12/26/2023 0 Comments Nextnow collaboratory![]() ![]() They are still short of trip expense funds by a few thousand dollars. It costs a lot to get there, and these guys are volunteering their time to do this very important project. Spread the word about their project and website through your blog or by emailing friends.If the images of the albatross touched you, and made you take a second look at your everyday waste, please consider supporting these guys. I have met both Jan and Chris personally, and I know that they are humbly dedicated to preventing plastic pollution and to getting the story of Midway out there. The viewer will enter a paradoxical world of horror and beauty, destruction and renewal, and emerge with their worldview shifted.” ![]() Our story will be framed in gorgeous state-of-the-art high-resolution digital cinematography, in one of the world’s most beautiful island landscapes. Through our journey we hope to rediscover-in the grandeur of the magnificent albatross and it’s far-reaching travels, and in the unbroken primal cycle of mating, brooding, nurturing and fledging despite the albatross colony’s encounters with plastic-that by turning toward flowing life in all its beauty and resilience, we find a path toward acceptance and inspiration. In their own words, their film “will be a powerful visual journey into the heart of Midway’s astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. In addition to Chris Jordan’s ongoing photographic work on the island, the team is collaborating in the creation of a documentary film about their experience, that that they “hope will bring a message of beauty and renewal to an audience of millions of people around the world”. They are about to embark on another leg of their project and plan to be on Midway Atoll when hundreds of thousands of fluffy baby albatrosses are nesting with their parents. He, Chris Jordan, and a team of passionate people have been documenting the lifecycle of the albatross on Midway as part of Journey to Midway. The gorgeous footage of the albatross in our film was shot by Jan Vozenilek. The Collaboratory is currently working with the Plastic Pollution Coalition on a project to raise awareness about Trash Island, the floating piles of waste in the Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of Texas.If you’ve seen our movie, you’ll know that there are hundreds of thousands of baby albatross dying on Midway Island each year filled up with our plastic plastic that is floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the NextNow Collaboratory has helped develop numerous other projects and conferences. Buckminister Fuller, and received support from Vice President Al Gore. ![]() In June of 2007, the Collaboratory helped produce the Fifth Annual International Symposium for Digital Earth, a five-day conference focused on making the world of information gathered about our planet accessible to everyone living on our planet. The Collaboratory launched in September of 2006 to tap into advances in data visualization and other technologies to study the interdependencies between the world’s numerous environmental crises and to build a network of concerned individuals working together to solve these problems. The problems facing our planet can be too daunting to solve on our own, but the NextNow Collaboratory recognizes that by bringing people together to work on these problems we can increase our chances for success. ![]()
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