Saturday 1 October 2011

Statistical art with a meaningful message - Chris Jordan

Wow, Chris Jordan really puts things into perspective with his series called Running the Numbers that shows just how destructive our societal norms have become.


Chris Jordan is also featured in the documentary film the Clean Bin Project  talking about this phenomenon that is happening on Midway Island. Chris says: "On one of the remotest places on earth in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, five tonnes of plastic is brought to the island every year in the stomachs of Albatross."

Plastics are finding their way from our rivers and streams into the Pacific Ocean, and then being concentrated on what is known as the The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There is a patch in every ocean in fact.

I live near a river and sometimes when I cross the bridge I see below me litter that sits on the river bank. If the litter isn't picked up it has a good chance of ending up in the Pacific Ocean.  

Want to act? Do you live in Kamloops?  Join me on October 9th at 10 am outside the Henry Grube Centre  for a shoreline cleanup under along the Thompson and North Thompson River.

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