TEDx - How oceans clean themselves...

Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat, Delft, 1994) combines environmentalism, creativity and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability. Currently working on oceanic plastic pollution, he believes current prevention measures will have to be supplemented by active removal of plastics in order to succeed. With his concept called Marine Litter Extraction, Boyan Slat proposes a radical clean-up solution, for which he won the Best Technical Design award 2012 at the TU Delft.

Where millions of tons of plastic kill ocean life and poison food chains, Boyan sees opportunities to combat this. While researching ocean plastics during school holidays, he performed analysis on various fundamental topics (including particle sizes, plastic/plankton separation and the amount of plastic in the oceans), leading up to the first realistic concept for cleaning up the world's oceans.

Now a first-year Aerospace Engineering student at the TU Delft, Boyan has always been passionate about applying technology in an original way (at age fourteen he set a world record with launching 213 water rockets), and as an (underwater)photographer and videographer witnesses environmental degradation through his very own eyes.

www.boyanslat.com/

Purpose in 5...

Watch the TEDx video &answer the following 5 questions:

1. Who are you?: Name 
2. What do you do?: Core talent (or) What is the one thing right now that you feel supremely qualified to teach other people? 
3. Who do you do it for? 
4. What do they want or need - why do they come to you for this thing?
5. How do they change or transform as a result of what we give them? 

+ Focusing more on the people that we serve most.

"I help people be the solution to social & environmental crises, through the synergetics of collaboration, creative altruism & consumer activism!"

Peace

GROUNDSWELL - Trailer

Groundswell (Trailer) from Patagonia on Vimeo.

THE SKY IS PINK...

THE SKY IS PINK by Josh Fox and the GASLAND Team from JFOX on Vimeo.

An emergency short film from Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND addressing the urgent crisis of drilling and fracking in New York state.

Go to NYAgainstfracking.org for more info and to get involved.

Plastic Pioneer - Mike Biddle...

The Big SHFT: Mike Biddle, Plastics Pioneer from SHFT on Vimeo.

If there was a hall of fame for sustainable business, Dr. Mike Biddle would be one its first inductees. Twenty years ago, the trailblazing plastics engineer launched MBA Polymers in his garage. He was determined to prove that complex polymers from consumer plastics could be recycled into useful raw materials. Mike developed a patented series of techniques for separating and refining plastic waste to produce quality materials for reuse in industry. His innovative recycling process diverts plastic waste from landfills and the ocean while negating the need for new oil-based plastics. Today, MBA Polymers is a global enterprise, with large-scale industrial facilities in the US, Europe and Asia. As one of the leading figures in the recycling revolution, Mike was recently honored with the 2012 Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development, a prestigious prize recognizing him "for combining deep technical expertise and entrepreneurial brilliance with a drive to close the loop." For Mike, it's all about closing the loop on the waste cycle. "I consider myself an environmentalist," he says. "I hate to see plastics wasted. I hate to see any natural resource – even human time – wasted."

I stand...

 
www.350.org

Movement Entrepreneurs...

Jeremy Heimans (@jeremyheimans) is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, the world's leading incubator for social movements and new experiments in mass digital participation. Jeremy has been building movements since he was a precocious little brat in his native Australia, running media campaigns and lobbying politicians from the age of eight on issues like environmental degradation and nuclear proliferation.

His voice has since broken but those global problems persist, so Jeremy co-founded Avaaz.org, the world's largest online political movement with more than 15 million members, and GetUp.org, the Australian political movement with more members than all Australia's political parties combined.

Jeremy now leads the team at Purpose, which has built movements to fight cancer with LIVESTRONG, worked with Jamie Oliver on a national effort to transform our food culture, and launched AllOut.org, a new global movement for LGBT people and their straight friends and family.

The World Economic Forum at Davos has named Jeremy a Young Global Leader and in 2011 he was awarded the Ford Foundation's 75th Anniversary Visionary Award. In 2012, Fast Company named him one of the Most Creative People in Business. Jeremy's career began with strategy consultants McKinsey and Company. He is a graduate of Harvard University and University of Sydney, and is a citizen of Australia and the Netherlands.

Chasing Ice...

Chasing Ice - Official Trailer

Plastic Pacific... Kim Preston

A surreal way of looking at how we are transforming our oceans into plastic world.

 http://photography.kp-creative.com/

Bio Connectivity - Gavin McIntyre TED

Gavin McIntyre is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Ecovative Design. Since the company's start in 2007 he has lead all material and biological process development in the company's strides to replace synthetics. Gavin co-invented Ecovative's patent-pending technology that uses a fungal mycelium to transform agricultural byproducts into strong biological materials. These materials are 100% compostable, and made with a fraction of the energy of conventional plastics.

http://www.ecovativedesign.com/ 

Strong Evidence for Ocean Acidification Impacts in Southern Ocean

Limacina helicina antarctica. Photo by Russ Hopcroft, courtesy of Arctic Ocean Biodiversity, www.arcodiv.org.

For years, researchers have warned that the increasing acidity of the oceans is likely to create a whole host of problems for the marine environment. Most of these warnings were predictions for future decades as well as theories about possible impacts based on experiments under artificial conditions. Now, scientists have discovered proof that ocean acidification is having significant impacts on an Antarctic marine snail, Limacina helicina antarctica, in its natural habitat. This tiny snail hails from a suborder called the “sea butterflies” because they flap their feet like wings as they swim. They’re also known as pteropods. Whatever you want to call them, they are an important component of marine food webs, and provide food for a variety of species.

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Genetic Roulette Movie - Official Trailer

This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.

http://geneticroulettemovie.com

Closing the loop on plastic...

Dr. Michael Biddle goes to 2011 TED Conference to present his company's recycling process as a solution for closing the loop on plastics.

http://www.mbapolymers.com/home/

The GREAT Barrier Reef..?

Australian Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke is telling the media that his government is doing everything they can to save the Great Barrier Reef, but at the same time, they're approving - and considering approving more - coal facilities right on the reef.

This ad calls Tony Burke out. It means that he can't walk both sides of the street anymore, and voters can see exactly what he is approving. Queensland, home to the Great Barrier Reef, is also home to marginal seats at the next Federal Election - so that's where we're focusing. Chip in to help put this on the air on cinema screens and TV screens in crucial electorates:

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/mining/gladstone/watch-this-video-now

Mushrooms, a better plastic..? - Eben Bayer TED

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment. Eben Bayer is co-inventor of MycoBond, an organic (really -- it's based on mycelium, a living, growing organism) adhesive that turns agriwaste into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation.

http://www.ecovativedesign.com/

Air Stream...

Tapped - Official Trailer

Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.

Planned Obsolescence vs Made to Last...

World's 1st Chainless Hybrid Electric Bike..

http://www.mandofootloose.com/