“The ocean is downhill from everywhere -- the principal repository for vagrant plastic waste."
IN THE NEWS
January 21. Bibb lettuce, cherimoyas. guavas, limes , fresh dill, bok choi, mizunoa and more today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
January 19. EXCITING NEWS! Algalita and Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, announce the Grand Opening of their new Research and Learning Center! – Watch for details coming soon!
January 14. Cherimoya, kale, first guavas of the season, limes, lettuce, and the last of the bananas today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Bananas, cherimoyas, limes, lettuce, broccoli, mizuna mustard and more today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
December 17. Beautiful organic head lettuce, fresh dug turmeric, dinosaur kale, limes, romaine lettuce, mizuna, lambs quarters, taro potato and more today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm
December December 10. Hangin 5 and harvesting turmeric. Captain Charlie does it all. Fresh broccoli and dinosaur kale along with lemon grass, Mizuna and more today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
December 2. It was my honor and fun to be Grand Marshal of the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade 2023!!!
November 25. Broccoli ready, also Mizuna mustard salad greens, limes,tomatoes, chiles, Bok Choi, garlic chives and lettuce, but my focus has been getting Grand Marshall floats and banners ready for the Belmont Shore Xmas parade next Saturday. We will feature my local nonprofits I support; Algalita Marine Research and Education, Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, Long Beach Organic, The MAYE Center at The Growing Experience and Puvugna First People saving the Los Cerritos Wetlands. See you 6-9 PM Dec. 2nd. I'll be surfing a big wave for Xmas By the Sea.
November 12. First pick yams, Fuyu persimmons, dinosaur kale, limes, mizuna, beautiful crisp Sierra Nevada lettuce, allspice, lemon verbena, taro and more on a hot day at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
The warm Fall weather continues as we harvest more beans, chiles, green onions, limes, banana flower, mizuna (Japanese arugula), kale, Bok Choi, Basil, taro and lettuce at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
October 22. A Joshua tree wedding for dear colleagues yesterday and today back at the farm we have lemon bananas, limes, chiles, cherry tomatoes, Bok Choi, kale, green onions and basil. Of course there are offerings too numerous to list at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
October 15. A warm early Fall made for a bumper Chile crop, I also have limes, taro, kale, basil, lettuce, .mustard leaves, fresh stevia leaves and lemon grass today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm
October 8 Bok choi, green onions, kale, limes, lemon grass and lemon verbena, taro. Leaf lettuce and more today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
10/1. Kale, tomatoes, lettuce, limes, green onions, serrano and Guam peppers, lemon grass, curry leaf, and last of the pickling cucumbers today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
August 18. Super Microplastic Simposium at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada. So many young scientists pushing back against the Plastic Attack!
August 18. I was very pleased to present my talk to my colleagues at the Autonomous University of Baja California about microplastics. It was a pleasure to present on microplastics to my colleagues at UABC today.
August 18. Today the Mexican Symposium on Plastic Pollution begins! Our founder, Charles Moore, will be the keynote speaker for this 3-day conference. He he will present "The invasion of the biosphere by synthetic polymers". Congratulations, Charlie!
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July 9. Adriatic (white) and Mission figs, runner broad beans, last of the sugar snaps, semi-braided purple and white onions (12/bu), arugula, Serrano chilies, spearmint, peppermint, dill and lots more at Captain Charlie's, Urban Farm. COME ON BY SUNDAYS 10-4!
JUNETEENTH! Celebration with Scalet runner beans, Kentucky wonder pole beans, Sugar snap peas, Spring onions, cilantro, Italian herbs, lettuce, New Zealand spinach, last of the chard, and Chocolate persimmons.
June 4. First Sparkler radishes, young onions, sugar snaps, sapote negro, arugula and lettuce as starts in pots and as mature plants--both available today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
Read Captain Moore’s article “Plastic in Water Kills Lives”. English translation of the Dutch-language article by Charlot Verlouw in the Trouw newspaper of 5 October 2018.
Please read this Scie.nce.or article by Abigail Balzer Vigil . “Cleaning up ocean ‘garbage patches’ could destroy delicate ecosystems.”
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY FROM CAPTAIN CHARLIE’S URBAN FARM AND GARDEN!
Fresh herds including thyme, marjoram, spearmint, rosemary, cilantro and nasturtium flowers. Chocolate persimmons, loquats and Huauzontle (the gourmet seedstalks of lambsquarters). Also leaf lettuce, kale, and New Zealand spinach for Mother's day at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
April 25. Great to catch up with Eisenhower Fellowship winner Hayden Smith, founder of Sea Cleaners in New Zealand. King Charles helps Hayden's fleet of flotsam fighting skiffs take out trash from our precious ocean for "plastic (carbon) credits
April l 16. Everything Spring--all for you today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm!
Read Captain Moore’s Personal Note about the O.R.V. Alguita’s transition.
February 25. The Free & Open University of Eco-Sustainability Solar Tony Podcast with Captain Moore and Katie Allen Executive Director, Algalita Marine Research and Education.
February 23. Read REPORT ON O.R.V. ALGUITA TRANSITION
January 20. San Clemente Island is green! Arrival Wison cove for research equipment.1-21 Underway for seabird studies at San Clemente Island with OPDERA Founder Russ Johnson.
January 10, 2023
Captain Moore is offering his beloved O.R.V. AlguitaResearch Vessel for sale. Please read more.
October 27. The Brigantine Matthew Turner is the first square rigger to be built in San Francisco Bay in 85 years. It is an educational vessel serving thousands of students. We will board her today and also sail on her sister ship, the Seaward to study the scourge of microfiber Pollution!.
October 22. Number Nine! LBO President Valerie Condon showing Long Beach Organic's plan to convert bare dirt to lush Community Gardens with the help of 6th District Council Person Dr. Suely Saro, and Garden Master Joe Corso making it happen at 3121 Long Beach Blvd. Watch Captain Moore’s presentation.
Captain Moore recently joined the panel on the Australian Water Schools’s Webinar, “Drowning in Plastics”. Watch the You Tube.
October 27. I will join the Textile X Ocean Connector Sail hosted by Material World, a NOAA Marine Debris Program and National Marine Sanctuary Foundation partner, The organization is hosting an experiential learning program at the intersection of sustainable textiles and oceans:
September 8. San Francisco Bay Chronicle article. Kurtis Alexander reporting/ California becomes first state to test drinking water for microplastics
Jessica Clay, a student volunteer from Cal State Long Beach, works with a water sample from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. State water regulators plan to begin testing for plastics in drinking water next year.
Microplastics are everywhere. The tiny particles that shed from clothing, food packaging and tires linger in the air, the soil, the ocean and, almost certainly, your drinking water.On Wednesday, California became the first place in the nation, and perhaps the world, to begin requiring water agencies to test for the contaminant. State water regulators, after years of working with more than 20 labs in seven countries to pioneer a means of monitoring microplastics, adopted new testing and reporting requirements that will take effect next year.
September 11. Ah, yes..old triple beam balance to weigh out end of summer harvest of cucumbers, tomatoes, limes and curry leaf. We are in tropical mode post Hurricane Kay.!
October 4. Australian Water School Interview. Captain Moore will participate in a webinar “Drowning in Plastics”
September 4. Reminder that Captain Moore’s Urban Farm Garden is open every Sunday from 10am to 4pm.
Today’s fare What's hot-tomatoes,cucumbers, green onions, garlic chives. What's cool-stevia sweetened limeade, dill pickles and dill seed
Read this great article from USC Annenberg Center - CCLP , "How plastic m"How plastic manufacturers have warped California’s landmark plastics act". “Purging Plastics, Polluted Politics” Great Captain Moore interview! Join The Plastic Pollution Conversation! Scroll down to read the interview and and review the vast amount of data.
July 31. Visit Captain Moore’s Home Farm every Sunday from 10am to 4pm. Adriatic and Mission figs, cherry tomatoes, limes Concord grapes, lemon verbena, mints, nopales, bay leaves, curry leaf, thyme rosemary, lemon grass and more today at Captain Charlie's Urban Farm.
2022 ELAP CONFERENCE Date: May 31 – June 3, 2022.
My Keynote Speech
May 14. A great day for Plastic Pollution Awareness! I spoke at The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Splash & Art Auction held at The Coronado Yacht Club. Earlier in the day I was able to visit to the Logan Heights public Montessori school in San Diego where 5th graders had been learning about plastic pollution. The teacher had prepared them brilliantly! I was happy to give the class the scoop on plastic pollution!
Read Captain Moore’s reflection on World Food Security and a remembrance of a Garden Party at The Maye Center.
HAPPY EARTH DAY! Great to be honored on Earth day by CA State Senator Lena Gonzalez along with legendary community activists, Laura Som, Alex J. Norman, and Marc Coleman at the 7 acre Urban Farm, The Growing Experience in North Long Beach! Talked planet ocean plastics during my brief talk at the end of the presentations.
Read about the current research projects underway at The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research (MIPPR).
Open Every Sunday - 10am to 4PM! Captain Moore’s Urban Farm. Full of frresh, healthy home grown produce. Stop by for a visit.
April 20. Santa Ana College Environmental Earth Day recognition eventClub. I will be Kenote Speaker at the Sustain-A-Palooza Earth Day Event.
January 17. A great day of service with my Algalita/Moore Institute Family for MLK Day yesterday. We cleaned up bag after bag of plastic and trash from the San Gabriel river where it changes from cement lined to natural banks. We had to leave shopping cart Island for another time!
Meeting at the Moore Institute with an award winning 10th grader working on quantifying nanoplastics in drinking water using a laser.!
The October Plastic Health Summit in Amsterdam was a huge success!. Please watch my Keynote Address. All of the presentations were videoed and cab be viewed on the Foundations’s YouTube channel.
Global Crisis post on Twitter. Plastic debris and pollution in the ocean. Excerpt from a Congressional Conference held on July 24 .
Check the “In the News” page for posts during his visit to Amsterdam!
October 6. Watch Captain Moore’s testimony at the Congressional Hearing on Public Water Health.
Visit my Urban Farm every Sunday from 10am to 4pm , year round!.
As a non-profit researching the problem of plastics in our oceans, we need your help! If you'd like to be part of the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution family, please consider a donation today; your contribution keeps our (microscope) lights on!”
THE MOORE INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOR PLASTIC POLLUTION WEBSITE IS NOW LIVE!
Press Release Announcement . This is a new field of study in the minute particle realm—Micro & Nano plastics. After years of educating and warning about the dangers of a “plastic plague”, it became abundantly clear we had failed to stop this insidious pollutant. In 2019, studies on the complexity of drinking water analysis techniques were begun by a group of 34 laboratories, including Algalita. The complexity of both equipment and techniques necessary for this methods evaluation study revealed the necessity for establishing a new organization focusing solely on nanoplastics. Thus, The Moore Institute was founded.
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