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Environment
Portland Mayor Sam Adams on the Myth of Recycling and the Cost of Plastic Pollution
This is part 11 of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Sam Adams...
Environment
Beth Terry Bursts Your Bubble: You're Chewing On Plastic
This is part 10 of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Did you know...
Environment
One Beach, One Year: A Trashy Love Story
This is part nine of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Richard...
Environment
Ocean Exploration and Fatherhood in the Age of Plastic
This is part eight of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. I’m...
Environment
Teenage Waste Fans Part Two: Los Angeles's Environmental Charter School
This is part seven of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. The campus...
Environment
Teenage Waste Fans, Part One: Santa Monica’s Team Marine
This is part six of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Traveling...
Environment
Plastic Is Pollution: The Making of an Artist Turned Activist
This is part five of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. “I don’t...
Environment
Ocean Minders: An Interview with Pro Surfers Mary Osborne and Jennifer Flannigan
This is part three Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the first and second installment here and here....
Environment
Taking a Trip to Better Understand the Floating Piles of Garbage in Our Oceans
The writer and environmentalist Stiv Wilson is on a mission to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean, and what he—and the rest of...
The Community Board
On Bottled Water & Filters
I live in a city whos tap water has a nasty chlorine taste when it first comes out of the tap. Now I know that temperature has to with odor and...
Environment
The Story of Bottled Water
From the people who brought you "The Story of Stuff" comes "The Story of Bottled Water." Have a look at the preview after the jump. Looks...
The Community Board
Saving sea turtles at the LA River
The other day I did probably one of the most goody-two-shoes things I’ve ever done: pick up litter. Voluntarily. Not to serve a community service...
Environment
Transparency: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By now, most of us are aware that there is a large patch of floating plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What you may not know is that...
