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plastic & water pollution 18 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
To fully see the reality of plastic pollution in our oceans, it may help to recap how it all begins. Plastic is made from crude oil using a procedure that affects the carbon in the oil, creating long ...
a plastic ocean 16 May 2013 | 10:11 pm
Plastic is a seemingly innocuous substance that has woven it’s way across the globe and into every phase of our lives. From birth onward, we depend on plastic as a vehicle or component for a variety o...
Bermuda touchdown and the Sargasso Sea 15 Apr 2013 | 06:17 pm
The Bermuda Triangle holds a different definition in each of our minds. It’s a vortex of wild weather, a mysterious energy field, or simply a remote place to dramatize the sinking of ships from centur...
plastic pollution – phase III kickstarter 7 Mar 2013 | 04:21 am
As we continue to unfold the story of the Penobscot Watershed in Maine and discover more about the importance of free-flowing rivers, we are happy to share some new developments in the next phase of 7...
Thule Hunter 30 Jan 2013 | 03:14 am
We want to begin today by thanking all of our followers who have been with us from the beginning. It is with your encouragement, faith, and continued interest in our project that keeps us heading sout...
Through the lens 27 Nov 2012 | 03:00 pm
Any great image requires a delicate combination of many things – light, timing, subject matter, composition, equipment, and skill. As a photographer and writer, our tools and talents dictate the resul...
earth’s natural resources 2 Nov 2012 | 03:00 pm
* Measuring 73 feet high and spanning the 695 foot wide gorge, the Ripogenous Dam was built in 1920 and initially constructed to control flow in the river for the movement of pulp. In the 1950‘s, a tu...
nature: the greatest escape 6 Sep 2012 | 09:46 pm
*Chimney Pond, Baxter State Park, Maine *Baxter Peak, Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine The hike along the trail has your feet dancing around twisted roots grown up from beneath the dirt. Large s...
the penobscot river, maine 17 Jul 2012 | 07:00 pm
“Not very many people take their families camping anymore,” she sighed. “People just don’t spend as much time out in nature and on the rivers as they used to.” Susan Adams is the property manager at B...
our story 11 Jul 2012 | 06:00 pm
Since announcing our project and boarding a plane bound for the northern most inhabited place on the planet, people ask us, how, why, and who are you two that you guys can do this? Sometimes I manage ...
