The Plastiki, a boat made entirely out recyclable plastics, set sail this Saturday from Sausalito Bay, near San Francisco. In the four days it has been at sea, the Plastiki has travelled two hundred ...

Not all plastics are created equal – and to prove it, a rakish banking heir and a team of young adventurers have built a huge ship out of plastic. Called Plastiki, the 60-foot catamaran's hull is made ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The world needs men and women who do great things: lead nations, invent new devices, discover miracle cures - all those things that make our lives better. But we also need adventurers, people who do ...

Eleven thousand nautical miles, more or less. Twelve thousand empty plastic bottles, ditto. It’s an audacious sea story, and eco-adventurer David de Rothschild wants to tell it in tweets and blogs.

On March 20, a very odd boat set sail from Sausalito, Calif., just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Destination: Sydney, Australia. This was the Plastiki, a vessel made entirely of plastic, including ...

What do you do if you want to draw attention to the threats faced by the world’s oceans, in particular the huge amount of plastic waste that ends up in them? Easy, you sail across the Pacific Ocean, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A lot of bottle: Life on board the Plastiki When David de Rothschild sailed across the Pacific this year, the voyage became a model of the media-savvy eco-adventure. But what was life like aboard the ...

This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about the Plastiki, a boat made entirely of recyclable plastics, that David de Rothschild plans to sail across the Pacific Ocean. Here, de Rothschild ...

In a partly condemned Port Authority hangar on Pier 31 in San Francisco, just south of Fisherman's Wharf, David de Rothschild, a tall, bearded, 31-year-old Englishman, is standing on the deck of a ...

Not since Jack London sailed out the Golden Gate on a boat of his own design a century ago, not since Amelia Earhart flew off from Oakland bound for around the world in 1937, not in years has there ...