Dear Friends--From NPR, here is another recent article on plastics in the oceans:
Garbage Mass Is Growing in the Pacific http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89099470 For a really great overview article with lots of photos, charts and technical data see the following from the <http://www.algalita.org/index.html>Algalita Marine Research Foundation, one of the organizations undertaking research on the ocean pollution problem: http://www.algalita.org/pdf/plastic-in-the-environment.pdf The bottom line is purchase as little plastic as possible, reuse/recycle when possible and do everything you can to keeping plastic out of the environment. These are simple things that we can all do! Take care. Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
