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Garbage Unfortunately Never Looked So Good

Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Photography, Mandy Barker, Mandy Barker Photography, Sea Creatures, Garbage Patch, Green Art, Eco Friendly Art, Many Barker Soup, Ocean Debris, Female Artists, UK Arts, Litter, Arts News

"Soup" is a term to describe the layer of plastic garbage suspended in the ocean. Yummy. Mandy Barker's photo series uses real debris collected fr...

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Frivolous Challenge: Nation's Most Progressive Plastic Bag Ban in Peril

Matthew Spiegl | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Jellyfish, Plastic Pollution, Beach, Monterey Bay, Sea Turtle, Plastic Bag Ban, Green, Marine Debris, National Marine Sanctuary, Santa Cruz, Single-Use Plastic Bags, Environment, Beach Cleanup, Ocean Conservation, Litter, Sea Otter, Ocean, Green News
Matthew Spiegl

It's corporate bullying by the plastic industry to make cities and counties think twice before passing environmental laws that cut into their profits, laws that are supported by the majority of residents who prefer to live in clean communities.

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Too Valuable to Toss: Why We Should Partner With Industry to Eliminate Ocean Trash

Vikki N. Spruill | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Clinton Global Initiative, Volunteering, Water Pollution, Ocean Cleanup, Beaches, Beach Cleanup, Ocean Trash, Trash, Oceans, Pollution, Marine Debris, Litter, Video, Impact News
Vikki N. Spruill

The biggest challenge we face in saving our ocean is that so many of the threats are beneath the ocean's surface, literally out of sight and out of mind.

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Woman Fined For Littering Tea Bottles In Man's Yard For Years

AP | Posted 09.15.2011

Read More: Littering Fine, Litter Crime, Kansas Littering, Crime, Environment, Carole Green, Litter Fine, Bonner Springs, Litter, Green News

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- A Kansas woman ticketed for tossing her empty tea bottles in the same yard nearly every day for two years insists there was no ma...

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At A.C.T., The Family That Plays Together Doesn't Always Stay Together

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liliana Duque-Pineiro, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, June Is Bustin? Out All Over, Adam O?Byrne, Mark Rucker, Pratt Family Singers, The Jackson Five, Patrick Lane, Litter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, 19 Kids and Counting, The King Family Show, Nadya Suleman, Shirley Jones, The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, CAREY PERLOFF, Anthony Fusco, Carol Burnett, Harold Pinter, Ashley Wickett, René Augesen, Framingham Dodecatuplets, Dan Clegg, Black Widow Spider, Minnesota Opera, Mrs. Lovett, Carousel, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, Barrymore, Duggar Family, American Conservatory Theater, Andrew Polk, Alexander v. Nichols, Daniel Ostling, Lulu, Brian Clark Jansen, The Osmonds, Jack Willis, Maria Duchowny, Dionne Quintuplets, Donny and Marie, Trapp Family Singers, Pimp, The Andrews Sisters, Kenneth Welsh, The Homecoming, Cougar, Fart Jokes, Richardson Jones, Wesley Balk, Octomom, Redgrave, Arts News
George Heymont

"Home" is a loaded word. For many people it evokes memories of warmth, nostalgia, safety, and security. For others, the home in which they grew up may...

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What's Wrong With 311 in Los Angeles

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sanitation, Tom LaBonge, Litter, Villaraigosa, Good Government, Los Angeles, 311, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles News
Mark Olmsted

Citizens who take the time to keep their neighborhoods clean should not have to jump through hoops. The operator should just send the information where it belongs.

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Top 10 Reactions to My Trashwhispering

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sociology, Trash, Clean-Up, Hollywood, Litter, Service, Impact News
Mark Olmsted

The ten most interesting reactions I get in response to my little hobby of picking up litter while walking my dog every morning.

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Heal the Bay Helps Beaches Year Round

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heal the Bay, Litter, Coastal Cleanup Day, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Cigarette Butts, Runoff, Volunteers, Los Angeles News
Terry Gardner

If everyone took a trash bag and a plastic glove with them to the beach, we could help the ocean for 15 minutes before frolicking in the surf and sand the rest of the day.

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Trash Threatens To Block Three Gorges Gates In China

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miter Gate, Three Gorges Dam, Three Gorges, Environment, Trash, Flooding, China, Yangtze River, Garbage, Litter, World News

BEIJING — Intense flooding has swept thick layers of garbage down the Yangtze River that are threatening to block the gates of the Three Gorges ...

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Pick That Up!

Ryan Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trash, Ryan Mack, The Optimum Institute of Economic Empowerment, Accountability, The-Optimum-Institute-of-Economic-Empowerment, Litter, Impact News
Ryan Mack

On July 10, the Optimum Institute of Economic Empowerment is taking a stand against filthy streets by organizing a community trash cleanup day on Fulton Street in New York.

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How Deep Is Your Eco-Love? Environmental Values Important in Dating and Mating Survey Says

Margaret Morey-Reuner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Relationships, Recycling, Earth Day, Earth Day 2010, Environment, Eco-Chic, Eco-Friendly, Environmental Values, Green Living, Enviromentalism, Environmentally Friendly, Pollution, Litter, Healthy Living News
Margaret Morey-Reuner

Environmental responsibility is gaining traction as a positive character trait and something we consider when it comes to making decisions about the kind of people we want to spend time with.

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Plastic Trash Collects In Atlantic Ocean, Comparable To Great Pacific Garbage Patch

BBC News | Victoria Gill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atlantic Ocean Plastic Trash, North Atlantic Ocean, Sea Education Association, Karen Lavendar Law, Plastic Trash, Plastic Debris, Ocean Trash, Ocean Debris, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Litter, Ocean, Atlantic Ocean Plastic, Green News

Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The region is said to compare with the well-document...

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Every Little Bit Hurts -- Figuring Out Trashy Behavior

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greening Hollywood, Immigrants, Trash, Green Living, Social Class, Litter, Hollywood, Littering, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.

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Birth of a Trash Whisperer

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Serenity Prayer, Griffith Park, Trash, Service, Dogs, Litter, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Within a week I was hooked on collecting trash. I'd found an addiction with a very gentle high but no hangover.

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Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Humanitarian, Grassroots, Department of Interior, No More Deaths Border, Immigration, Border Wall, Humanitarian Aid, Deterrence, Faith-Based, Environmental Degradation, Human Rights, Criminal Justice System, Water, Illegal Immigrants, Doctrine of Necessity, Hurricane Katrina, Alice's Restaurant, Sierra Club, Litter, Politics News
Randall Amster

The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.

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Our Trash, Our Treasure: Make Every Monday Matter

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trash, Ennui, Matthew Emerzian, Spirituality, Election, Tikkun Olam, Every Monday Matters, Learning Cpr, Green Activism, Conservation, Amber Alert, Mentoring a Child, Collective Action, Social Activism, Litter, Green News
Cathleen Falsani

The ideas in the book, Every Monday Matters, are simple -- small acts that collectively add up to an enormous impact for the greater good.

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