Team Marine :: Rethinking Sustainability!

Selected Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops Attended and/or Hosted

COSEE-West Lecture Series: Exploring Our Environment with Jean-Michel Cousteau. Santa Monica Main Library, Santa Monica, California.
April 13, 2008

Generation Earth Water Pollution Prevention Workshop. Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, California. Jan 26, 2008

Million Trees Environmental Youth Conference, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. Jan 26, 2008.

COSEE-West Lecture Series, Dr. Mark Gold presents: Public Health Issues in Coastal Waters. Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, Santa Monica,
California. Nov 28, 2007.

Los Angeles Community College District's 6th Annual Sustainability Conference to Propose Practical Solutions to Deter Global Climate Warming. Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Nov 7, 2007.

Selected Multimedia Appearances

http://current.com/items/89141407_plastic_is_murder
Team marine featured in a Current TV podcast, “Plastic is Murder” (an Al Gore network production by Crystal Fambrini) about how we helped ban single-use plastic bags in Santa Monica. Jul 27, 2008.

http://www.knbc.com/station/16418083/detail.html link removed by site
Team Marine students on Channel 4 News participating in construction of “Junk” with Algalita Marine Research Foundation. May 30, 2008.

http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArchiveArticle.asp?eid=7461
Front page article in Santa Monica Mirror, “Team Marine Saves Earth,” about successes of Team Marine’s environmental activism. Mar 20-26, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNMTTRKSV4&feature=user
Team Marine featured in this Whole Foods production, “Santa Monica Teens Saving the Environment” to promote the Whole Earth Generation Environmental Contest. Viewed 18,816 times as of Mar 2009. Posted Mar 2008.

http://www.smdp.com/site/archives/031308.pdf
Team Marine’s aerial artwork showing “RETHINK” written in the sand using 111 lbs. of plastic bags - featured in Santa Monica Daily Press pg. 14.
Mar 13, 2008.

http://www.usc.edu/org/cosee-west/quikscience/winners_2008.html
QuikSCience Challenge website congratulating Team Marine for winning ocean stewardship competition judged on community service, multimedia, lesson plan, research proposal, and portfolio. Mar 6, 2008.

http://www.smdp.com/site/archives/022908.pdf
Team Marine quoted in Santa Monica Daily Press article, “Plastic Bag Ban on the Front Burner,” regarding our rallies and testimonies against plastic bags at City Hall. Feb 29, 2008.

http://smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArchiveArticle.asp?eid=7321
Team Marine featured in Santa Monica Mirror article, “Time to Bag the Bag” for helping push the ban on single-use plastic bags. Feb 28-Mar 5 2008.

http://cbs2.com/video/?id=60782@kcbs.dayport.com
Team Marine on Channel 2 news promoting re-useable bags at Santa Monica City Hall – “‘Paper or Paper’ May be the Question Soon”. Feb 27, 2008.

http://smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArchiveArticle.asp?eid=7275
Santa Monica Mirror article, “Bags Get Reprieve – Trees Don’t,” showing picture of a Samohi peer dressed as “The Bag Monster” testifying at City Hall about the negative impacts of plastics in the marine environment. Feb 21-27, 2008.

http://www.smdp.com/article/articles/4754/1/Powering-the-bag-fight/Page1.html
Santa Monica Daily Press article, “Powering the bag fight: Samohi students come to the forefront of ban,” with photos and quotes of Team Marine from our plastic bag ban marches and testimonies before Santa Monica City Council. Feb 21, 2008.

http://cbs2.com/video/?id=60160@kcbs.dayport.com
Team Marine on Channel 2 news leading student march in Santa Monica to encourage council members to ban plastic bags – “Santa Monica City Council Votes on Plastic Bag Ban”. Feb 20, 2008.

http://santamonica.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=854
Video of Santa Monica City Hall council meeting where several Team Marine members testified against single-use plastic bags – go to streaming video starting from 1:42:40. Feb 19, 2008.

http://www.teammarine.org
A website designed by my Team Marine students to encourage and educate community members about sustainable living practices and products. Launched Feb 2008, Revamped by Team Marine 08-09 Jan-Mar 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsDdFOaSd3c
Team Marine’s environmental video, “Danny Going Green,” promoting a switch from single-use plastic bags to re-useable ones and other sustainable living practices. It was featured at the 2008 International Youth Coastal Conference in Townsville, Australia. Viewed 2,379 times as of March 2009.
Posted Jan 2008.