Posted on Dec 13 2009 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
(Originally posted on MidwayJourney)
In the Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
A beach cleanup on Midway Atoll made us feel just like Sisyphus.
There are millions of tons of plastics present in our oceans, and these are constantly fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces which...
Posted on Nov 06 2009 by Manuel Maqueda
Canadian videographer Jan Vozenilek was a member of Midway Journey, an expedition to Midway Atoll in September 2009 to document the effects of plastic pollution on baby albatrosses. Midway Journey was led by photographer Chris Jordan and supported by the Plastic Pollution Coalition.
Earlier this week, Jan Vozenilek visited an elementary school in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, where...
Posted on Oct 31 2009 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
Photographer and social activist Chris Jordan has just released a video slide show with of some of his Midway photographs with the music of Christen Lien.
This video was premiered on October 24 at a private event in Malibu, California convened by the Plastic Pollution Coalition and hosted by our friends from The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Composer and viola player Christen Lien played ‘15...
Posted on Oct 26 2009 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
We think that plastic is washed up, and last Friday October 23, 2009 we had the opportunity to rasise the awareness of an audience of 200 people that joined us at the James Bridges Theater on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, for this film series on plastic pollution.
The evening started off with a short introduction by PPC co-founders Lisa Boyle, Dianna Cohen, Manuel Maqueda...
