24/04/09 21:07 Filed in:
Environment
| Sailing
It's
spring in New England! Buds are appearing on trees,
and tulips--a multitude of colors--are sprinkled
throughout the city of Boston. And if you listen
closely, you just might hear the high pitched whir of
a sander, the gentle slap of a paintbrush against the
side of a hull or the excited splash of a boat as it
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Tags: sailing, chemicals, pollution, environment
30/01/09 21:17 Filed in:
Environment
Snip
the plastic rings that hold together a six-pack of
soda--you could save the lives of turtles and sea
birds, my mom told me. But it wasn’t a panacea, and
it failed to address a much larger problem: Our
plastic waste, among other garbage, ends up in the
ocean and stomachs of marine life.
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Tags: pollution, garbage patch