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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:01:58 +0000 en hourly 1 Plastiki, the plastic bottle boat, to set sail http://aquafornia.com/archives/22148 http://aquafornia.com/archives/22148#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:22:00 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=22148 http://aquafornia.com/archives/22148/feed 0 Environmentalist: It’s becoming a plastic world http://aquafornia.com/archives/21564 http://aquafornia.com/archives/21564#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:59:49 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=21564 http://aquafornia.com/archives/21564/feed 0 Chesbro bill seeks to fight spread of ocean garbage http://aquafornia.com/archives/21280 http://aquafornia.com/archives/21280#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:44:27 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=21280 http://aquafornia.com/archives/21280/feed 0 A sea of plastics http://aquafornia.com/archives/21082 http://aquafornia.com/archives/21082#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:59:29 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=21082 http://aquafornia.com/archives/21082/feed 0 Trash floats eco-warrior’s boat: David de Rothschild plans to sail the Plastiki, his catamaran made of soda bottles, to the giant floating garbage patch in the Pacific to publicize environmental woes http://aquafornia.com/archives/20751 http://aquafornia.com/archives/20751#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:11:43 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=20751 http://aquafornia.com/archives/20751/feed 0 Committed to cleaning the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ http://aquafornia.com/archives/17457 http://aquafornia.com/archives/17457#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:01:45 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=17457 http://aquafornia.com/archives/17457/feed 0 Dan Bacher: Schwarzenegger’s MLPA: Marine life guardians or corporate privateers? http://aquafornia.com/archives/16279 http://aquafornia.com/archives/16279#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:49:08 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=16279 http://aquafornia.com/archives/16279/feed 0 Editorial: Who’ll clean ocean? http://aquafornia.com/archives/16277 http://aquafornia.com/archives/16277#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:47:06 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=16277 http://aquafornia.com/archives/16277/feed 0 Afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash http://aquafornia.com/archives/15169 http://aquafornia.com/archives/15169#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:35:10 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=15169 http://aquafornia.com/archives/15169/feed 0 Plastic, plastic everywhere, nor any bite to eat: Pacific albatrosses feast on garbage patch offerings http://aquafornia.com/archives/14290 http://aquafornia.com/archives/14290#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:59:00 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=14290 http://aquafornia.com/archives/14290/feed 0 Crew knows where the ocean trash goes http://aquafornia.com/archives/12984 http://aquafornia.com/archives/12984#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:26:23 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=12984 http://aquafornia.com/archives/12984/feed 0 Yolo County Creek cleanup day to keep trash from flowing to the sea http://aquafornia.com/archives/11313 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11313#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:50:56 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=11313 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11313/feed 0 Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers http://aquafornia.com/archives/11257 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11257#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:11:54 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=11257 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11257/feed 0 Millions of tons of plastic debris floating in oceans is now thought to be toxic http://aquafornia.com/archives/11091 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11091#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:59:04 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=11091 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11091/feed 0 The North Pacific Gyre: 100 million tons of garbage and growing http://aquafornia.com/archives/11020 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11020#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:36:55 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=11020 http://aquafornia.com/archives/11020/feed 0 Pacific Ocean houses world’s biggest landfill http://aquafornia.com/archives/10751 http://aquafornia.com/archives/10751#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:57:17 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=10751 http://aquafornia.com/archives/10751/feed 1 Texas-sized patch of plastic debris draws activist attention http://aquafornia.com/archives/10630 http://aquafornia.com/archives/10630#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:59:10 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=10630 http://aquafornia.com/archives/10630/feed 0 Researchers launch study of ocean garbage patch: Scripps, Project Kaisei set sail on 4-week, $1.1 million inquiry http://aquafornia.com/archives/10536 http://aquafornia.com/archives/10536#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:42 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=10536 http://aquafornia.com/archives/10536/feed 0 Plastiki, a ship of plastic bottles, hopes to send eco-message http://aquafornia.com/archives/9762 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9762#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:17:48 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=9762 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9762/feed 0 Voyage to the Pacific Ocean’s ‘Garbage Patch’ http://aquafornia.com/archives/9561 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9561#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:05:51 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=9561 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9561/feed 0 De-mystifying the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” or “Trash Vortex” http://aquafornia.com/archives/9266 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9266#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:42:18 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=9266 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9266/feed 0 Dan Haifley, Ocean Backyard: Can the Pacific’s plastic wasteland be fixed? http://aquafornia.com/archives/9086 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9086#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 14:12:46 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=9086 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9086/feed 0 Ocean, interrupted: How single-use plastics are littering the ocean and disrupting the food web http://aquafornia.com/archives/9045 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9045#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 15:02:45 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=9045 http://aquafornia.com/archives/9045/feed 1 Voyage to the centre of the ‘Plastic Vortex’ http://aquafornia.com/archives/8942 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8942#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 15:07:23 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=8942 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8942/feed 0 The plastics “out there” [in the ocean] and “in here” [inside our homes and our bodies] http://aquafornia.com/archives/8719 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8719#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 14:51:42 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=8719 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8719/feed 0 The Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, twice the size of France: There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world’s oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up, so how do we turn the tide? http://aquafornia.com/archives/8418 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8418#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:15:15 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=8418 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8418/feed 0 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The world’s biggest landfill http://aquafornia.com/archives/8288 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8288#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:59:32 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=8288 http://aquafornia.com/archives/8288/feed 0 Trash choking the world’s seas, and waters off Santa Cruz no exception http://aquafornia.com/archives/7456 http://aquafornia.com/archives/7456#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:04:51 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=7456 http://aquafornia.com/archives/7456/feed 0 Bills target ocean waste: Lawmakers again seek to ban foam food containers, unattached bottle caps http://aquafornia.com/archives/7412 http://aquafornia.com/archives/7412#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:06:06 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=7412 http://aquafornia.com/archives/7412/feed 0 Boat made of plastic bottles to make ocean voyage http://aquafornia.com/archives/7394 http://aquafornia.com/archives/7394#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:57:24 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=7394 http://aquafornia.com/archives/7394/feed 0 World’s oceans face problem of plastic pollution; Some researchers believe that more than 5 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean has become a soup of plastic confetti http://aquafornia.com/archives/5511 http://aquafornia.com/archives/5511#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:48:03 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=5511 http://aquafornia.com/archives/5511/feed 0 Turning discarded plastic into art: exhibition hopes to focus attention on plastic consumption http://aquafornia.com/archives/5414 http://aquafornia.com/archives/5414#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:59:26 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=5414 http://aquafornia.com/archives/5414/feed 1 Synthetic sea: We are turning our oceans into a chemical soup – the result being misery and death for billions of organisms, and serious health implications for ourselves http://aquafornia.com/archives/4905 http://aquafornia.com/archives/4905#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:16:56 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=4905 http://aquafornia.com/archives/4905/feed 1 Plastic ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch http://aquafornia.com/archives/4848 http://aquafornia.com/archives/4848#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:10:01 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=4848 http://aquafornia.com/archives/4848/feed 0 Plastic marine debris destined to worsen, says report http://aquafornia.com/archives/4807 http://aquafornia.com/archives/4807#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:12:20 +0000 Aqua Blog Maven http://aquafornia.com/?p=4807 http://aquafornia.com/archives/4807/feed 0