World’s First Ocean Cleaning System Will Be Launched in Japan

Boyan Slat, a 20-year-old creative mind Dutch guy has a lot on his plate, when he’s set out to do nothing less than rid the oceans of the millions of tons of plastic garbage that circle along their currents. He’s leading one of the most aspiring ocean cleanup efforts ever: to halve the amount of plastic debris floating in the Pacific within a decade. He’s judging by the backing that has rallied behind his innovative approach to the problem, there’s a good opportunity that he just might succeed.

The gigantic rotating currents in the world’s oceans make amassing or even monitoring garbage problematic, but he’s Ocean Cleanup Foundation is emerging a way to use those currents to its advantage. 

He envisages long-distance arrays of floats that’d skim garbage from the surface while letting aquatic life and the currents themselves to pass by beneath. The company estimations that a 100km stationary cleanup array could eliminate 42% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch over ten years, total representing a 70,320,000kg of plastic waste. For that purpose now, they’re installing a 2,000m trial system in Japan, which will become the longest floating structure in the world when it’ll complete. Slat leads a team of hundred oceanographers, naval engineers, translators, designers, and several others. He’s also getting support from vital political figures, like the mayor of Tsushima and the mayor of Los Angeles. Moreover, there’re some technical issues with the plan, which were brought up in a review. However, we’re optimism that Slat works the kinks out of his plan and succeeds his visionary goals!

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup says, well, taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. Not only will this first cleanup array contribute to cleaner waters and coasts but it simultaneously is a vital step towards our goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This deployment will allow us to study the system’s efficiency and durability over time.

Thousands of Giant Jellyfish Appears in Swarms off Britain’s Coast

The marvelously large groups of giant barrel Jellyfish are appearing in the water of coast of Britain. The jellyfish are appearing in this area, which are five feet in length.  The countless jellyfish are just everywhere, and never seen anything like it. Phtogorapher Steve Trewhella spotted the jellyfishes swarms when he was taking his grandson out for a trip on his dive boat. Fortunately, the creature's sting is inoffensive and can only cause a rash, so the diver was able to take pictures and even swim with them. Although, Barrel Jellyfish are famous for being harmless giants, since they’ve only feed on minuscule prey such as plankton. It is extremely rare instance for these stunningly colored aquatic animals to swim close to the coast, which is why current sightings have made headlines. Moreover, if the jellies stick around during the summer and autumn, their swarms will end up growing even bigger, since they breed in warm water at a remarkable rate. Source: My Modernmet

Marvelous Translucent Glass Sculptures That Beautifully Fragment Color and Light

An artist “Jiyong Lee” has created remarkable glass sculptures mainly inspired by his fascination with call division. The glass sculptures represent this scientific process, when the light plays of the glass, transforming the works of art into marvelous new forms. Well, as onlookers move around Lee's incredible creations, the surface, the sculptor's Segmentation series looks both simple and complex, representing the contrary relationship between clarity and intricacy. 

Moreover, the similar connection can be found within living beings, which adds a symbolic quality to these biologically-inspired glass structures. Therefore, in transforming solid glass by cutting, laminating, carving, and refining, Jiyong Lee invests an unbelievable amount of thought into his expressive work.  He says; I love to work with glass that has transparency and translucency, having two qualities that serve as flawless metaphors for what is recognized and unidentified about life science. Thus, the segmented, geometrical forms of my work represent cells, embryos, biological and molecular structures and each symbolizing the building blocks of life as well as the starting point of life. 

The exclusively refined translucent glass surfaces recommend the enigmatic qualities of cells and, on a larger scale, the cloudiness of their futures. The Segmentation series is delicate and quiet yet structurally complex. Here’s below you can see Lee’s marvelous work out. We’re sure; you’d love his work with great applause.  Source: My Modernmet and
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Attractive "Duck Lanes" Made in England to Protect Birds alongside Busy Waterways

The Canal & River Trust is an ecological charity that is inspiring people to be watchful of the animals that share our beautiful environment. This organization is in charge for maintaining over 2,000 miles of busy waterways in both England and Wales. Therefore, alongside the canals, there are selected paths where you’ll find cyclists, boaters, walkers, fishermen, and even horses pulling boats across the water. To recap citizens that they must carefully and thoughtfully spend time beside these bodies of water, the trust has made their motto “share the space; drop your pace; indeed this is a special place.

To hit this point home, Canal & River Trust in recent times made a special lane that is precisely for birds, make sure that local wildlife is protected and accounted for. These duck lanes are visibly marked off by a white line, a stenciled silhouette of a duck, and the hashtag “share the space”. The organization have painted in duck lanes on the tow path, just to highlight that there’s only so much space you can share and actually perhaps ducks need the priority. Source: My Modernmet

American Woman Quit her Fashion Career Job to Build Sustainable Bamboo House in Bali

American lady Elora Hardy left her successful fashion career in 2010 in New York and decides to go back to her childhood home in Bali, Indonesia. Well, where she decides to build bamboo houses for permanent living. More than five years of span period, Elora and her team at Ibuku have revolutionized bamboo construction, have faith in that this plant is both underused and an ideal renewable resource. After treating this material with boron to make it indigestible to insects, the group of talented artists has formed numerous amazing bamboo homes in Indonesia. She says; when I first saw these structures at Green School under construction 6 years ago, I just believed, this makes perfect sense and it is growing all around us. It's strong with elegant appearance. The strongly built house is earthquake-resistant. Why hasn't this happened sooner, and what can we do with it next?" questioned the bamboo enthusiast during her TED Talk.

Elora Hardy was enthused to utilize bamboo by her father John Hardy, who developed the Green School, which features magnificent bamboo structures that reveal the sustainable principles the school is based on. With this great idea in mind, Elora went on to make the Green Village, a sustainably built village that redefines what it means to use bamboo as a tool for construction. Therefore, the key for me was opening up the options of bamboo, architecture, and design at a high-end level. So, i wanted to the make the Green Village change the perceptions of bamboo to a cooler material and use it in inventive ways. I love making inventive, attractive things using craftsmanship that can open up and preserve. Source: My Modernmet