Buffalo Commons Should Great Plains farmlands that have been abandoned be placed in common ownership, restocked with Bison and returned to their pre-colonial state? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Huge amounts of garbage are caught in a waste 'soup' that circles two vortexes in the northern Pacific. See its effects and efforts to reduce it. Everglades Sugar Sugar farming has devastated the Everglades. See how this fragile ecosystem has become a victim of progress and the fight to restore it to it's former glory.