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Dissecting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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11/24/09

  • The End of the Beginning

    David Cohn here from Spot.Us with a blog post to wrap up the garbage patch coverage.

    To start I want to give a sincere thanks one more time to Lindsey Hoshaw. I've said this before - she is the real hero of this project.

    As such, I'd like to highlight Lindsey Hoshaw's most recent personal blog posts:

    As you know, we reached our goal of funding Lindsey's trip to the garbage patch which she covered in a blog and was published in a NY Times story. Lindsey is also talking to KQED and GlobalPost to produce original material not featured on the blog or in the NYT piece.

    For future blog posts from Lindsey check out her personal/professional blog. If her talks with other news organizations covering the garbage patch are succesful I'm sure she will update you all there. This is the last garbage patch post from Spot.Us but Lindsey is working on other innovative environmental stories that she hopes to debut on Spot.us next year.

    So stay tuned.....

    Posted by Spot. Us on 11/24/09
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