Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Synthetic Sea ..... NEW version for 2010 (10:00m video)

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, September 3, 2010

Synthetic Sea ..... NEW version for 2010 (10:00m video)

Algalita Marine Research Foundation.

Earlier this morning I tuned into Bloomberg TV program to listen to a Wall Street expert talking about the necessity of more consumption, either in the US or China, in order to drive the economy. Then I watched this. Do you see any contradiction between the type of economy we have and a healthy ecological system?

Captain Charles Moore describes the marine debris research he has conducted on behalf of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation over the past 12 years.
Current concerns include the ubiquitous presence of endocrine disrupting
synthetics in the marine environment, with pollutant loads being transferred up the food chain to haunt fish, cetaceans and humans.