Here are my latest videos from Our World 2.0.
Plastic to Oil Fantastic!
Plastic to Oil Fantastic from UNUChannel on Vimeo.
The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest oil-to-plastic conversion machines out on the market today. It's founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their plastic trash. From solving our landfill and garbage disposal issues to reducing our oil dependancy on the Middle East, his machine may one day be in every household across Japan.
While holding up a bag of trash, he states, "It's a waste to throw away, isn't it? This is a treasure."
Read the article:
http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/2009/04/14/plastic-to-oil-fantastic/
The Case of the Diminishing Drift Ice
The Case of the Diminishing Drift Ice from UNUChannel on Vimeo.
The Sea of Okhotsk has long been the southernmost spot in the Northern Hemisphere where polar sea ice is found. After spreading southward out of the Arctic each winter and along the eastern edge of Sakhalin Island, the ice typically arrives in Hokkaido in mid to late January. The best time to see it is the latter half of February but it stays until late March or early April. However, over the past twenty years the drift ice has been slowly diminishing. Some say this is the result of global warming. The people of Abashiri have come together to take action.
To read more about this http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/2009/05/26/tourism-meltdown/
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