plastic pollution

In his final throes as “Worst Environmental President Ever,” W shocked the world when he designated nearly 200,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean as conservation areas. According to ocean conservationist and educator Jean-Michel Cousteau
and the above linked Guardian article, it was at a White House presentation on the… Read the rest

Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, discovered the North Pacific Gyre in 1997. Here you’ll find Algalita crew member Anna Cummins’ account of her trip to the North Pacific Gyre. Originally printed in Wend Volume 3 Issue 4, “Sailing the Synthetic Sea” is the only first-hand account … Read the rest

Congrats to our friends Anna and Marcus who just finished up their epic 2,000 mile journey to educate about the environmental and health hazards of plastic pollution.
From JUNKRide:

Crossing the border into Tijuana, JUNKride completed a 2 ½ month, 2,000-mile cycling/speaking tour from Vancouver, Canada to the Mexico border, … Read the rest

Plastics are destroying our oceans, and yet it has taken a long time to get communities and governments to commit to working towards gleaning us off of our plastic dependency. To expose the issue on large scale, a team of Algalita Marine Research Foundation staff set sail last year from… Read the rest