this one. We hear about these impacts on our wildlife and we can theorize that baleen whales will scoop plastic plankton alongside the real stuff, but to see evidence of it really brings home the size of the situation we’re in.

Fascinating, depressingly artistic and provocative.. if you can get past the idea that a plastic bag can yearn for anything, can be happy, or contemplative.  Its a beautiful consideration of our objects, and their fate.  Anyone else starting to notice my total obsession with documentaries lately?
Also intriguing, but totally unrelated to plastic bags: a crocodile [...]

Surfrider Foundation also chose today to release their movie The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water, but for now just a trailer is available online.  The movie is being screened this afternoon and evening in California.  I’ll anxiously await its posting to their blog KnowYourH2O.org for our enjoyment and thought provocation.