Eco Shout Outs

Doug Tompkins and Patagonia


After losing someone she loved, artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood with chalkboard paint and stenciled the sentence, "Before I die I want to _____." Within a day of the wall's completion, it was covered in colorful chalk dreams as neighbors stopped and reflected on their lives. Since then, more than four hundred Before I Die walls have been created by people all over the world.

Candy Chang is an artist who believes in the power of our public spaces to help us make sense of our communities and ourselves.

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Doug Tompkins and Patagonia

You 'll find the whole movie on Hulu. This documentary shows how Doug Tompkins became who he was and the challenges he faced with buying, conserving, protecting, and re-wilding, land in South America. It was not easy. As the film shows us though so worth it.

Ocean Cleanup

 1 Person Made a Difference: This is worth watching.  The nonprofit global cleaning crew called The Ocean Cleanup, led by founder and CEO Boyan Slat, announced recently that it had reached viability of its ocean plastic-collecting System 002 technology and...

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