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Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left.... |
Category: Environmental
Captain Moore Paints a Bleak Picture for David Letterman. Now What?
Did you guys see Captain Charles Moore on the David Letterman show Monday night? He laid it all out — the complete picture of what our plastic waste is doing to the ocean and ultimately the food we eat and the climate we depend on — in his usual direct style. I’m amazed that Letterman [...]
Read the full post.Tapped: Even More Arguments Against Bottled Water
I just finished watching the new documentary, Tapped, a polemic against the bottled water industry. As regular Fake Plastic Fish readers know, I’ve written extensively against bottled water myself, providing a multitude of reasons to avoid the stuff: Bottled water is not as strongly regulated as tap water; it requires more energy to bottle [...]
Read the full post.Project Kaisei’s Messages from the Plastic Sea: Products Must Be “Benign by Design”
Inspired by Captain Charles Moore’s tireless efforts to bring attention to the issue of plastic in the ocean, several new organizations and projects have sprung up recently to investigate the Pacific Garbage Patch and to try and find solutions. One of these is Project Kaisei, which conducted an expedition to the North Pacific Gyre [...]
Read the full post.Bringing Ocean Plastic to a Classroom in Benicia
What the heck do I know about teaching kids? What if they won’t listen? What if I say the wrong things?
Those were the worries I had after agreeing to join Water Education Specialist Sue Alfeld in a Bay Area classroom to discuss my journey to cut back on plastic. Organized by The [...]
Reusable Bags & Stainless Steel Bottles: Do our personal changes matter at all?
Note: A version of this post also appears at BlogHer.com.
I’m depressed. Down in the dumps. Anxious and overwhelmed. For over two years I’ve focused on personal change: eliminating disposable plastic from my life, reducing my energy consumption, and living as simply as possible. But when I step out my front [...]
Read the full post.Bottled Water Problem: It’s Not Just The Bottle!
Bottled water companies are under attack. They know their plastic bottles are a problem, and they are working around the clock to fix it. Either by changing the bottles themselves or changing their marketing or both. PepsiCo, for example, just launched it’s “Eco-Fina” bottle to contain Aquafina bottled water. According to Pepsi’s [...]
Read the full post.No Technology is Truly Green: A guest post from Alyssa J. Pasquale
Before you invest in that new “green” computer or purchase those fun solar deck lights, read this insider’s perspective from Fake Plastic Fish reader Alyssa J. Pasquale and consider whether buying new technology is ever truly green. If you have an idea for a guest post, please contact me and let me know. [...]
Read the full post.Captain Moore has one word for you on World Oceans Day: Refuse!
Captain Charles Moore is one of my personal heroes and the man whose work discovering, studying, and bringing the world’s attention to plastics in the oceans changed my own life completely two years ago. So you can bet that when I was invited to attend his presentation at Google in Mountain View last week, [...]
Read the full post.My Video Thank You to Oprah. Please join me!
Did any of you catch Oprah’s Earth Day show?
After interviewing Fabien Cousteau about plastic in the oceans, she had a few “Aha! moments”:
Oprah will think differently about using plastic things: http://www.oprah.com/media/20090422-tows-oprah-plastic
Oprah wants to go beyond washing out her zip lock bags: http://www.oprah.com/media/20090422-tows-oprah-aha-moment
I was excited and moved to see this issue garnering the attention [...]
New FPF Video & Volunteers needed for Bay to Breakers!
Remember last year when I dressed as a Brita filter for the Bay to Breakers to promote the Take Back The Filter Campaign? And remember how I said I wouldn’t do it without at least one volunteer? Tanya and Christa accepted the challenge and were awesome!
This year, I would love to find more volunteers to [...]
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