Category: Videos

350 Day on the Beach. Where in the World is Beth?

350.org has released this fantastic video showing actions all over the world that took place on October 24.

So where was I?
The best laid plans sometimes go awry when unknown locations and strange parking fee machines are involved. By the time I got to the beach in Santa Monica for the 350 Day Blogger Beach [...]

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Jackson Browne: Defiant About Bottled Water

Jackson Browne doesn’t appreciate the bottled water industry pumping millions of dollars into advertising to convince us that bottled water is better than tap water. He also happened to be sitting right behind me during the screening of Tapped Friday night at UCLA, one of the events organized by the new Plastic Pollution Coalition [...]

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This Weekend is All About Plastic

I’m leaving tonight for a last minute trip to Los Angeles to participate in activities of the newly formed Plastic Pollution Coalition, of which I am privileged to be an advisor. Whether you live in the L.A. area or not, there are ways to participate.

Is Plastic Washed Up? We think so. And it’s [...]

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Future Weather: Environmental Finalist for Netflix FIND Your Voice Contest needs your votes!

Back in April, I interviewed green filmmaker Jenny Deller about her current project, Future Weather, a coming of age film that deals with both personal as well as environmental crises. This month, we all have an opportunity to view and vote on a representative clip based on the project in the Netflix Find Your [...]

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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, [...]

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Leatherback Sea Turtle friends Plastic Sea Monster at Bay to Breakers 2009 and both win!

No plastic tally this week. Didn’t have time or energy to do it Sunday after WINNING THE COSTUME CONTEST AT THE 2009 BAY TO BREAKERS!
(I’ll add last week’s plastic to my next tally.)
Eli Saddler of Oceanhealth.org and I participated as a leatherback sea turtle and the plastic that kills it in an effort to [...]

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Plastic-free Profiles; B2B Deadline; Looking forward to sleep!

A huge thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of my Thank You Video to Oprah. Whether she ever sees it or not, it’s got a life of its own and wants to travel. So please continue to forward it on, especially to people who don’t normally read blogs. I’m [...]

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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 [...]

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Throwing up Plastic. It’s the Green Moms Carnival!

Welcome to the April edition of the Green Moms Carnival. Fake Plastic Fish is thrilled to be the receptacle of this Pile of Plastic Posts. And speaking of piles of plastic, did you ever wonder what it feels like to throw up a plastic bag? Then you must see this brand new [...]

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And the winner is…

… @greenmoms! Last month, the Green Moms Carnival Group, of which I’m a member (It’s unnecessary to have your own kids or even be female to be in this group!) won the Shorty Award in the Green category for our Twitter ID. Check it out. Several of the green moms even got [...]

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