Announcing: TEDx “The Global Plastic Pollution Crisis”
Saturday, November 6, 2010, Plastic Pollution Coalition will host TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch, a one-day event that will bring together global thought leaders from the fields of technology, science, arts and entertainment, design, community activism and business in a dialog on the theme of “The Global Plastic Pollution Crisis”.
The Wrecking Season
This film follows playwright, beachcomber and lobsterman Nick Darke, onto the beach during one stormy winter and records all his discoveries, tracing everything he finds along the coastline back to its source, via the telephone and the internet.
PBS Kids to Launch New Web-Based Series About Sustainability
The Story of Stuff’s founder teams up with PBS KIDS to launch a new web-based series about sustainability. The goal is that as kids look at objects and activities in their daily life, they will begin asking: Where does it come from? What is it made of? What happens to it when it’s thrown away?
Ten Things Kids Want Us to Know About Trash on Beaches and Oceans
Fourth-graders in New York City conducted cleanups at a local beach and tallied every item they found on Ocean Conservancy’s data card, an experience shared by hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup.
Experiencing an International Coastal Clean-up Day
Inspiration is often truly found in the most subtle and inconspicuous ways…
Italy Bans the Plastic Water Bottle Along Heritage Coastline
The worst month is August, when an average of 400,000 plastic bottles are discarded along the narrow strip of picturesque World Heritage coast, which lies south of Genoa in the province of Liguria.
Dirty secrets at Britain’s Blue-Flagged Beaches
At least one in four of Britain’s premier bathing beaches are failing to meet the strict requirements of their “Blue Flag” designation, an international standard that is only granted if beach operators meet more than 30 strict criteria.
7 Ways to Kick the Plastic Habits
One real culprit of our oil addiction is plastic, and most of it ends up on our coasts, beaches and oceans.
Annual International Coastal Cleanup Day, 2010
Sign up for the 25th Annual International Coastal Cleanup Day: September 25th, 2010. Be part of the solution to marine and coastal pollution!