Posts Tagged ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
Canoeing to Save the Oceans
She’s at it again! 43-year old New Jersey mom, Margo Pellegrino, is canoeing the entire length of an American coastline to help save the oceans.
Specifically, Pellegrino is hoping to raise awareness of plastic that is building in our earth’s waters, particularly in the ocean’s gyres. Massive amounts of discarded plastic are carried along ocean currents [...]
Eco-Voyage on the Plastiki
If you’ve heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, you are aware of the devastating impact plastic can have on the environment. To that end, we have urged discontinued use of individual serving water bottles and conscientious consumer decision-making to pre-cycle.
Yet, now there is news of some plastic bottles that should go into the ocean. [...]
Plastic Is Forever In The North Pacific Gyre
By now most of us have heard about the horrendous mountain of plastic swirling around in the North Pacific Gyre (aka the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” or “The Horse Latitudes.” ) It’s an area in the Pacific Ocean that earlier generations of mariners avoided with good reason. Topical weather, slow, swirling equatorial currents, and lack [...]
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Solar Rebates Offered by the City of Edmonton, Alberta
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Saving Sea Otters
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- Solar-Powered School Buses2010 is turning out to be the year of the electric vehicle. With back to school season in full swing, kids in Wisconsin can soon get a lesson in energy efficiency before they even reach the school steps. A new fleet of plug-in electric hybrid school buses will be transporting students in the Oconomowoc school [...] […]
- Solar Energy DisadvantagesI’m sure that we can all agree that finding reliable alternative energy sources is critical in the coming decades. Regardless of whether you believe that the planet is warming, we simply cannot continue to burn fossil fuels as if they will always be available for our use. Obviously, I’m a proponent of solar power since [...] […]
