The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This week Green Drinks hosts some very special guests at the Culver City chapter, hosted by the Living Green store.

We mention this here because they have some very special guests this week, actually tonight in fact. We highly recommend you check it out, it’s a great networking night hosted by Barent Roth and friends.

Here’s all the details:
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“As LA Green Drinks grows we want to continue to improve the experience of each event.
This month we experiment with a raffle and a short informal presentation format with some very special guests-

Join us in welcoming back two crew members of the Alguita research vessel,
Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen!

Anna and Marcus will talk briefly about their recent trip and present samples of the floating trash they collected while sailing. We will have a Q&A after their presentation and then they will both be available for further discussion.

The Alguita Research Vessel has just returned from studying the enormous swirling debris of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean, a “Plastic Soup” which has now grown to TWICE the size of the U.S.!
www.orvalguita.blogspot.com

This month LA Green Drinks will be raising money for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, the environmental non-profit organization who chartered the oceanic voyage into the floating trash.
www.algalita.org

Algalita Marine Research Foundation was founded in Long Beach, California by Captain Charles Moore in 1994, and is dedicated to the preservation of the marine environment. With the help of the chartered research vessel, the ORV Alguita, AMRF is actively engaged in innovative research, education programs, and restoration of the marine environment.

Marcus Eriksen, Algalita’s Director of Research and Education, has been deeply involved in plastic marine debris issues since rafting down the length of the Mississippi River on a boat made from recycled plastic bottles. Marcus has given presentations about marine debris issues to schools and communities all over the country, and will continue his public education upon his return, with samples and data “hot off the gyre”.

Anna Cummins - Algalita’s Education Advisor and lone female on board. While working for a marine conservation organization in 2004, Anna met Charles Moore and joined joined Algalita on a research trip to Guadalupe Island. She was forever changed by this opportunity to learn first hand about the far reaching, ecological impacts of disposable plastics.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008
7pm – 10pm
$5 suggested donation
www.livinggreen.com