Plastiki Twitter
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Design Engineering Ethics Environmental Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science Green Design and Sustainable Engineering Industrial Design Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Ocean Engineering |
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Community - Discussion Forum/Mailing List/Newsletter |
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Unknown |
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Organization:Plastiki |
| Description: | The adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild and a handpicked crew of leading scientists, adventurers and creatives set sail over 10,000 nautical miles across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney on a 60-foot catamaran made from post consumer plastic water and soda bottles. The mission: to rethink waste as resource and to bring attention to global warming and rising oceans in the pacific. |
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| Keywords: | Plastiki environmental activism catamaran PET water bottles PET water bottles |
| Is Component of: |
Plastiki - PEP Water Bottle Ship and Voyage |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data (c) Design a system, component, or process (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
| Use of Resource: |
Interesting case study of environmental activism or reuse. |
| Difficulty: |
Very easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Medium |
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| Publication Date: | July 2010 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://twitter.com/plastiki |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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