Featured | Legislation

SB 54/AB 1080 Passed Appropriations

ByCoordinator August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

SB 54/AB 1080 have passed the Senate/Assembly appropriations committee!!

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Education | Featured | Foundations

Pacific Gyre: An Albatross Sees It as a Buffet
Bychris June 18, 2025July 25, 2025

With six times more plastic than plankton, they think it smells like dinner. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has become a deadly illusion for seabirds whose survival depends on their ability to find food in the vast ocean. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre covers an area larger than Texas, swirling in a slow-motion whirlpool that…

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Featured | Research

Invasion of the biosphere by synthetic polymers: What our current knowledge may mean for our future
ByCoordinator May 1, 2019May 1, 2019

Author: Captain Charles J. Moore In 1974, a member of the Council of the British Plastics Federation and a fellow of the Plastics Institute, stated that “Plastics litter is a very small proportion of all litter and causes no harm to the environment except as an eyesore”(Derraik, 2002). It has taken less than fifty years…

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Education | Featured | Media | Video

Chris Jordan’s New Film: Albatross
ByEditor August 19, 2017June 17, 2025

The story of ALBATROSS unfolds through a deeply personal journey that began in 2008 when director Chris Jordan teamed up with photographer Manuel Maqueda to investigate ocean plastic pollution. Their first trip in 2009 to Midway Atoll revealed a haunting scene: countless dead albatross chicks whose stomachs were filled with trash. This brutal discovery shattered…

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CA AB 2779 aka 319 | Featured

AB 2779 passed the Natural Resources Committee – 7-3!
ByEditor April 10, 2018April 13, 2018

AB 2779 (Stone/Calderon) – Connect the Cap – formerly AB 319 aka Leash the Lid, passed the Assembly Natural Resources Committe 7-3. Our thanks to Chair Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, Author Assemblymember Mark Stone, Richard Bloom, Assemblymember Monique Limón, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, Assemblymember Ed Chau, and Assemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman! The bill now heads to the…

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Campaigns | Featured

Resolution to Embrace and Achieve Zero Waste
ByCoordinator April 22, 2021April 22, 2021

PDF Version WHEREAS, the first Earth Day was over 50 years ago. Recycling, its natural industrial child, was envisioned to complete the resource circle, save the wilderness, generate jobs, and build the back end of the Gross National Product (GNP) all at once; WHEREAS, the Earth calls us each and all to move swiftly towards…

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Featured | Legislation | Policies

Want to know how YOU can save the Albatross?
ByEditor April 14, 2017June 26, 2017

1) Call your California Legislator to let them know that you support AB 319 by Assembly Member Stone. The bill would require that plastic beverage container caps be attached to the bottle, or designed such that the beverage is consumed without removing the cap. This bill is up in its first Committee – Assembly Natural…

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