What the Garbage Patch Looks Like

Recently, the artist Chris Jordan flew to the Midway Islands to take photographs of dead albatrosses. Why travel so far to take pictures of such a small thing? Jordan wanted to make a point.

The photos he took reminded me of others you might recall. Remember how photos of baby seals were everywhere a few […]

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Trashing the Ocean

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At least one morning every week I run around Strawberry Point in Mill Valley, but on Monday the view of the San Francisco skyline across the Bay was marred by a spread of McDonald’s trash on the ground next to a garbage can. It was being dined on by an […]

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