May 9, 2013
by Brant Olson
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Brant Olson, Campaign Manager, San Francisco
Last week, California’s State Assembly took its first steps toward adopting a groundbreaking new law to help keep plastic trash out of our oceans by creating a marine plastic pollution… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 21, 2013
by Leila Monroe
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Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco
Experience and scientific study both reveal that plastic now pollutes the farthest reaches of the world’s oceans. From the deep seabed of the Arctic, to once-pristi… Continue reading
June 19, 2012
by Leila Monroe
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Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco
At the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, action happens on two tracks. On the “inside track”, representatives of governments meet over the cour… Continue reading
May 29, 2012
by Leila Monroe
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Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco
The world’s environmental problems can seem overwhelming, but I often find hope and inspiration in local victories. Local victories, when aggregated, can lead to ma… Continue reading
June 16, 2011
by Jacob Scherr
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Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC We are just a year away from the next Earth Summit scheduled for June 4-6, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, and interest in the gathering – officially labeled the UN Conference on Sustaina… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 30, 2011
by Leila Monroe
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Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco I’ve just returned from a week in paradise where I was immersed in the problem of plastic trash in the ocean. The 5th International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) in Honolulu bro… Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 10, 2010
by Reduce
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In the ongoing search for how to produce Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) with a smaller environmental footprint, a new competitor has entered the field, and it does a body good. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have developed a new form of foam plastic packaging made using a protein from cow milk, according to Discovery News. [...] Continue reading
Share on FacebookSeptember 9, 2010
by Leila Monroe
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This has been a great week in San Francisco for ocean lovers of all kinds. Hosting California and the World Ocean 2010, our state agencies gathered scientists, educators, advocates, and industry from around the country and world to discuss the mo… Continue reading
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