Hello All, Hear Capt. Charles Moore, scientist and activist, discuss his book "Plastic Ocean" (with a PowerPoint presentation), which describes the alarming presence of plastics in our oceans and the damage they cause to our marine ecosystems, ocean environments and ultimately all life on Earth. This is a FREE event, sponsored by the Sierra Club and the University of Puget Sound's Sound Policy Institute, and open to all interested persons. Signed copies of "Plastic Ocean" will also be available for purchase (but no purchases are required). Please mark your calendars and forward this email to friends and interested persons/organizations! Also, feel free to post it on social media and listserv sites. Come January 23, 2012, 5:30 PM at the University of Puget Sound, Wheelock Student Center - Murray Boardroom, Tacoma, WA (from N. Alder St., go one block west on N. 15th St.). [cid:image001.jpg@01CCCC6F.CEB8DE80]<http://cascade.sierraclub.org/> Captain Charles Moore Scientist and Activist Discusses "The Great Infection of the Sea" detailed in his acclaimed new book Plastic Ocean<http://www.plasticoceanthebook.com/> ________________________________ [cid:image002.png@01CCCC6F.CEB8DE80]<http://www.algalita.org/> Date: January 23, 2012 Time: 5:30 PM Location: University of Puget Sound Wheelock Student Center<http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/visiting-puget-sound/directions/>Murray Boardroom Tacoma, Wa Contact: Dorothy Walker<mailto:dorothyw@centurylink.net> Bliss Moore<mailto:blissmoore2004@yahoo.com> ________________________________ A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis. In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a "plastic soup." He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet - a spiral nebula where plastic outweighed zooplankton, the ocean's food base, by a factor of six to one. In this presentation Moore will discuss these observations, what they mean to our planet, and his bookPlastic Ocean<http://www.plasticoceanthebook.com/>. A call to action as urgent as Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring, Moore's sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, concerned parents, and seafaring enthusiasts concerned about the deadly impact and implications of this man-made blight. ________________________________ This event is sponsored by the Sierra Club Tatoosh Group<http://washington.sierraclub.org/tatoosh/> with the University of Puget Sound's Sound Policy Institute<http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/sound-policy-institute/>. ________________________________ Captain Moore is also speaking in Bellingham<http://www.KidsEyesOnPugetSound.info/Moore_html/Bellingham.html>, Olympia<http://www.KidsEyesOnPugetSound.info/Moore_html/Olympia.html>, Port Angeles<http://www.KidsEyesOnPugetSound.info/Moore_html/PortAngeles.html> and Seattle<http://www.KidsEyesOnPugetSound.info/Moore_html/Seattle.html>. ________________________________