by the elevated canopy

by the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

We consult to the media about canopy questions we have a canopy newsletter we have an email LISTSERV.

These canopy communities are fragile.

By the Canopy Raised High

By the Canopy Raised High

Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy

He saw nests in the canopy at one of our Canopy Confluences in the Pacific Northwest, and created this beautiful sculpture.

It's plastic pollution.

I was interested, and my canopy researcher colleagues have been interested in the dynamics of the canopy plants that live in the forest.

Recycling of plastic in many developing countries means the incineration of the plastic, the burning of the plastic, which releases incredible toxic chemicals and, once again, kills people.

I'm also concerned about the plastic in the refrigerator, and I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic into us and into our bodies.

It's a plastic bag.

And both in the production of plastic, the use of plastic and the disposal of plastic, the people who have the bull's eye on their foreheads are poor people.

It's a bad thing that plastic breaks down into smaller little bits, because it's always still plastic.

We've had dance people up in the canopy.

Controls your 3D plastic printer

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And that's a plastic polymer.

The Dirt on Plastic Waste

It's not just that gyre of plastic that I'm concerned about it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.

We must make the utmost effort to reduce the use of plastic packaging, and also to recycle all waste plastic.

Now look at that plastic chair.

Everything came in plastic, in cardboard.

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Mike Biddle We can recycle plastic

These boxes are made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This chair is made of plastic.

This plastic chair is very cheap.

And so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia.

4,000 of those ants live exclusively in the forest canopy.

And these are just a few examples of companies that are buying our plastic, replacing virgin plastic, to make their new products.

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Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Van Jones The economic injustice of plastic

Talk about more plastic bags than plankton.

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Dianna Cohen Tough truths about plastic pollution

Plastic explosives Other explosives and their precursors.

The most mysterious part of forests is the upper tree canopy.

And the last material I'm going to talk about today is plastic, and, of course, my toaster had to have a plastic case.

They have thousands and thousands of plastic bags.