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Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The pilot episode, entitled “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” follows our kids and KJ the Green Gorilla as they overcome a demented plot by Dr. Morlon Hufflebot to create an island of plastic bags in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 

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The pilot episode, entitled “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” follows our kids and KJ the Green Gorilla as they overcome a demented plot by Dr. Morlon Hufflebot to create an island of plastic bags in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 

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105 Comments about "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
Mrs. Garver’s Class| November 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am
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Funny cartoon about reusable bags, I liked the green gorilla, weird way to show the message but it was fun, sad that the surfer got hit by the plastic bag.

What was the deal with the worm in the guys head?

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Andrea Schamoz| June 30th, 2009 at 5:12 am
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Kew site…

Keep up the g00d work man!…

jojo| June 11th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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great video!!the best way to promote saving the earth!i am a environmentalist too and im young and at school i throw out garbage most of the time and i signed a petition saving the earth and another one on the net to save the earth!!and instead of vehicles i ride my bike with my friends it is awesome!!:)remember to save the earth it is a job the world must do and everyone should take part of this!!

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Janice Banta| April 21st, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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We were excited to try the great pacific garbage patch lesson for earth day, but it won’t play. It just leaves a blank screen. Is the site down or is there something else we could try?

Thank you,

Janice

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jaygolden replied on April 22nd, 2009 1:51 pm:

Hi,

Sorry to hear that you had trouble viewing our movie. Sometimes it’s a bandwidth issue.

Please make sure all of your other programs are turned off. Also if you can pls try
blip.tv/file/1550633
or
blip.tv/file/977868

or on Youtube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCeDB2MTzUs&feature=channel_page

Please let us know how it goes.

hope that helps…

best

jg & the gorilla team

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robyn xxx| March 25th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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dis is my fav vid on d whole internet. Lol. Love scoot, she’s my fav

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Natalia| March 10th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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OMG

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Rebecca| March 1st, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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I really enjoyed the animation. It was a great message in a captivating fashion. However, I question why the lead has to be a blond girl and the minorities are in the typical role of being secondary characters.

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Emmanuel| January 12th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
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i like your show i like the show when the turttle bit dr. hufflebot

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autumne| December 19th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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love it

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annie a| November 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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that was so awesome.. i enjoyed it and definatetely spreading this to my friends and their kids.., blessings

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Taryn French| November 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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My children are 4 and 6 and they saw your cartoon. We all enjoyed it, the characters, the message, and the funny music. I think having an entire cartoon show based on recycling is a great idea. However, I do think putting blame on large companies isn’t the answer. Teaching personal responsibility to the next generation is the best way we can help the planet. Teaching that one person can make a difference, and that you are in charge of yourown choices (good or bad) is what we teach our kids.
Just a thought.
Thanks for raising awareness and doing your part for our planet Earth!

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Jay replied on November 11th, 2008 7:24 pm:

Hi Taryn,

Thanks so much for your comment and your kind words. So glad you all enjoyed it.

You’re right, blame isn’t the answer. Finding a way to help the kids find their own answers is our goal. And to show that sometimes a worm does take over the controls.

Stay tuned for the next show coming out December 8th!

Go Gorilla!

The Gang

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Julie| November 5th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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cool song! Tell us when there are more!

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Bill Lindsey| August 27th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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While I agree with your messages of personal and munincipal responsibility for waste management and recycling, I find that your video goes way too overboard with misinformation on the plastic bag industry, and this is irresponsible.

This problem does not come from the plastic bag industry, but rather from personal and municipal irresponsibility.
Plastic bags can be and are being recycled into other useful products.
There are also degradable plastic bags now available.

The plastic bags I use for groceries / merchandise are re-used as garbage bags, otherwise I would have to buy and use even larger and bulkier plastic bags to contain my trash.
Studies by “Garbologists” have shown that plastic bags and other plastic materials still make up a minor percentage of materials that end up in landfills. Paper, wood, and metal products make up the majority of the waste stream.

So while your overall message for environmental responsibility is a good one, a responsible producer would provide a more fact-based approach on how to get there…….recycling, reusing, degradability, and incineration before landfill…….and in a personally and munincipally responsible way.

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M Hufflebot replied on December 17th, 2008 9:28 pm:

Excellent: all I have to do is wait for someone else to design and implement an industry devoted to getting rid of my grocery bags, that should be up and running easily in the next decade or so. The government will do it! They should pay for this anyway.

If the rest of the dweebs don’t want to take the free bags that’s their problem – they’re paying for it anyway!

Can you imagine the devastation it would cause to the economy if everyone were to take their reusable bag back to the store? And the inconvenience!

The garbage Bag argument is a good one, too. I have no idea what humanity did before we started using our grocery bags to throw things “away”, but I certainly don’t want to go back to the stone age.

Remember, Plastic Bags really ARE good for the environment. Support the downtrodden plasticrap industry. Everybody together now “Produce more Garbage! Produce More Garbage!”

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Omar(13 years)| July 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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o this was creepy…i had a dream that there was a new video up…….

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Omar(13 years)| July 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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Very nice….

when are more coming?

:<

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Jan| July 8th, 2008 at 9:15 am
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I picked up the GreenGorilla web here in Nordic through international news. Very nice! Hopefully it is not a one shot event and we can see soon follow up coming, otherwise, if nothing happens during weeks and weeks, people stop visiting…

As you working already on new episode, please take into queue the episode about energy saving – kids can do a lot for rising the energy efficiency starting from their own home or school.

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jaygolden replied on July 28th, 2008 4:53 pm:

Hi Jan,

Thank you so much, we are very aware of this, and so are hard at work both on our next episode and other cool things for the kids (and teachers) to enjoy. In fact, I’ve heard some rumor that we’ll have some fun energy-efficiency content coming up in October…

Best,

Jay & The GG Team

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Jan replied on August 15th, 2008 8:31 am:

Ha Jay! That is good news! Looking forward to see it soon. For time being I am going to publish Greengorilla on our web that targets energy efficiency

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Gorillas in the Green House! | TakePart Blog Network| July 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
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Warren| June 28th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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I liked the part when she was surfing.

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Green Gorilla in the Greenhouse at Ivan Enviroman| June 23rd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
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[...] pilot episode, entitled The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, follows the kids as they face a demented plot by Dr. Morlon Hufflebot to create an island of [...]

hannah smoot| June 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 am
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i love it! i watch it evry day when will the next episode come out?

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Socket replied on June 23rd, 2008 2:38 pm:

Hi Hannah,

Thanks for the comment!

We’re working on the next episode right now. Looks like the end of summer/beginning of fall. After that they should happen a lot more often. But we’ll be posting new videos and activities along the way. Thanks for watching!

Socket
Webmaster, Greenhouse

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Zeeq| June 21st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
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Not a bad start. The rhymes in the intro song are odd. They aren’t the best flowing. Nice counter-propaganda. Cartoons have always been colored by a point of view. This one is at least preferred. Dora the explorer always makes me mad in that sense. It reinforces human control over nature and other irritating ways of looking at things.

Why a worm as the evil brain-infecting creature? Why not an evil hive-minded nanobot colony that eats petroleum products?

I like the gorillas communication method. I think cypher is my favorite. Scoot is irritating. Bucket too, a bit. It is his speech patterns mostly, I think.

I like Buckets understanding of the world as cyclical.

Are you planning on making longer episodes at some point? I think part of the downside of this is that it is too short to go into enough depth with the problems or the characters, so everything ends up a bit over-simplified. The whole Meatrix series was great in that it managed to touch on many things within a reasonably short timeframe. I am aware that THAT video took advantage of an already widely known story set-up, and that this, as original media requires more explanation, I just wish it flowed and contained things more like those videos.

Nice try. I am glad you are going for it. Just keep working on it, yah?

Oh, one last thing. I think the “Related videos” section would be more effective ABOVE the comments. I was wondering what “real” video the folk were talking about and figured it was in the comments somewhere. I think that placement would get those videos watched and bring the reality to the viewer, increasing the drive to actually do something about these things.

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Patrick M| June 20th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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I love the new film.

“Where does it come from? Where does it go?”

Excellent.

I also like the rhymes.

I will pass it on to friends and family.

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Ashley| June 20th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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Yeah Andrew! and www.degradable.net! :D

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Nancy| June 20th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
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I love the theme tune. I’ve always wanted to sav e the enviroment and encouge my friends do it aswell, this website can easily help me to make them use reusable bags.

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