[SustainableTompkins] garbage island on VBS.TV

[Thomas Shelley]

Dear Friends--The Internet TV channel, http://www.vbs.tv/, has a show on 
plastic pollution in the oceans.  The clip on the splash page is about 6 
minutes long and well worth the visit to the VBS.TV site.  Pretty 
depressing stuff.   It is now estimated that 80 percent comes from garbage 
washed into rivers, according to this show.  The solution:  We must change 
the way we live, including purchasing as little plastic as possible.  Tom

























Tom Shelley
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present 
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own 
needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as 
growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean 
"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux proverb