The plastiki is a 60foot 18 m catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled pet plastic and waste products. Sailing across the ocean on a ship made of plastic. He also sailed to australia in a boat made from recycled plastic bottles. Plastiki book captures boats epic ocean journey photos.
When the journey is over, hell publish a book about. We wrote about the trip from san fran to sydney in a boat made from thousands of plastic bottles. Alarmed by the devastating impact of plastic pollution in the ocean, the ecoadventurer built the plastiki. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. In 2007 david published a book titled the live earth global warming survival handbook. David on plastiki tracking the plastikis epic ocean. The craft was built using cradle to cradle design philosophies and features many renewable energy systems, including. Dune director denis villeneuve reveals scifi epic is most difficult thing hes done and says book s.
He has traveled across antarctica, set a speed record crossing the greenland ice cap, and reached the north pole with hungry polar bears following him. Dune director denis villeneuve reveals scifi epic is most difficult thing hes done and says books. The plastiki is a oneofakind 60foot catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and using many renewable energy systems. His infectious spirit and explorers perspective are beautifully captured in the text. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. So he built a boat from plastic bottles to sail the pacific in search of flotsam and wisdom.
In the waters off fiji tracking the plastikis epic ocean. Spontaneously envisioned to save our oceans from plastic pollution created by a now global society of waste, the. Mar 16, 2011 plastiki across the pacific on plastic. Plastiki book hennepin county library bibliocommons. The voyage of the plastiki environment the guardian. Apr 20, 2011 april 21, 2011 check out an excerpt of plastiki. Alarmed by the devastating impact of plastic pollution in the ocean, the ecoadventurer built the plastiki, a boat made from 12,000 plastic bottles.
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