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Posts from December 2008

Sailing the seas of plastic

Map of David de Rothschild’s planned Pacific trip by Emily Cooper for National Geographic Adventure.
When I wrote some practical advice for traveling to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Gyre, I thought it was the most far fetched of the disaster destinations I explored. It was certainly the most far flung, as [...]


Chicken tourism

Breeder hens on Morgan Farm in Oklahoma by Tim Morgan
Alex at Pruned proposes a tour of industrial-scale chicken farms in Maryland. According to the New York Times article that inspired him, the state produces 570 million of the birds a year. Seems their droppings wash out into the Chesapeake Bay, which is becoming increasingly polluted [...]


Posted
3 December 2008 @ 12am

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Make

Unidentified driving artwork

I landed an article on this giant UFO in the pages of MAKE magazine. Gail Simpson and Aristotle Georgiades of Actual Size Artworks built it in Wisconsin with wood from an old dairy barn they transformed into their house. Then they drove all 500 pounds of it to Philadelphia and put it in a tree. [...]