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We must recognize that everything we create as a society has a future that we cannot see. Every product we make lives on after our brief interaction with it. Nowhere is that more apparent than the plastic legacy we are leaving in our oceans.

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Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, has discovered that many cash register receipts contain levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA) hundreds of times higher than those found in

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After traveling 130 days and 8,000 miles, the Plastiki sailed in to Sydney earlier today, ending the trek to bring attention to the problem of plastics in our ocean.

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The Plastiki is nearing the end of it's voyage from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia after several months on the water. It's been an incredible trip, and Graham Hill was even able to tag along for a good chunk of the trek. But the Plastiki has had an important goal from the very beginning, and now, the crew is asking you for support to meet that goal.

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Once we've gotten our priorities straight regarding reducing the massive amount of oil we use in transportation--largely because we've built our communities into places where most people need to drive rather than walk,

A burning oil spill in the Niger Delta.

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Thanks largely to the interminable gloom of the BP Gulf oil spill, it feels like we haven't seen any good news on the green front for ages.

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Guest post by Philippe Cousteau

I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. "Progress!" I thought to myself with satisfaction.

Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is currently aboard the 60 foot, 12,500 plastic bottle ThePlastiki.com vessel crossing the Pacific, fresh from the Galapagos where he covered TED Ocean's Mission-Blue conference.

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Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the natural world.