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EarthTalk

Plastic Waste: Are We Stuck With It Forever?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer bio-plastic, biodegradable, bioplastic, Circular Design Challenge, gyre, Ideo, marine, ocean, plastic, plastic waste, waste, wildlife

Getting rid of plastic waste across the board is unrealistic, but learning how to use less plastic overall — and recycle the rest — may be our best hope.

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Plastic in the Ocean: Too Late To Fix?

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss Boyan Slat, debris, garbage, gyre, ocean, Pacific, patch, plastic, The Ocean Cleanup

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat hopes his marine plastic collector will help solve the growing problem of too much plastic in the ocean.

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Strawless in Seattle: Why Are Straws So Bad for the Environment?

Georgina Guiney all natural, biodegradable, biodegrade, gyre, marine, ocean, oceans, plastic, straw, strawless, wildlife

Strawless in Seattle: the average American uses 38,000+ straws over a lifetime without thinking about the implications of all this plastic going to waste.

Currents

Rallying Against Land Grabs at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase Escalante

Roddy Scheer Atlantic, Bears Ears, Cascade-Siskiyou, Center for Biological Diversity, conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, Gold Butte, Grand Canyon Trust, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Hopi, Indian, Katahdin, Maine, national monument, Native American, Navajo Nation, Nevada, New Mexico, ocean, Oregon, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Pacific, Patagonia, Pueblo of Zuni, Rio Grande del Norte, rollback, Rose Atoll, Sierra Club, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, Trump, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Wilderness Society

Greens are already fighting Trump’s new executive orders revoking protections on millions of acres within ten U.S. national monuments…

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Eco-Friendly Products Put Ocean Plastic Waste to Good Use

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Dell, Edible Six Pack, envision plastics, G-Star RAW, gyre, Lush, method, ocean, ocean waste, oceans, Pacific, Pharrell Williams, plastic, saltwater brewery, sea, trash, waste, XPS 13

Method Home, Lush, Dell, G-Star RAW and Norton Sunglasses are among the companies putting plastic ocean waste to use in their products & packaging.

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E-Waste Nightmare: Cell Phones Getting Greener But Not There Yet

Georgina Guiney Apple, dump, e-Stewards, e-waste, electronic, ewaste, Fairphone, Greenpeace, landfill, ocean, sea, waste

We generate 50 million tons of e-waste around the world annually, much of which ends up improperly disposed of in landfills where toxins can leach out…

Green Tech

Cora Ball: Washing Fleece Without Guilt

Roddy Scheer Cora Ball, Coral, corwdfund, crowdfunding, food chain, fuzz, gyre, Kickstarter, laundry, lint, non-profit, ocean, plastic, plastics, reef, Rozalia Project, sea, upcycle

The Rozalia Project’s Cora Ball works in any washing machine by catching plastic microfibers so they can’t flow out with the drain water.

Under Water

Interview: Jonathan White Explores The Science & Spirit of Ocean Tides

E The Environmental Magazine Arctic, China, energy, France, Indians, Inuit, Jonathan White, Kuna Yala, Mt. St. Michel, Normandy, ocean, Qiantang River, rights, Scotland, tidal, tidal resonance, tide, tides, wave, waves

In his new book Tides, author & conservationist Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides…

EarthTalk

Wave Power Could Meet 1/4 of U.S. Electricity Needs

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Aguçadoura Wave Park, electricity, energy, farm, Hawaii, Lockheed Martin, Oahu, ocean, Ocean Power Technologies, OPT, Pelamis, power, renewable, renewables, tidal, U.S. Navy, wave

Wave power could account for a quarter or more of U.S. electricity needs if we work to develop its potential around our coastlines, and could also provide other countries with a readily available renewable and free energy source.

Warming World

Carbon Tax Reduces Warming, Plastic Pollution

Sarah "Steve" Mosko carbon tax, citizens climate lobby, climate change, global warming, gyre, microbeads, ocean, plastic, pollution, World Economic Forum

A carbon tax is a win-win for people and the planet, as it helps reduce both climate change and ocean pollution by aligning polluters’ incentives with the environment goals of society.