TED.com has posted artist and PPC Co-founder Dianna Cohen’s inspiring speech from the Mission Blue voyage about Plastic Pollution. Check it out now—if you aren’t already committed, seeing Dianna’s passion about this problem will have you taking the REFUSE pledge and encouraging others too. For years Dianna’s medium was discarded brightly colored plastic bags. As she saw how they slowly broke...

We are delighted to welcome Costa Salvaje / Wild Coast into our growing community of organizations helping each other fight plastic pollution. Costa Salvaje / Wild Coast is a nonprofit on both sides of the Mexican-US border and their mission is to protect and preserve coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias (US state of California and Baja California, Mexico) and in Latin America by Building...

Sea Studios Foundation announces the launch of the Think Beyond Plastics Southern Sail, in partnership with Sealife Conservation, a sailing journey along the California Coast from November 4 to November 21, to raise awareness on plastic pollution in the ocean. The sailing expedition will visit the California coastal communities of Morro Bay (Nov 4), Santa Barbara (Nov 9), Santa Monica (Nov 12),...

eu·phe·mism \ˈyü-fə-ˌmi-zəm\ noun: the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant. Language matters.  In fact, it’s a matter of life and death sometimes. Captain Charlie Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation recounts the meeting when acceptance of the “marine debris” euphemism took hold among agencies...

Manuel Maqueda, cofounder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition was interviewed on October 21st on Live From the Left Coast, a radio show hosted by Angie Coiro on weeknights at 6pm on Green960 AM,  San Francisco. In this interview, Angie Coiro asks Manuel about his recent trip to Midway Atoll with Chris Jordan, which leads to a discussion about plastic pollution in the ocean.   During the talk, Manuel...