Recycled plastic boat to sail 11,000 miles the new york times. The craft was built using cradle to cradle design philosophies and features many renewable energy systems, including. It may go back into another boat, in clothing, in a funky pair of shoes, he said. The plastiki, a catamaran built of recycled plastic bottles journeys across the pacific. A home inscribed with the history of venice beach the.
He had already established himself as an adventurer ever since his first major expedition as a young man trekking across antarctica, but this trip was different. Plastiki book captures boats epic ocean journey photos. The plastiki vessel was built from discarded plastic bottles. The whole world in his hand tracking the plastikis epic. Ocean heroes is launching its firstever regional bootcamp, december 6, in the caribbean to give young leaders howto training on protecting the oceans and fighting against plastic pollution. With numerous adventures, three books, a hit television series, and. My training at the moment consists of reading lots of b.
Download plastiki book pdf epub mobi tuebl and read online. Author of the book the live earth global warming survival handbook. Sailing on plastic, an adventure to give our oceans a voice. Phoenix ark press are delighted to reblog a version of an article that appeared in the independent, and extracts from the diary will be blogged over the coming week. Alarmed by the devastating impact of plastic pollution in the ocean, the ecoadventurer built the plastiki, a boat made. Remaking the way we make things, by william mcdonough, an american environmental architect, and michael braungart, a german.
Being born into such a wealthy family, david had everything he couldve asked for. Sailed a boat, the plastiki, made entirely of recycled plastic. The voyage of the plastiki environment the guardian. Scattered throughout your fantastic book plastiki are deeply alarming facts related to plastic and how the accumulation of it impacts marine life. Mar 16, 2011 plastiki is an important book that tells the story of plastic pollution in our oceans. The plastiki successfully completed its journey to sydney on 26 july 2010. I sent an email to my friends and family and announced. Meet the remaining heirs of the legendary rothschild dynasty. We wrote about the trip from san fran to sydney in a boat made from thousands of plastic bottles. It was sailed from san francisco to australia to draw attention to the overuse of plastics in our society. The ecoadventurer tells circle of blue how sailing the plastiki across the. A home inscribed with the history of venice beach the new. David is leading a new generation of actionoriented change makers and reigniting a collective spirit of hope that the fate of our planet can be rewritten.
Tracking the plastikis epic ocean journey cbs news. He made a boat out of 12,500 2liter plastic bottles and named it plastiki to raise awareness of how waste can be used for various purposes rather than be thrown away. Complete with stories of the inspirations for the project, as well as memories of the construction of the boat, and of course, the journey itself, plastiki is the definitive tome about a project. Over the last few months, day in and day out, ive been breathing, sleeping and eating all things blue aboard the plastiki. Solar panels tracking the plastikis epic ocean journey.
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