What is it about the way the ocean moves, reflects, glimmers and glows that mesmerizes and transfixes us? Earlier this summer I gathered a group of leading neuroscientists, ocean explorers, advocates, communicators and creative people together in a room at the California Academy of Sciences to begin to answer this…
On November 5th 2010, Tribal Truth ran an article about Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC), outlining their efforts to combat our society's plastic pollution output by spreading awareness of bio-plastics. In the last year, PPC has continued to develop their outreach and education programs, promoting environmental and social change not only…
The message of plastic pollution is spreading fast around the globe. At the end of June 2011, our Executive Director Daniella Russo led a Plastic Pollution Coalition group on a visit to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala, at the special invitation of Preserve Planet, Jovenes Ambientalistas, SAVIA and G-22. The…
July 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "I've been into turtles since catching them as a kid, and professionally for the past twenty years," Wallace J Nichols, marine biologist and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, tells Ecologist. "The projects I'm attracted to seem to be those considered 'impossible' or 'too late'."…
