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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Hawaii Newsletter for Monday February 16, 2026 ( 1 items )  

Bowdoin College Highlights Book on Plastiglomerates and the Emerging Anthropocene
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Bowdoin College is highlighting a publication by Professor of Art Michael Kolster that explores how plastic waste fused with volcanic rock and sand on Hawaii's Big Island may become a permanent marker of humanity's presence in the geological record. Kolster's book, Mongrels of Our Making: The Plastiglomerates of Hawai'i, released by George F. Thompson Publishing, centers on plastiglomerates--hybrid formations created when beachside campfires melt discarded plastic into su  more