A post I just put on the farm blog:

I learned of this project (click) a couple of years ago, but bumped into it again today, and was reminded of the Earth Day post we did a couple of years ago about the Pacific Garbage Patch because the two are in no way unrelated. Chris Jordan traveled to Midway Atoll in 2009 to photograph the effects of the Pacific Garbage Gyre on the Albatross populations there, specifically the chicks who, 2000 miles from the nearest continent, are fed remnants of our poorly discarded plastic by their parents who mistake it for food. The photos (click) here, speak for themselves.

On the eve of Earth Day, these lead me to reflect upon the largely unseen, but no less profound, impact even those of us with the best of intentions have on this planet of ours.

It also brings into question the things we, like the foraging Albatross, mistake as food, but that's another post altogether..

To a lifetime of consciously- and continually- stepping up our efforts, and to putting our energies behind the things we believe in.

To Earth Day, folks.