Turning The Tides (TTT) is a grass-roots nonprofit organization based out of Juneau, Southeast Alaska, striving to raise awareness about ocean issues and to promote ocean-friendly practices, clean-up efforts, waste reduction and sustainability.
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Turning The Tides How to build and race plastic boats. By Marcus Eriksen.
10 boats participated in the first annual Lake Erie Boat Float in Oct. 2009. 2 sank and one drifted away. Not bad! Check out www.lakeerieboatfloat.org.
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Tapped a film that examines the role of
the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate
change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.
http://www.tappedthemovie.com/
Source: www.tappedthemovie.com
Tapped examines the role of the bottled water industry and its' effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil. Produced by Atlas Films
Cachet Garrett I'm so excited for our plastic-free week!!! Listen to Cachet and Anji on KTOO today at 3:15 discussing this week-long event. Yes!
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12 days to go until our Plastic Free Diet. Commit to No New Plastic for 1 week. http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-New-Pla
Turning The Tides Plastic bag news have been rolling in all week long - here are the highlights:
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Turning The Tides Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, September 23 at 5 pm at the Juneau downtown library conference room.
Turning The Tides will be doing marine debris cleanup at Sunshine Cove, Juneau, Alaska for the International Coastal Cleanup Day this Saturday, September 19. For details, please see the post below.
Bob Sylvester
TTT will be picking up Sunshine CoveThis Saturday 9 to noon. Come when you can, ,Sunshine
Cove
is at about 35 and 3/4 mile. Out The Road. Past Eagle Beach by about 6
miles. It is past Yankee Cove too. If
you get to the 36 mile sign you have gone past it. The road is
somewhat high as you pass Sunshine cove but there will ...be a sign near
or on my car by the side of the road.
Mihael found a good map here:
http://www.seatrails.org/pdf/maps-trails
(yes sunshine is misspelled)
We will have bags dress for the weather. thanks so much, Bob
questions email me at hikeak@yahoo.comRead More
Cove
is at about 35 and 3/4 mile. Out The Road. Past Eagle Beach by about 6
miles. It is past Yankee Cove too. If
you get to the 36 mile sign you have gone past it. The road is
somewhat high as you pass Sunshine cove but there will ...be a sign near
or on my car by the side of the road.
Mihael found a good map here:
http://www.seatrails.org/pdf/maps-trails
(yes sunshine is misspelled)
We will have bags dress for the weather. thanks so much, Bob
questions email me at hikeak@yahoo.comRead More
Source: www.seatrails.org
Turning The Tides First International Plastic Bag-Free Day this Saturday, September 12th!
Source: networkedblogs.com
Turning The Tides Fairbanks, Alaska borough assembly passes five-cent tax on plastic bags to pay for recycling programs as they emerge.
Source: www.newsminer.com
Turning The Tides Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All - And Fast!
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
But hold the champagne. As plastic decomposes, it releases toxic chemicals that can harm ocean life—and possibly us—a new study says.
Turning The Tides A short film made by Turning The Tides members.
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You know how you always put the re-usable bag into your purse/car and then forget about it when you go shopping? Credits: Mo Hicks - writer Jeff Freeman - voice Justin Daily - composer & musician Sandra ...
Turning The Tides If you're in Sitka, Alaska: TTT is co-sponsoring a presentation by Ken Balcomb on High Intensity Navy Sonar in the Gulf of Alaska today, August 5 at 7:30 pm at the Centennial Hall.
Turning The Tides Palo Alto, Calif., and Edmonds, Wash., have joined a small but growing list of communities that will be enacting bans on plastic carryout bags. But all eyes in the next two weeks will be on Seattle, where the American Chemistry Council has spent nearly $1.4 million in an effort to convince voters to reject a 20-cent fee on single-use grocery bags.
Source: www.plasticsnews.com
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