Adventure Ecology and PLASTIKI

Recently visited a site I hadn't visited in a while: the ADVENTURE ECOLOGY site.
This seems to have had a bit of a revamp, and now has a very smooth look.

One additional resource is the PLASTIKI site.Map by Emily Cooper

The name is a nod to KON TIKI, which was a raft made by Thor Heyerdahl and sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 1947.

The modern day equivalent is PLASTIKI: a raft made out of plastic bottles. This will set sail from San Francisco in April 2009.

Here is a description from the website:

In April 2009, David de Rothschild and a crew of experts, scientists and creatives will sail 12,000 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat made out of plastic bottles and recycled waste products. This epic voyage is named The Plastiki taking inspiration from Thor Heyerdal's 1947 expedition The Kontiki.
Through this audacious and bold adventure The Plastiki aims to draw attention to the rethinking of our everyday human fingerprints on the natural world and in turn capturing the world's imagination by telling a story; that of the pioneering and sustainable design process that created and built The Plastiki, to the oceans and the many challenges it and its inhabitants face. This extraordinary ocean voyage will see The Plastiki sail through a number of fragile and ecologically challenged regions that that include the world’s largest waste dump through to The Line Islands and Tuvalu. It is our aim to captivate, inspire and activate tomorrow's environmental thinkers and doers to take positive action for our Planet and to be smart with waste, ultimately we hope to inspire people to rethink waste as a valuable resource. One person's waste could be another person's treasure.

This should be one to follow with a class.
Sign up for updates on the voyage.

Why not have a competition to make your own rafts out of plastic bottles ?

Could also use it as a basis to explore ocean currents.

Follow the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC blog too.


Been in touch with the press office of the expedition, so there is lots more to come on this expedition as preparations end, and the voyage starts...

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