http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.com/blog Working To Undue The World's Unclaimed Trash Problems Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:44:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been steadily increasing our blogroll and miscellaneous links this past week. We'd love to hear some new recommendations for green/eco/sustainable news, blogs and technologies, media coverage and anything else relative to what we're interested in here.  We'll gladly consider reciprocating links back to your own site if that's something you're ... http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.com/blog/2008/03/07/link-exchange-blogroll-additions-relative-linking-for-seo-and-natural-page-ranking/ We're looking for any and all related imagery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, both east and west. If you have any images or video or know of any sources worth recommending, please let us know, especially if they're royalty free. We're also looking for any related news articles, websites, blogs, ... http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.com/blog/2008/03/07/east-and-west-pacific-garbage-patch-content-request/ 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 ... http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.com/blog/2008/03/06/la-green-drinks-hosts-alguita-crew-members/ We emailed Algalita for some more details and confirmation on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch's existence and here's the explanation we received from Marieta Francis, the Director of Operations at the Algalita Marine Research Foundation: "Thank you for contacting us. Yes, there is an area in the middle of the Pacific ... http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.com/blog/2008/03/04/a-little-qa-with-the-director-of-operations-at-algalita/ The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is really, truly unconscionable. Whether it actually exists is largely questioned by some, while others feel its existence is indisputable. Either way, it blows our minds that nearly every single article we’ve come across in our research states that “There’s nothing we can do about ... http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.com/blog/2008/03/02/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/