{"id":95,"date":"2009-04-07T03:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T03:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zurkow.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/07\/capt-charles-moore-on-the-seas-of-plastic-video-on-tedcom\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T22:03:57","slug":"capt-charles-moore-on-the-seas-of-plastic-video-on-tedcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/capt-charles-moore-on-the-seas-of-plastic-video-on-tedcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic | Video on TED.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Moore is founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.algalita.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Algalita Marine Research Foundation<\/a>, one of the first to trawl the Garbage Patch. He  captains the foundation&#8217;s research vessel, the <em>Alguita<\/em>, documenting the largest &#8220;landfills&#8221; of plastic waste that  litter the oceans.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A yachting competition across the Pacific led veteran seafarer Charles Moore to discover what some have since deemed the world&#8217;s largest &#8220;landfill&#8221; &#8212; actually a huge <strong>water-bound swath of floating plastic garbage the size of two Texases<\/strong>. Trapped in an enormous slow whirlpool called the Pacific Gyre, a mostly stagnant, plankton-rich seascape spun of massive competing air currents, this Great Pacific Garbage Patch in some places outweighs even the surface waters&#8217; biomass six-to-one.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/CharlesMoore_2009U-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/CharlesMoore-2009U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=470\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Moore is founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, one of the first to trawl the Garbage Patch. He captains the foundation&#8217;s research vessel, the Alguita, documenting the largest &#8220;landfills&#8221; of plastic waste that litter the oceans. &#8220;A yachting competition across the Pacific led veteran seafarer Charles Moore to discover what some have since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/capt-charles-moore-on-the-seas-of-plastic-video-on-tedcom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic | Video on TED.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[68,70],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}