Just received this from Rosemary Rohde.
Hi Everyone,
Welcome back! Here is the start of our new year of events and programming for you. Hope you can make it to our next events:
1. Join us for the Net Impact Film Screening and Discussion of
” BAG IT”
This Thursday, January 13th 2011 in Noyes Hall, Room 153
Bldg #72 on the map: https://sites.google.com/site/caltechnetimpact/
Film BEGINS AT 7:00PM. Discussion will be held after the film.
The event is free and open to the community.
Snacks and drinks provided.
BAG IT is a ?lm that examines our society’s use and abuse of plastic. The ?lm focuses on plastic as it relates to our society’s throwaway mentality, our culture of convenience, our over consumption of unnecessary, disposable products and packaging—things that we use one time and then, without another thought, throw them away. Where is AWAY?? Away is over ?owing land?lls, clogged rivers, islands of trash in our oceans, and even our very own toxic bodies. Jeb travels the globe on a fact-?nding mission—not realizing that after his simple resolution, plastic will never look the same again!
Check out the trailer: https://bagitmovie.com/trailer.html
Feel free to bring friends 🙂
Snacks and drinks provided.
Heard of the North Pacific garbage patch ? What about Capt. Charles Moore?
Come learn from the people who discovered it, what effects plastics have on the marine life. Find out what you can do to reduce your plastic footprint!
Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF) is a Long Beach, California-based non-profit marine research and education organization. Charles Moore founded AMRF in 1994 to focus on the “coastal ocean”, specifically on the restoration of disappearing giant kelp forests and the improvement of water quality through the preservation and re-construction of wetlands along the California coast.
In 1997, his focus dramatically changed. While returning to California from Hawaii aboard his 50-foot catamaran, the Alguita, he chose to chart a course through the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. This area of the Pacific is a circulating rotation of ocean currents and is normally avoided by sailors due to its light winds. In the eastern portion of the Gyre he encountered enormous amounts of trash, mostly plastic, scattered across the area. Now commonly referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it is a vast plastic soup (from the surface down through the water column) containing everything from large abandoned fishing nets (ghost nets) to plastic bottles, bottle caps, toothbrushes, containers, boxes, to miniscule particles of plastic that have either been reduced from larger pieces by wave action or sunlight (photodegradation).
Since 1997, Captain Moore has made numerous research voyages to the Gyre aboard the ORV Alguita, resulting in a body of authoritative research publications and data and educational programs. During the most recent voyage in the summer of 2009, AMRF’s area of study extended to the International Date Line which revealed more of the same – plastic sludge in our trawl samples.
On January 20th, David A. Weeshoff will speak to us regarding AMRF research. David A. Weeshoff is President of the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society, and is on the Board of IBRRC. He was a South Coast Regional Stakeholder, representing birds, in the implementation of the California Marine Life Protection Act. He speaks frequently on environmental issues relating to the marine environment to groups of all ages.
More about the founder of Algalita, Capt. Charles Moore, can be found here: https://www.algalita.org/about-us/bios/charles.html
Event is sponsored by Tom Mannion, CIT Sustainability office, and the GSC.
Join us! Spread the word.
3. GARDENING on SUNDAYS continues!
Want to grow local food? Join us at our garden site in Altadena. Email if you are interested or need a ride! Food that is grown in the garden is distributed among the volunteers. Also, save your food waste and bring it Sunday to dump onto the compost pile. Get involved 🙂
See you Thursday,
Net Impact
