WaterNotes

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 [...]

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.

Using collected marine debris in art installations and outreach collages isn’t exactly a novel concept.  However, it is interesting to see various artists use the materials in ways that demonstrate some hidden truth about the issue of plastic trash.  GOOD Magazine, one of my new favorite online reads, recently posted about a pair of artists [...]

Surfrider Foundation went extreme with their newest PSA video on marine debris for their new Rise Above Plastic campaign. The animation might seem outlandish with its sea of plastics so large it supports the weight of a sperm whale like a swimming pool raft.. but, given all the trash I’ve been cleaning up for One [...]

Today I met up with a good friend, and sometimes editor,  to do a test run for the One Ton Landed cleanups near Titusville. In our brilliance we decided the night before to bring out our kayaks and gear to try for a short paddle and sight additional cleanup spots (as well as look for [...]

The dedicated folks over at the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program are regularly out watching their research pods and groups for behavioral studies on their social interactions and also to learn more about bottlenose dolphin life history.  On occassion, they also get involved in rescue operations. In mid February a team with SDRP noticed one of [...]

I chose a different area to cleanup today along the northern IRL and finally ran across enormous evidence of fish kills that were reported from many of Florida’s coastal waterways following the freeze.  On a single 300 ft stretch of beachline (about a football field length) I found 621 dead burrfish, 5 northern pufferfish, 18 [...]