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

Plastic and Plastic Bottles..convenient for us..not so convenient for the these guys!

MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo.

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