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Lisa Kaas Boyle

Finding Hope Down in the Dump: A Visit with Tiao Carlos dos Santos, Champion of Rio Garbage Pickers

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.29.2012 | Green
Read More: Lucy Walker, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos, Waste Land, Rio+20 Earth Summit, Jardim Gramacho, Rio De Janeiro, Leila Monroe, Nrdc, Lisa Kaas Boyle, Tiao Carlos Dos Santos, Slater Jewell-Kemker, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Jardim Gramacho is no longer the densely populated village of scavengers and recyclers captured so provocatively in the film Waste Land. One of the largest open-air landfills on the planet, the facility was recently closed just weeks before The Rio + 20 Earth Summit.

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TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch Videos Document Plastic Pollution Crisis and Solutions

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Captain Charles Moore, Plastic Pollution, Annenberg Beach Community House, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Lisa Kaas Boyle, Daniella Russo, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Manuel Maqueda, Dianna Cohen, Earth Island Institute, Tedxgreatpacificgarbagepatch, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive area of plastic waste fragments collected by the swirling natural currents of the Pacific, is a real eye-op...

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