Bring Marine Awareness To City Streets With Grate Art
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When the filth and garbage of the city streets flow off the urban landscape of municipalities around the world, these discards of society often find their way to the world’s oceans.
Swimming into kelp or seaweed in the oceans is one thing, but hitting plastic bottles and bags is quite another.
Doug Woodring of Ocean Recovery Alliance is doing his best to bring awareness and action to the stemming the flow of matter and urban runoff from city streets to the oceans through his innovative Grate Art project. “Our Grate Art program is meant for storm drain awareness. This program is replicable anywhere, so in case there are students who from non-ocean-centric cities or countries, they could also bring something like Grate Art to their hometowns.”
For more information on Grate Art, visit here.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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