TEDxNewy 2011 - Tim Silverwood - How did our lives become so plastic?
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In July 2011, Tim Silverwood sailed 5000km from Hawaii to Vancouver to research and document the accumulation of plastic in the infamous North Pacific Gyre, otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Tim, a keen surfer, developed a love affair with the ocean from a young age and has since become an advocate and activist of the need to p... Read more
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Tim Silverwood - How did our lives become so plastic?
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In July 2011, Tim Silverwood sailed 5000km from Hawaii to Vancouver to research and document the accumulation of plastic in the infamous North Pacific Gyre, otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Tim, a keen surfer, developed a love affair with the ocean from a young age and has sinc...
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- -: Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic
February 25, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas. TEDTalks is a daily video po...
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- -: Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific
April 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Five years ago, Roz Savage quit her high-powered London job to become an ocean rower. She's crossed the Atlantic solo, and just started the third leg of a Pacific solo row, the first for a woman. Why does she do it? Hear her reasons, both deeply personal and urgently activist. ...
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- -: Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
October 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives -- and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world...
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- -: Greg Stone: Saving the ocean one island at a time
November 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Aboard Mission Blue, oceanographer Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of the Pacific -- protecting fish, sealife and the island nation itself. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic
January 21, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries "first and worst," with consequences we all share no matter where we live and what we earn. At TEDxGPGP, he offers...
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- -: Gerald Ford-Address at the University of Hawaii (December 7, 1975)
July 20, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)President Ford addresses the audience regarding Hawaii's importance as a crossroad between the United States and the major Pacific nations.
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- -: Democrats Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May 31, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In commemoration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Democrats produced this video featuring young up and coming activists and organizers from the community.
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- -: Rupert Murdoch: Australia Should Join NATO
January 13, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/02/Rupert_Murdoch_Australia_in_the_Century_of_Opportunity News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch says NATO should be reformed to include Australia because of its strategic position near Asia. Murdoch argues that world threats have expanded beyond the...
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- -: Do Uninsured Patients Make Better Medical Decisions?
March 3, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/16/Debate_Providing_Affordable_Quality_Healthcare Colorado doctor Mike Fallon argues that patients who do not pay directly for health care tend to drive up the overall costs of medicine by requesting unnecessary procedures. Conversely, patients who pay o...
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