Ayangue, Ecuador Becomes Second BlueCommunities Location In Ecuador
Think of biodiversity in Ecuador, and you are likely to make a mental hop straight to the Galapagos Archipelago, world renowned for its natural splendor, and for being a cradle for the genius of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory.
Dear Friends:
As I write this, I’m celebrating the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday with my family and friends. It’s a day in which gratitude comes to the forefront, and not just for the things I am fortunate to have in my personal life, but also for those that I enjoy through my work at Plastic Oceans International … which are all made possible through the generosity of others.
Mangroves Are Efficient Carbon Absorbers that Also Offer A Strong ROI for Communities
The economic benefits of mangrove restoration outweigh the costs, according to a novel study published earlier this year in Nature Communications.
These findings challenge the generally held assumption that commercialising nature has to involve extraction, instead proving that – at least when it comes to mangroves – nature is more valuable when left alone.
Malibu, CA, November 11, 2021 – Plastic Oceans International announces today that production has been completed on The Erie Situation, a new feature-length documentary, produced with Great Lakes Outreach Media, that explores the toxic algal blooms of Lake Erie – an issue facing freshwater sources worldwide.
November 4, 2021 – Malibu, California – Today, Plastic Oceans International officially announces Los Angeles as their sixth branch location, joining other satellite operations in Canada, Chile, Europe, Mexico and the Great Lakes region of the United States.
Halloween: sweets; skeletons; screams.
And did we mention sweets?
All of which, in modern day living, tend to come accompanied in some way, shape or form, by the usual blight of our modern times: plastic.
But reducing your plastic impact this Halloween doesn’t have to be hard or even lessen the fun. It might even add to your participation and enjoyment of this most unique of celebrations.
A new publication in conjunction with Rolf Halden, from Arizona State University’s Center for Environmental Health Engineering at the Biodesign Institute, and Plastic Oceans International, reveals how time is often an overlooked element when it comes to studying plastic pollution [1].
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, Malibu, CA – Plastic Oceans International is pleased to announce the world premiere of Against the Current, a feature-length documentary, narrated by actor Matthew Modine, that chronicles the story of South Africa’s Sarah Ferguson becoming the first person ever to swim around Easter Island nonstop.
“Without education we will be stuck in a never-ending cleanup,” says Mora Siregar, co-founder and co-director of MUDFISH NO PLASTIC, another recent member of the Plastic Oceans’ BlueCommunities global family.
In saying this, Mora strikes at the core of the plastic waste issue, that unless proactive investment is made into the future generations, we will be forced to continue in the same unending hamster wheel of mitigation.
There are few experiences which link individuals across history, continents and classes, quite like that of the itinerant, public market.
Whereas individual points of sale – buying, selling or bartering at a fixed point – have also been in evidence throughout history, what sets the experience of the market apart is the fact that it is necessarily a collective event. The only way markets exist and survive is if they engender a kind of happening, a drawing together of society at a particular point and place. Something you have to make a date for, organize yourself around. To shop at a market, you have to want to be a part of it, shed yourself to the collective.
