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“The Parting of the Plastic Sea” an installation made from 168,000 used plastic straws
It’s just one straw, said 8 billion people. Sounds like a cliche little quote – but these little things really do add up. Straws are virtually impossible to recycle in most places around the world because of how light and small they are. They’re also one of the easiest products to turn down at a […]
January 28, 2019
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My Friend And I Built The World’s Tallest Closet
My friend Laura is a social impact designer who has an unconventional passion for clothing. She realized long ago that we buy far more clothes than we need, simply because we can. Since then, she’s been looking to find different ways to get people to fall in love with their clothing. Telling people to “not buy more […]
December 17, 2018
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Every 60 Seconds, This Much Plastic Enters The Ocean.
Why throw plastics into the ocean? I can’t speak for others but in our case, we decided to throw an entire truckload of plastic into the ocean after we learned about this shocking statistic: ” Every 60 seconds, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean. “ Although we were able to remove […]
September 17, 2018
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Where are your clothes born?
10 years ago, this was a clothing factory that employed almost 5000 workers Once called the Tak Fat garment factory – it is now being renovated and converted into a creative coworking space in Cambodia. When it went bankrupt in 2009, thousands and thousands of pounds of brand new clothes were abandoned. I’m always hunting for […]
April 23, 2018
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4100lbs of E-Waste resurrected. Trillions to go.
Every single day, 142,000 computers are thrown away in the United States At least, that was the case in 2010. Electronic waste is the fastest growing municipal waste stream in the world. Today, that number is far higher and the only way to alleviate the situation is getting people to talk more about it. Unfortunately, e-waste […]
March 5, 2018
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Did you know your laundry is toxic? These laundry monsters represent reality
We have a big problem. Our tap water is being contaminated every single day. The laundry that we do every single day is the cause! 94% of American tap water contains invisible plastic fibers. Tiny plastic fibers in our clothing – polyester, nylon, spandex to name a few – escape every time we do our […]
November 13, 2017
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Nike challenged me to walk on air so I jumped off a skyscraper
As a child, I always wondered what it would feel like to run on air. Martial art epics such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had me dreaming of what life would be like if I could just defy gravity. As an adult, I began to realize that the laws of physics didn’t care much for […]
October 3, 2017
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Capturing the invisible problem of first world child hunger
Last year, I stood on a stage offering to help anyone make a difference in the world. I was approached with a question: Can you recognize Hunger? I thought I could, until I had a conversation with the folks from the Second Harvest Food Bank. They told me that in the heart of Silicon Valley which houses dozens of […]
June 5, 2017
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Paralyzed mom hangs off cliff for Mother’s Day
I never thought I’d find myself dangling off the edge of a cliff, in pouring rain, while sitting on a wheelchair. Blue Mountain Adventure Company, our safety riggers wanted to test the rig out on someone that was able bodied first. That someone, was me. It all started when we wanted to offer a complete stranger […]
May 8, 2017
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These Kids Are Growing One Billion Oysters!
These kids are only 16 years old They are students of the New York Harbor School and part of the Billion Oyster project: an initiative designed to restore the underwater ecosystem of the New York Harbor by growing a few oysters. And by a few, I mean one billion. Their goal: To grow One Billion Oysters I first […]
April 24, 2017
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Mad Max meets Trump’s America
When we first planned this photoshoot almost nine months back, it was never meant to be political. However, with President Trump’s recent commitment to bring back coal, my fantastical concept started to feel a lot more real. Earlier in the year, I had stumbled across a website that was bottling oxygen from the rocky mountains and […]
January 30, 2017
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10000 plastic bottles, one mermaid and a single wish
If the average American uses 167 plastic bottles a year, in 60 years they will have used 10,000 plastic bottles. Those same single use bottles will be around for your children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children. That’s a lot of bottles to be […]
December 12, 2016
