Comments on: Live Blogging OG09: Chris Jordan’s Photography Presentation http://opportunitygreen.com/green-business-blog/2009/11/07/live-blogging-og09-chris-jordans-photography-presentation/ An Edge on the New Green Economy Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:34:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan http://opportunitygreen.com/green-business-blog/2009/11/07/live-blogging-og09-chris-jordans-photography-presentation/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 Alan Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:52:05 +0000 http://opportunitygreen.com/green-business-blog/?p=1334#comment-3631 How can something like this happen to one of the remotest places in the world? Just think, long after the bird's remains are gone, all that plastic will still be there to kill again... How can something like this happen to one of the remotest places in the world? Just think, long after the bird’s remains are gone, all that plastic will still be there to kill again…

]]> By: J A Ginsburg http://opportunitygreen.com/green-business-blog/2009/11/07/live-blogging-og09-chris-jordans-photography-presentation/comment-page-1/#comment-3615 J A Ginsburg Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:55:41 +0000 http://opportunitygreen.com/green-business-blog/?p=1334#comment-3615 Hello, I was fortunate enough to see Chris Jordan's "Midway: Message from the Gyre" photograph at PopTech a couple of weeks ago. Stunning... A few related links: The slideshow on YouTube (unfortunately, Chris has a masked url on his website so every single page has the same url...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqJ6FLfaJc&feature=player_embedded There is also a very good "Midway Journey" project website / blog: http://www.midwayjourney.com/ The team also included filmmakers, a poet and an activist. The latter, Manuel Maqueda, founded the Plastic Pollution Coalition: http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/about/ Right now on http://www.TrackerNews.net, an aggregator that focuses on health issues, humanitarian work and technology, we have a large group of links on plastic pollution (the site changes regularly, but all the links go into a searchable database). Perhaps the most shocking stat for me is that the world will have produced as much plastic in the first decade of the 21st century as in the entire 20th century. Not good... http://tinyurl.com/yc7l8zh Hello,

I was fortunate enough to see Chris Jordan’s “Midway: Message from the Gyre” photograph at PopTech a couple of weeks ago. Stunning…

A few related links:
The slideshow on YouTube (unfortunately, Chris has a masked url on his website so every single page has the same url…): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqJ6FLfaJc&feature=player_embedded

There is also a very good “Midway Journey” project website / blog: http://www.midwayjourney.com/ The team also included filmmakers, a poet and an activist. The latter, Manuel Maqueda, founded the Plastic Pollution Coalition: http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/about/

Right now on http://www.TrackerNews.net, an aggregator that focuses on health issues, humanitarian work and technology, we have a large group of links on plastic pollution (the site changes regularly, but all the links go into a searchable database). Perhaps the most shocking stat for me is that the world will have produced as much plastic in the first decade of the 21st century as in the entire 20th century. Not good… http://tinyurl.com/yc7l8zh

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