The Erie Situation recently made its world premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it had three great screenings and took home the award for top film at the Global Health Competition.
On Monday, April 18, director David J. Ruck joined The Sound of Ideas show on Cleveland’s NPR station, WKSU. Host Rick Jackson interviewed David about the film and the toxic algal blooms that it examines. Enjoy the full interview here:
How does the ocean make you feel? Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How to combine both to inspire conservation?
These are some of the questions explored through the conversations and stories in this article.
“I have encountered a lot of plastic; too much plastic,” says Sarah Ferguson, as she describes her encounters with the ever-present scourge of modernity on her newest epic, which is dubbed the One Ocean Swim – which will see here swim from Durban to Cape Town, in her native South Africa.
Environmental storytelling is in some ways both a very old as well as a very young medium. Every story ever told involves the environment in some way, but really the urgency of and challenges related to this kind of communication are also starkly fresh, reaching back perhaps no further than two generations.
New Documentary Examines the Global Issue of Toxic Algal Blooms Through the Lens Of One Lake Erie Community
March 25, 2022 – Malibu, CA – Plastic Oceans International and Great Lakes Outreach Media are proud to announce that the world premiere of their new documentary, The Erie Situation, will take place on April 3, 2022, at the Cleveland International Film Festival.
March 18, 2022 – Malibu, California – Today Plastic Oceans International announces that this year’s Trees & Seas Festival, which is an annual celebration uniting ocean and forest conservation around the globe, will be held September 16 – 25, 2022.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been one year since Plastic Oceans International launched the BlueCommunities initiative. Time certainly has gone by fast, which is a testament to the steady growth and accomplishments of what is being built.
As the Director of Science for Plastic Oceans International, it’s my job to stay up to date on the latest science surrounding the health of our oceans and our planet in general. The 2022 UN Climate Change Report was just released depicting observations and recommendations from the world’s top experts on various topics ranging from climate change to human health dynamics.
During the United Nations Environment Assembly, the UN passed a resolution paving the way for a global binding treaty against plastic pollution
The Heads of State, Ministers of environment and other representatives from 175 nations endorsed a resolution to “End Plastic Pollution” and forge an international legally binding agreement (known as a treaty) by 2024. (Source: United Nations Environment Program, unep.org)
“December’s United Nations report on agricultural plastics and their sustainability is a confirmation of a truth we know all too well: that plastic use in all areas of our lives is having a detrimental impact on our health and the health of the planet. We need big industries like agriculture to wake up to the damage, or we will simply be continuing to put ourselves in jeopardy.”
