David de Rothschild is sailing to Australia on a boat made of plastic bottles. April 7, 2010— -- Nearly three weeks ago environmentalist David de Rothschild embarked on an 11,000 mile voyage ...

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.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SAN FRANCISCO — Banking heir David de Rothschild is sailing across 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 ...

David de Rothschild tells me a story about the time he got lost in Mongolia. He wanted to go on a “little adventure,” to race down the Gobi Desert, you know, just to see what was over there, because ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Banking heir David de Rothschild is sailing across the Pacific Ocean on 12,000 plastic bottles. The discarded containers were made into a catamaran called the Plastiki, which is ...

Check out a new book by David de Rothschild. April 21, 2011— -- Check out an excerpt of "Plastiki: Across the Pacific by Plastic: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans," documenting the journey of ...

Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People’s Choice award—every day. You ...