Video - Charles Moore at TED

Everyone who sees this VIDEO says "Yikes!".

Watch Captain Charles Moore (of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation) talk at TED about how discarded plastic debris floats around the Pacific, and finally 'lands' in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash.

Online Education Resources on Marine Debris

NOAA has assembled a page with links to non-NOAA educational resources.

See either:

• http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/outreach/pdfs/otherres.pdf
• http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/outreach/otherres.html

Source: NOAA - Marine Debris

Art - Running the Numbers

Look at some amazing art by Chris Jordan depicting the sheer quantities of our consumption of 'stuff'.

• Running the Numbers - An American Self Portrait
• Running the Numbers II - Portraits of global mass culture

Source: http://www.chrisjordan.com

If you'd like to see Chris Jordan in person, see his February 2009 presentation at TED.