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Oceans #5: Plastic in China: Waking the Dragon
Martin Bourque was suspicious about where the plastic from his recycling facility in California was going. He put a tracking device into a plastic bale and tracked it all the way across the world to a rural recycling facility in China.
Oceans #4: Where Our Plastic Goes: GPS Tracking on a Global Scrap Market
Millions of tonnes of plastic enter our ocean every year. If we’re going to stop this flood, we need to know where the leak is. Is the in countries where huge amounts of plastic enters the sea? Would that explain how a plastic wrapper dropped in a recy...
Oceans #3: Can We Really Clean Up Ocean Plastic? (Mythbusting)
One main reason cleaning up the ocean is not going to work: so many of us underestimate the wrath of the sea. The many technical challenges are so much bigger than we realise, and while we all desperately wish the magic-bullet solutions will work…the c...
Oceans #2: The Man Who Started Talking About Plastic Pollution
The story of ocean plastic, at least the one we talk about now, began 20 years ago. Before then, nobody was making noise about how our oceans were filling up with with this everlasting nuisance. One man changed this when he showed the world what damage...
BONUS: 10 Minute Body Reboot
10 minute mind-body exercise for you to practice anytime you need. By yoga teacher and massage therapist Julia Zatta in Mixtape 10: An Alternative to Exercise Apps, produced by Green Exchange.
Mixtape #10: An Alternative to Exercise Apps
Life is tough, especially on our bodies. Many of us spend way too much time sitting in traffic, or hunched over our desks, staring at screens…and we know we need to do better, but sometimes it’s hard to add mind-body awareness to our hectic daily lives...
Earth Calling #8: Extinction
Something is wrong. We haven’t heard from Planet Earth in a while…does she still listen to our stories? We try to find out what’s going on, and to share one last story… Produced by Camille Duran & Eleen Murphy Published by Eleen Murphy Music Credits: L...
Quickfire #4: Our New Logohunt Game On Instagram
Next time you’re bored on your lunch break, try our new game on Instagram. We hide our logo in the a set of images we post on our profile @greenxeurope.In each new set of images, there is one logo to find. If you find it,
Oceans #1: Plastic Pollution, Crime & Nutrition – Plotting The Course
We live on a blue planet, surrounded by oceans. But how much do we really know about what goes on in our oceans? Where does all the plastic come from, and how do we stop it from getting in there? What does piracy, money laundering,
Mixtape #9: Pirates & the Wind of Change (Chapter 2)
Pirates never went away. From the troubling news stories about pirates attacking ships in Somalia, to dangerous digital hacktivists wreaking havoc online, there is plenty to discover – and even more to question. So,