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It’s Valentine’s Day – Time to Love the Ocean

Help out the environment by joining a local sailing school to pick up balloons from the ocean this Valentine’s Day

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It’s Valentine’s Day – Time to Love the Ocean

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First Flush

After learning about Soraya Simi and her work, I checked out her short film First Flush. In just one minute we follow the journey of raindrops hitting the Los Angeles pavement, to the accumulating floodwaters traveling across roadways and down drains, all leading down to the LA River. The drainage carries with it more than just rain: various plastic trash

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First Flush

After learning about Soraya Simi and her work, I checked out her short film First Flush. In just one minute we follow the journey of raindrops hitting the Los Angeles pavement, to the accumulating floodwaters traveling across roadways and down drains, all leading down to the LA River. The drainage carries with it more than just rain: various plastic trash Read More >

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Young Sailors: Are You an “Ocean Hero”?

Young sailors, your sailing education is not just about learning to read charts and pull lines. Your generation faces a whole new set of challenges on par with the great explorers of ancient times. Unfathomably widespread plastic, fisheries collapse, water pollution… the list of problems facing the ocean continues to grow. The mistakes of the past are not your fault,

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Young Sailors: Are You an “Ocean Hero”?

Young sailors, your sailing education is not just about learning to read charts and pull lines. Your generation faces a whole new set of challenges on par with the great explorers of ancient times. Unfathomably widespread plastic, fisheries collapse, water pollution… the list of problems facing the ocean continues to grow. The mistakes of the past are not your fault, Read More >

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Join ASA in the Landfill Challenge!

You’ve been challenged! Sailors are motivated to contribute less to the ocean’s plastic problem, but when plastic is incorporated into almost everything we do, where do we begin? The average American generates over 4 pounds of trash every day, and when we send it to landfill, it becomes out of sight, out of mind. Whether we live on the coast

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Join ASA in the Landfill Challenge!

You’ve been challenged! Sailors are motivated to contribute less to the ocean’s plastic problem, but when plastic is incorporated into almost everything we do, where do we begin? The average American generates over 4 pounds of trash every day, and when we send it to landfill, it becomes out of sight, out of mind. Whether we live on the coast Read More >

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Ocean Hope: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup Has Begun!

The Ocean Cleanup project, headed by 24-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, has spent the last 5 years designing a U-shaped floating trawl to scour the sea for floating bits of plastic. The 600-meter long floater and attached skirt are designed to work passively with natural elements like currents and wind to follow the plastic’s path and trap it. The skirt

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Ocean Hope: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup Has Begun!

The Ocean Cleanup project, headed by 24-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, has spent the last 5 years designing a U-shaped floating trawl to scour the sea for floating bits of plastic. The 600-meter long floater and attached skirt are designed to work passively with natural elements like currents and wind to follow the plastic’s path and trap it. The skirt Read More >

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Plastic Pollution Purge: WECT with Kevin Hennessey from Cape Fear Sailing Academy

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from WECT with Kevin Hennessey from Cape Fear Sailing Academy.

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Plastic Pollution Purge: WECT with Kevin Hennessey from Cape Fear Sailing Academy

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from WECT with Kevin Hennessey from Cape Fear Sailing Academy. Read More >

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Plastic Pollution Purge: CBS 58 (WDJT) with Brian Earl from Sea Safari Sailing School

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from CBS 58 and Brian Earl from Sea Safari Sailing School.

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Plastic Pollution Purge: CBS 58 (WDJT) with Brian Earl from Sea Safari Sailing School

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from CBS 58 and Brian Earl from Sea Safari Sailing School. Read More >

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Plastic Pollution Purge: FOX 11 and Elbert “Ash” Ashbaugh from the American Sailing Association in Los Angeles, California

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from FOX 11 and Elbert “Ash” Ashbaugh from the American Sailing Association in Los Angeles, California

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Plastic Pollution Purge: FOX 11 and Elbert “Ash” Ashbaugh from the American Sailing Association in Los Angeles, California

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from FOX 11 and Elbert “Ash” Ashbaugh from the American Sailing Association in Los Angeles, California Read More >

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Plastic Pollution Purge: NBC 5 with Bob Weber from Odyssey Sailing School in St. Louis, Missouri.

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from CBS 5 with Leigh Hunt from Modern Sailing School in San Francisco, California

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Plastic Pollution Purge: NBC 5 with Bob Weber from Odyssey Sailing School in St. Louis, Missouri.

To help clean up our waterways, the American Sailing Association announces “Operation Plastic Pollution Purge”. Learn more from CBS 5 with Leigh Hunt from Modern Sailing School in San Francisco, California Read More >

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