April 2010
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WatchUnderwater filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to share his awe and excitement — and his fears — about the blue heart of our planet.
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DumpsterVoid
Photography by Mariette Papic
Remembering that it takes 2,900 litres of water to produce one pair of jeans this project should come as a glass of fresh water:
[Everything in the dumpster void collection] is made from many same shape pre-cut fabric pieces discarded by industrial sewing factories. The pre-cuts are the negative space of designs, left-over after cutting. The challenge...
Enric Sala: Iguana watching from Mission Blue
Photo of Enric Sala on board the National Geographic Endeavour by TED/James Duncan Davidson
Another morning walk on land to watch iguanas, frigatebirds, and sea lions. Female sea lions were milking their babies in the middle of our path, ignoring us completely. Needless to say, we walked around the path to not disturb, after the mandatory “how cute/how sweet” statements. Back on board, we were...
Enric Sala From Mission Blue
Photo by G. Maxwell - Flightless Galapagos cormorant captures octopus in front of Mission Blue team!
Where on Earth one can see a flightless cormorant capturing an octopus, and two orcas killing a sea turtle? Where dopes one have to look attentively to the ground for fear of stepping on marine iguanas as black ad the lava rock? Where do baby sea lions bask in the sun oblivious to our presence?...
Enric Sala - TED at Sea - Day One
The sun is shyly rising between dark gray clouds behind the island of Baltra, and the sea is as calm as it gets. This is the Galapagos, the place where Charles Darwin conducted key observations that later shaped his theory of natural selection. The Galapagos changed our understanding of the world. But now we are changing the Galapagos - by illegal fishing, human population growth, and invasive...