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OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-32341817196684081302012-06-03T16:49:00.001-07:002012-06-03T16:49:31.340-07:00BLUEMiND2: MindandOcean.org<iframe frameborder='0' height='396' width='460' src='http://embed.bambuser.com/broadcast/2705746'>BLUEMiND2: MindandOcean.org</iframe>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-49950916934818336592012-05-20T13:16:00.001-07:002012-05-20T13:16:53.766-07:00Bambuser broadcast<iframe frameborder='0' height='396' width='460' src='http://embed.bambuser.com/broadcast/2663740'>Bambuser broadcast</iframe>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-83524488418980400262012-05-19T20:06:00.000-07:002012-05-19T20:06:35.439-07:00BLUEMiND2: Where Nostalgia Is BornBLUEMIND2 will be held June 4-5th in Nags Head, Outer Banks, North Carolina
The event will be broadcast live here, as well as at <a href="http://MindandOcean.org">MindandOcean.org</a>
<object id="bplayer" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="460" height="396"><embed name="bplayer" src="http://static.bambuser.com/r/player.swf?username=livblue" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="460" height="396" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="opaque"></embed><param name="movie" value="http://static.bambuser.com/r/player.swf?username=livblue"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="opaque"></param></object>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-83430580735807722722011-10-02T22:56:00.000-07:002011-10-02T22:56:13.723-07:00#OccupyTheOcean<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">The Ocean is the single biggest feature of our planet.</span></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6025257173171702719" style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">From one million miles away we resemble a small blue marble, from one billion miles a pale blue dot.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth's surface, holds more than 80% of its biodiversity and 90% of its habitat.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Phytoplankton in the Ocean provide more than half of our oxygen and provides the basis of the primary protein for more than a billion people.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">More than half a billion people, mostly artisanal fishers, owe their livelihoods to the seafood industry.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Humans have derived unmeasurable inspiration, joy, recreation and relaxation from the Ocean for millennia.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">But WE have treated the Ocean poorly, and it's decline in recent decades has been catastrophic for our planet and its people.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">WE have put too much into the Ocean, in the form of oil, sewage, fertilizers and pesticides, antibiotics, plastic pollution, noise and increasing levels of CO2.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">WE have taken too much out of the Ocean by subsidizing and encouraging inefficient and destructive overfishing, bottom trawling, long-lining, purse seining, dynamite fishing, irresponsible aquaculture and illegal hunting.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">WE have destroyed the edge of the ocean--places like wetlands, kelp forests, mangrove forests, river deltas, coral reefs and seagrass beds--where diversity and abundance once thrived, now turned into dead zones growing in size and number.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As a result of OUR behavior, the wildest animals and most remote beaches on the planet carry plastic in them, coral reefs are on the verge of disappearing, shark populations have been decimated, the ocean is warming and becoming more acidic and fisheries are predicted to collapse globally.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This situation will only continue to spiral downward, unless we listen, learn and change.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">To slow, stop and then reverse this trend will take immediate, widespread and drastic actions, not isolated, small and incremental adjustments.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The control large corporations have over our political processes must be severed, bold legislation enacted and new behavior patterns widely adopted.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We need an Ocean Revolution.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The passionate individuals, organizations, expertise and solutions needed to do this exist around the world.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What is needed is a massive boost in personal and political will alongside strong actions and louder voices.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It is OUR coast and OUR Ocean.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The time is now to Occupy The Ocean.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">[This is a living document: repost this anywhere you like, personalizing and adding to it as you will, in support of your good work for the Ocean]</div></div></div></div>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-84534021610488410902011-05-19T01:14:00.000-07:002011-05-19T01:14:13.664-07:00BLUEMIND: Your Brain On Ocean<div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">-Wallace J. Nichols, PhD</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">"We are more than logical. We are human." - Jacques Yves Cousteau</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div class="photo photo_right" style="clear: right; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; width: 180px;"><div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img class="img" src="http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230036_10150234945166672_712731671_8524070_5423147_a.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></div><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 9px; line-height: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: left;">On June 2nd, BLUEMIND Summit: www.mindandocean.org at California Academy of Sciences (join our livecast), followed by an Ocean NightLife event...always a favorite.<br />
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</div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"> Once I met a man who hated the ocean. Intensely, he said. He described to me fear, negative associations and a general unease he couldn't quite put his finger on. His aversion was so strong -- especially when measured against my own great, unabashed love for the ocean -- that I'll never forget my bewilderment. Everyone I have ever known loves the ocean. I'm not talking about lower-case "l" kind of love either; the kind that we apply indiscriminately to pop stars, sports teams, soft drinks and chocolate bars. I mean the capital "L" kind of Love; the love that is unfathomable and ineffable, a fusion of respect, understanding, awe, sensuality and mystery.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Nearly a decade ago, I read with great interest reports of interrogators at Guantanamo promising detainees a swim in the tropical ocean as an inducement to cooperation. From those small, hot jail cells, clad in heavy jumpsuits, the ocean must have looked mighty inviting. The technique worked.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Later, in the summer of 2003, on a coastal trek from Oregon to Mexico, I walked past a beachfront bungalow for sale in Del Mar, California. Eight-hundred square feet, no lot, but the sound, smell, sight, touch and taste of the Pacific awaited just beyond the bedroom window. The asking price? A cool $6.3 million. They got their asking price, then some.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">It turns out that globally the ocean imparts a trillion dollar premium on hotel rooms, condos, houses and all other forms of coastal real estate. People want to see and hear the sea from where they eat and sleep and are willing to shell out a lot of green to get some blue.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I've also spent a lot of time with fishermen around the world. I've seen their working love of the ocean up close. Theirs is boundless joy in the freedom of a wide open, big blue space. It is the irresistible draw to a life spent catching seafood. In one Mexican lobstering co-op I work with, the rogue member who dares violate the community rules of "how many" and "how big" is banished to the packing facility with a never-ending view of white walls and stainless steel tables instead of big blue. For them, it is the worst punishment imaginable. Few, if any, subvert the community standards.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The poet Robinson Jeffers found language in the rhythm and drone of ocean waves and the meditative act of rolling boulders up from the sea to build his stone home. "The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty will remain when there is no heart to break for it," he wrote.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Canadian actor Michael J. Fox famously quit television right after spending a few hours blissfully following a sea turtle gliding through the blue Caribbean sea. "Never once after my encounter with the sea turtle have I wavered in my conviction that it was the right thing for me to do and the right time for me to do it," he wrote.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">A girl in the fourth grade at the San Francisco School sat in front of me holding a bright blue marble to her left eye. "It's beautiful in there, I can see whales and turtles and hear the ocean," she said. "I know just who I'm going to give this to."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I also queried the modern oracle (Twitter) on the topic of the #1 seafood (shrimp) and learned a lot about American's unbridled passion for cheap, fried crustaceans. We know that a certain kind of obsessed food and power addition underlies the extirpation of bluefin tuna, sharks and sea turtles, that get caught in shrimp nets, from the ocean.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">@DSchnell: Ate 90 pieces of shrimp at Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp, now it's time for bed</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">@davezatz: Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp would be more appealing if they provided an announcer and scoreboard. Gluttony ftw</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">@OREOaddict16: i just ate my weight in endless shrimp at red lobster..yum =)</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And, whenever I travel -- which is a lot -- I invariably meet total strangers who say: "So, you're a marine biologist? I dreamed of being a marine biologist when I was a kid!" And they'll disappear on the red Zodiac, chasing down whale songs on the ocean in their head.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">We humans offer up our dreams, our secrets and our treasure to the sea from whence we came. Those imprisoned terrorists, lifelong fishermen, deep-pocketed property owners, poets, shrimp and tuna addicts and world-weary travelers clearly feel great emotional pull towards the ocean. But, why? What is it about the ocean that speaks to us on such a fundamental, profound human level? I have always wanted to know, but my chosen profession, science -- skeptical, detached, dispassionate science -- wouldn't allow me to go there.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">When I was a graduate student, I tried to weave emotion into my dissertation on the relationship between sea turtle ecology and coastal communities. No luck. My advisors steered me to other departments, another career even. "Keep that "fuzzy" stuff out of your science, young man," they counseled. Emotion wasn't rational. It wasn't quantifiable. It wasn't science.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">But, the human-ocean connection, BLUEMIND as we've dubbed it, held me in its grip even as my career as a scientist blossomed. Eventually, I shaped my general philosophy into an effort called "The Mind and Ocean Initiative." Today, I think -- actually, I know -- it is time for a new kind of ocean science.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Economists, marketers and politicians recognize that deep-seated, inscrutable emotions, not rationality, are what rule human behavior. Aided by cognitive neuroscientists, these fields have begun to understand how our deepest, most primordial emotions drive virtually every decision we make, from what we buy to the candidates we elect. To my way of thinking, if the lessons of cognitive neuroscience can be used for the crass purposes of influencing what people buy and how they vote, why not use such knowledge for ocean conservation? I believe we can. And, I believe we should.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Consider these questions:</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Why is "ocean view" the most valuable phrase in the english language, bestowing a 50% premium on everything from lunch to a night's sleep in a hotel room to a beachfront cottage?</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">If stress causes disease, and the ocean reduces stress, is time spent in, on, under or near the ocean good medicine?</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Can our deepening understanding of brain science be applied to better protection for ocean animals being eaten to extinction by addicted and power-hungry humans?</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">We must seize this particular moment in time -- when the nascent power of neuroscience is burgeoning and the popular momentum is toward conservation rather than exploitation. We can use science to explore and understand the profound and ancient emotional and sensual connections that lead to deeper relationships with the ocean. I believe that if we do that we have an opportunity for real conservation gains that could do some true and lasting good for the ocean and planet Earth.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">It's time to drop the old notions of separation between emotion and science. <em>Emotion is science</em>. Let's convene the top marine scientists, skilled communicators, dedicated conservationists, and leading neurobiologists and cognitive psychologists to ask and answer the most probing and compelling set of questions about the ocean that we can imagine. Let's explore the mind-ocean connection -- <em>our</em> BLUEMINDs.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Let's mentor a new wave of passionate and brilliant graduate students to get their PhD's in the breakthrough field of NeuroConservation. And together, let's mine neuroscience to develop a set of powerful conservation tools that educators, advocates, policymakers, medical doctors and scientists can use to better and more deeply engage, inspire and lead people in the restoration and protection of our beloved ocean.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Who knows what we will find. It's likely, maybe even certain, that the greatest unexplored mysteries of the sea are buried not under a blanket of blue, but deep in the human mind. The lessons and new questions are in there. They await only discovery.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">BLUEMIND: Your Brain On Ocean is being held June 2nd, 2011 at the California Academy of Sciences. Watch and listen live online at <a href="http://www.MindandOcean.org/">www.MindandOcean.org</a></div>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-50739691477754256322010-06-08T12:39:00.000-07:002010-06-08T12:39:53.858-07:00What Would Jacques Do? 100 Years of Oil + Plastic<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>By Wallace J. Nichols, Sarah Kornfeld, Jake Dunagan and Stuart Candy</i></span><br />
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</i> Jacques Yves Cousteau spent halcyon days gliding above and beneath the ocean. He lived among the largest mammals and sea drift. He was the master educator and voice for the sea. And so, on this, the 100th anniversary of his birth, it is a sorry state of affairs that we cannot celebrate the legacy of his ocean life, but instead it is the centennial of our own legacy with oil, plastic and associated toxins we must confront. One hundred years ago, 1910, the fossil-fuel-based plastics industry was born, as was Cousteau, and thus began the first plastic century.<br />
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Plastic is made from oil and gas, plain and simple, yet we do not think of oil or plastic pollution when we think of Cousteau. We think mostly of how he inspired wonder in us. We wondered at life aboard the Calypso with its salty crew. And, this wonder for the sea has engendered generations of people to become oceanographers, biologists, divers and simple lovers of the sea. But, if we do not make the serious connection -- now -- between the legacy of Cousteau and our legacy with petroleum we will sully the memory of the man.<br />
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Yet, the memory of the ocean was hardly what Cousteau was all about: he was really about the future of the ocean. He was always looking ahead -- not behind. He wanted people to have knowledge so that they could have foresight. His great genius was not that he made you want to go swimming today; it was that he inspired you to want to know deeply and explore constantly the ocean in the immediate future, and always.<br />
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"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work," he said.<br />
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Right now, however, we have our thinking backwards; we are watching a reckless and inane "clean up" of the Gulf of Mexico play out in slow motion. What can we imagine he would say right now? Would we listen? Would we nod our heads with a sense of security that the great man was leading us, teaching us, telling us how to get out of this mess? What would he do? Would we join him?<br />
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Who knows, but a good guess is that that great lover of the sea, and great pragmatist for the environment might be furious. Enraged. Heartbroken. One can imagine at the same time, the man rallying us to demand substantial legislative changes, responsible action from the oil industry, and a global systemic shift away from oil/plastic/toxins because our very lives depend on it. His line in the sand would be deep and long.<br />
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But, he's not here, is he? Yet, his 100th birthday is right before us. His legacy of an ocean is literally mired in the slick dependence we have on oil. So, let's make the list that a pragmatic leader like Cousteau might offer.<br />
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Let's do this:<br />
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Tell someone each day what our Ocean Planet, our one and only blue marble, means to you. Describe how you love it, why you want to see it and hear it. Love is stronger than apathy, and your vision for the future of what you love can impact people. Use all of the media at your disposal to share your oceanophilia, get in on rallies, letter writing and vote for the ocean.</div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Stop pouring toxins, any toxins, into the drains around you, onto your food, into your tank or into your body: you can show BP what responsibility looks like -- what you don't pour down the drain won't get to the ocean. "Think tank," you might say. Think about what goes in it and what comes out.</div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Remember that great people leave Earth, but plastic never does. Reject straws, coffee lids, forks, or anything plastic you use once then throw away. First off, they are made of oil and gas and can make you sick. Second, when they end up in the ocean they make the ocean sick. Try as best you can to free your home, school and business of single-use disposable plastics.</div><div><br />
</div>The time is now for us, the lovers of the sea. We cannot wait for a great tide to take the oil, and our need for it, away to a magical place. And, we can't wait for the memory of great people to inspire us to change. We must honor their memory by doing something great ourselves.<br />
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Each of us must be Cousteau -- we must embody his legacy with a vision for the future: one that includes a world with a healthy, thriving sea. We must embody his memory -- a person who wanted a healthy, thriving future for the planet.<br />
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Ask yourself, "What would Jacques do?" Act as he would. Because we are all ocean activists now.<br />
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<i>Wallace J. Nichols, Sarah Kornfeld, Jake Dunagan, and Stuart Candy, are a hybrid art- science-futures collaboration. Their installation Plastic Century is an interactive installation created for the California Academy of Sciences that explores the relationship between plastic, people, and the environment over the 100 years since the birth of Jacques Cousteau. The installation will be at the California Academy of Sciences June 3rd and June 10th. The Plastic Century Team is currently in residency at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), in San Francisco.</i>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-4801683363199307712010-04-09T23:38:00.001-07:002010-04-09T23:38:03.464-07:0019 of the Greatest Ocean Heroes of All Time<a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/ocean-heroes-460410>19 of the Greatest Ocean Heroes of All Time</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-34622236024039592562010-04-01T14:23:00.001-07:002010-04-01T14:23:59.201-07:00People Protect What They LoveYes, brother! LIVBLUE: Let's live like we love the ocean (because we do!)<br /><br /><br /><br />Thank you for carrying on the legacy with such passion and style.<br /><br /><br /><br />J<br/><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fabien-cousteau/people-protect-what-they_b_520906.html?just_reloaded=1">Read the Article at HuffingtonPost</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-9871038315350698712009-09-26T18:23:00.000-07:002009-09-26T18:24:54.383-07:00LIVBLUE: pluckfastic.orgWhat does "pluckfastic" mean and why do I need to know?<div><br /></div><div>Find out <a href="http://www.pluckfastic.org">HERE</a> and get your sticker!</div>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-20424787337678280002009-08-31T17:43:00.000-07:002009-08-31T17:45:05.097-07:00SaveJapanDolphins.org<div>More <a href="http://www.savejapandolphins.org">HERE</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; ">From Ric Barry: "I hope you'll join me in this campaign to stop the killing of dolphins in Japan. Most people in Japan don't have any idea that the dolphin slaughter is even happening. If we can spread the word around the world - and especially in Japan - we can expose the secret of Taiji and force the Japanese government to stop it. We can win this issue - but we need your help!"</span></div>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-56041349490769337612009-08-24T13:54:00.000-07:002009-08-24T13:57:28.419-07:00LIVBLUE: Thinking Like a Coconut<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3Kbg-BIkb6bkVVbrozhkD8ctL_MyOohHxDnQxvhvgbE1zwSYQWRk2xvNobrO5AB5BxMk3bwZPsgy80NjJxQ1cOwGZfgEX4ykm0mvk-CODiShtCTcgZ4NDXF1Ug1L4AT1L2WJ8lH0kcA/s1600-h/_DSC0439_2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3Kbg-BIkb6bkVVbrozhkD8ctL_MyOohHxDnQxvhvgbE1zwSYQWRk2xvNobrO5AB5BxMk3bwZPsgy80NjJxQ1cOwGZfgEX4ykm0mvk-CODiShtCTcgZ4NDXF1Ug1L4AT1L2WJ8lH0kcA/s200/_DSC0439_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373636898991384450" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On a small island you’ve never heard of, in a small group of islands you’ve never heard of, in the South China Sea, native coconuts grow. Green sea turtles climb the beach at night. They lay their small round eggs in a narrow, deep hole they carved in the sand with their rear flippers. Then they go back to the sea, across the reef, to wait for another night.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><p class="paragraph_style" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; "><br /></p><p class="paragraph_style" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; "><a href="http://www.wallacejnichols.org/wallacejnichols/Blog/Entries/2009/8/23_Thinking_Like_a_Coconut.html">Read more HERE</a></p></span></div>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-41129736375029307132009-08-03T09:09:00.000-07:002009-08-03T09:10:38.491-07:00LIVBLUE: It's Blue August at Planet GreenCheck it out <a href="http://bit.ly/MqX2Z">HERE</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-28241907766888092302009-08-03T09:08:00.001-07:002009-08-03T09:08:50.336-07:00New England Aquarium goes BLUE!Check out the live blue initiative at the New England Aquarium<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.liveblueinitiative.org/">HERE</a></div>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-14466424189342463762009-06-08T11:41:00.000-07:002009-06-08T11:43:16.438-07:00LIVBLUE: Statement on Plastic Pollution (English and Spanish)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /><br />World Oceans Day Brings Warnings from Plastic Pollution Council<br /><br />June 8, 2009, San Francisco, California<br /><br />Following a presentation to Google employees by Captain Charles Moore, an oceanographer who pioneered the study of plastic debris, the Strategic Council on Plastic Pollution convened at the Google Campus in Mountain View, California on June 4, 2009. It was the first meeting for the council on plastic pollution, which was recently formed to raise awareness of this rising threat to the world's oceans. Said council member and marine biologist Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, “We are finding plastic in the stomachs of sea turtles, birds, and fish all over the world. I find this extremely disturbing." In honor of World Oceans Day, the council has issued the following statement regarding this increasingly urgent threat to wildlife and human health:<br /><br />"Do you know where our plastic goes?<br /><br />Did you know that our oceans are filling up with plastic pollution?<br /><br />Plastic fragments contaminate even the most remote locations on earth, and harmful chemicals leached by plastics are present in the bloodstream and tissues of almost every one of us.<br /><br />Plastic pollution harms people, animals, and the environment. Plastic is not biodegradable. In the marine environment, plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller particles that absorb toxic chemicals, are ingested by wildlife, and enter the food chain that we depend on.<br /><br />Consumption of throwaway plastics, such as bottles, containers, bags, and packaging, has spiraled out of control.<br /><br />Recycling is not a sustainable solution. The reality is that most of our plastic waste is landfilled, downcycled or exported to other countries. And tragically, millions of tons of plastic are poisoning our oceans.<br /><br />Businesses and governments need to take responsibility for new ways to design, recover and dispose of plastics.<br /><br />Plastic pollution is the visible symbol of our global crisis of over-consumption. Let's pledge to shift our societies away from the disposable habits that poison our oceans and land, eliminate our consumption of throwaway plastics, and begin embracing a culture of sustainability.<br /><br />Our health, our children, and the survival of future generations depend on us."<br /><br />Press contact: (English & español) Manuel Maqueda, <a href="mailto:manuelmaqueda@gmail.com">manuelmaqueda@gmail.com</a> +(415)839-7777 (GMT -8 h)<br /><br />Statement on YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdwVQtNfng">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdwVQtNfng</a><br /><br /><br />COMUNICADO DE PRENSA<br /><br />El Consejo sobre Polución por Plásticos lanza advertencia en el Día Mundial de los Océanos<br /><br />8 de junio de 2009. San Francisco, California,<br /><br />Tras una conferencia impartida a los empleados de Google a cargo del Capitán Charles Moore, el oceanógrafo pionero en el estudio de los residuos de plástico, el Consejo Estratégico sobre Polución por Plásticos se reunió en la sede central de Google en Mountain View, California. Se trata de la primera reunión de este consejo, formado recientemente para dar a conocer esta creciente lacra que afecta a los océanos del planeta. El Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, biólogo marino y miembro de este consejo, afirmó: “Estamos encontrando fragmentos de plástico en el estómago de tortugas marinas, aves y peces. Es algo que me parece extremadamente preocupante.”<br /><br />En honor del Día Mundial de los Océanos, el Consejo emitió la siguiente declaración respecto a esta urgente amenaza para la fauna y la salud humana:<br /><br />"¿Sabes a dónde va a parar nuestro plástico?<br /><br />¿Sabías que nuestros mares se están llenado de contaminación por plásticos?<br /><br />Incluso las regiones más remotas del planeta se encuentran contaminadas por fragmentos de plástico. La sangre y los tejidos de la mayoría de nosotros contienen productos químicos nocivos segregados por los plásticos.<br /><br />La contaminación por plásticos perjudica a las personas, a los animales y al medio ambiente. El plástico no es biodegradable. En el medio marino, el plástico se va fragmentando en trozos cada vez más pequeños, los cuales absorben productos químicos tóxicos, son ingeridos por los seres vivos, y entran en la cadena alimentaria de la cual dependemos.<br /><br />El consumo de plásticos desechables, como botellas, recipientes, bolsas y embalajes ha crecido de forma descontrolada.<br /><br />Reciclar no es una solución sostenible. En la práctica, la mayoría de nuestros residuos plásticos son arrojados en vertederos, son convertidos en materiales de calidad inferior, o son exportados a otros países. La trágica realidad es que millones de toneladas de plástico están envenenando nuestros océanos.<br /><br />Las empresas y los gobiernos tienen que hacerse responsables de la tarea de encontrar nuevas maneras para diseñar, recuperar y deshacerse de los plásticos.<br /><br />La polución por plásticos es un símbolo visible de nuestra crisis global de consumismo. Comprometamonos a renunciar a los materiales desechables que envenenan nuestros mar y tierra, eliminemos nuestro consumo de plásticos de usar y tirar, y comencemos a adoptar una cultura basada en la sostenibilidad.<br /><br />Nuestra salud, nuestros hijos y la supervivencia de las generaciones futuras dependen de nosotros."<br /><br />El Consejo Estratégico sobre Polución por Plásticos es un grupo de expertos en el estudio, comunicación y paliación de este problema medioambiental, con sede en San Francisco, California. Su misión es acordar estrategias para la correcta comunicación y paliación de la polución por plásticos en todo el mundo.<br /><br />Contacto de prensa: (English & español) Manuel Maqueda, Consejo Estratégico sobre Polución por Plásticos, <a href="mailto:manuelmaqueda@gmail.com">manuelmaqueda@gmail.com</a> +(415)839-7777 (GMT -8 h).<br /><br />###<br /></span>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-34395960654345112742009-06-08T11:37:00.000-07:002009-06-08T11:41:07.575-07:00LIVBLUE: World Ocean Day Video Statement on Plastic Pollution<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:11px;"><h1 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:24pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 103, 153); font-family:Arial;font-size:20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:11px;"><h1 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:24pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 103, 153); font-family:Arial;font-size:20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; white-space: pre; font-size:10px;"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sxdwVQtNfng&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sxdwVQtNfng&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></span></span></h1><h1 face="'Times New Roman'" size="24pt" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 48px; color: rgb(51, 103, 153);"><br /></span></h1></span></span></h1></span>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-13635238997022873062009-05-25T18:15:00.000-07:002009-05-25T18:16:57.238-07:00Huffington Post: Your blue marbleThe Huffington Post<br />MAY 25, 2009<br /><br />Wallace J Nichols<br />Posted: May 25, 2009 07:26 PM<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wallace-j-nichols/what-will-you-do-with-you_b_207408.html">What will you do with your blue marble?</a><br /><br />Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Ocean, Ocean Day, Pollution, Recycling, Green News<br /><br />Do you know where to get the best local, sustainable seafood? Do you clean up plastic litter, even if it's not yours and no one is watching? Do you take reusable bags to the grocery store? In other words, do you live blue?<br />Well then, here's a marble.<br /><br />If someone hands you a small blue marble don't be surprised. Here's what to do: give it away to someone who is also taking care of our little blue planet. Or give it to someone else along with a tip about how to live blue: where to get the best local organic food, how to avoid plastic waste, or which politicians and businesses are true blue.<br /><br />Then pause for a moment and consider that tens of thousands of similar recycled-glass blue marbles are passing from hand to hand right now, making their way around the Earth, our big blue marble. If you get one, give one. And then, please share your story with all of us at BlueMarbles.org and inspire others to live blue. Next World Ocean Day, in June 2010, we'll check in on all the stories those blue marbles tell.<br /><br />Blue Marble is the name given to the most replicated photo ever, it's the one made by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 as they pointed their Hasselblad camera back at an illuminated Earth. From up there we looked small, fragile, beautiful...and blue. Sort of like a blue marble.<br /><br /> Understandably, the green patches of our planet get most of the eco-attention--albeit not nearly enough--while the blue expanses quietly take the hit. I've heard it said that less than 1% of eco-funding goes to caring for the blue world. But, the fact is we live on a blue planet, not a green one, or a brown one. Earth is mostly water, surrounded by a light blue or dark blue sky. Life came from the ocean, and most of our planet's life and habitable space is in the ocean. We know all too well that the ocean gives us our climate, the air we breathe, and food to eat.<br /><br />But we've treated Big Blue like a giant dump. Our chemicals, exhaust, emissions and trash are blown away with the breeze or washed away with the tide. Invisible. Out of sight. Out of mind. Global warming, ocean acidification, toxic seafood and plastic-laden seas and beaches mean that dilution is no longer a viable solution to pollution.<br /><br />But our hope isn't false or shallow. Soon, the health of the ocean, once the wallflower of the environmental movement, will move to center stage, and not a moment too soon.<br /><br />Those in the know say that 2010 is going to be a big year for the blue parts of our planet. Beginning with World Ocean Day this June 8th (now recognized by the UN) a string of ocean events flows outward including the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Archie Carr, the father of sea turtle conservation, the premier of the IMAX film OCEAN, World Ocean Day 2010 and the anniversary of Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday. Ocean explorer Dr. Sylvia Earle, aka "Her Deepness," has made a global network of marine protected areas her TED Prize wish. Our new administration put an ocean scientist Dr. Jane Lubchenco at the helm of NOAA and is poised to change climate change and energy policies at home and around the world for the better (to put it mildly).<br /><br />The message is quite clear: we must do more for the ocean, we must do it better and we must do it now.<br />Your local "blue" organizations--the frontline warriors--need your help. These days "help" means money, so update your memberships at your favorite grassroots non-profit. While you're at it, renew your commitment to the national organizations like Ocean Champions, Ocean Conservancy and Oceana, the people who, day-in and day-out, lobby for and shape the plans and policies that will restore healthy oceans. Without our support these groups are not going to make it, which means neither will we.<br /><br />If you're not convinced, just consider what our ocean would look like without the people who have fought for it through the years. More oil rigs, an extra few thousand tons of trash, lots more runoff, fewer fish, whales and turtles, lack of public access and poorer ocean illiteracy leap to mind.<br /><br />But it's not all about what they do. It's also about each of us. Hit the beach, roll up your sleeves and volunteer to pick up that trash even when no one is watching, eat "blue" by making the most local and sustainable choices and shop "blue" by looking for reusables and biodegradables first.<br /><br />We all owe these ocean saints a world of thanks. Maybe your neighbor, teacher, co-worker or partner is one of them. In fact, I'll bet you're one of them, too. If so, then one day, very soon, I hope someone puts a blue marble into your hand and says, "thank you."<br /><br />And then, when that blue marble is yours, you'll know exactly what to do with it.OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-86617539606508046662009-05-22T14:13:00.000-07:002009-05-22T14:14:12.897-07:00LIVBLUE: Blue Marble MovementThe Blue Marble Movement<br /><br />Here's a simple, wonderful concept: Send a blue marble to folks who are living a life that preserves OUR blue marble -- this beautiful Planet Earth. Encourage them to "pay it forward" and pass the marble along to others who are doing the same. Collect the stories of these marbles & people as they journey around the planet. (In prose and poetry, in pictures and videos.) Then share the stories on a day of celebration.<br /><br />Read more at the Monterey Bay Aquarium site <a href="http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2009/05/the-blue-marble-movement.html">HERE</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-35348591020213736192009-05-21T21:45:00.000-07:002009-05-21T21:48:52.122-07:00LIVBLUE: Celebrate World Ocean Day @ Ocean Revolution 5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">Ocean Revolutionaries,<br /><br />Celebrate World Ocean Day on June 5th at Ocean REVolution 5 @ The Catalyst in downtown Santa Cruz, CA<br /><br />Support our great local ocean advocate at Ocean Revolution, Save The Waves, Save Our Shores, Ocean Conservancy, Surfrider, Ocean Conservancy, FishWise and O'Neill Sea Odyssey<br /><br />We're proud to announce The Mother Hips and Hot Buttered Rum will be making musical bliss for the ocean. See <a href="http://www.catalystclub.com">www.catalystclub.com</a> for tickets and more info.<br /><br />For the past five years we have celebrated World Ocean Day with powerful music delivered by ocean-loving musicians, uniting our ocean advocacy efforts and recognizing that the future of the ocean is in our generation's hands. This isn't a fundraiser or an educational event...it's just really, really good live music for the ocean with our friends. Spread the word about these great organizations and celebrate our accomplishments and the good hard work ahead.<br /><br />Each year we produce a new concert poster, now sought after collectibles. The OR5 poster is attached as a pdf. Feel free to print, post, email and otherwise distribute far and wide.<br /><br />Thanks to Max Davis for design work and a big thanks to The Mother Hips and Hot Buttered Rum!!<br /></span>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-83533637779993486632009-05-06T19:57:00.001-07:002009-05-06T19:57:53.818-07:00Experimental project to clean Pacific Ocean garbage patchProject Kaisei is a bold attempt to filter out and recycle plastic from the continent-sized patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean.<br /><br />Read more <a href="http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/experimental-project-to-clean-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch">HERE</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-12317213207976021162009-05-04T08:08:00.000-07:002009-05-04T08:09:32.848-07:00LIVBLUE: Get Outside YourselfNew Volunteer Match Program Connects Travelers with Sea Turtle Conservation Projects<br /><br />For your next volunteer vacation, how about a close-up and personal encounter with one of the world's most mystical and prehistoric creatures? That is what engagement with sea turtles is all about. There are many projects around the world that work in sea turtle conservation. In order to find the best one for you, check out the new volunteer placement service that <a href="http://www.seeturtles.org">SEE Turtles</a> is offering at www.seeturtles.org. The free service matches interested travelers with sea turtle projects in Mexico, Costa Rica, Tobago, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. <br /><br />Read More <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/getoutsideyourself/archives/167254.asp">HERE</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-6599828989329432962009-04-30T23:29:00.000-07:002009-04-30T23:31:30.178-07:005th Annual Ocean Revolution World Ocean Day Concert<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqUATs2a10xxD1DZwwLVe1kXObFZaDXX508ouRUc4HsN9AhXrBQSD32_zxAbn6vrOTly3N5kJAQ85z_o_lmcEFf-hNSJwyDk65Zhp5zRrQcVrZ9bNRE6O11mWOJYmGCVURQUkROblWwk/s1600-h/OR.V.4a.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqUATs2a10xxD1DZwwLVe1kXObFZaDXX508ouRUc4HsN9AhXrBQSD32_zxAbn6vrOTly3N5kJAQ85z_o_lmcEFf-hNSJwyDk65Zhp5zRrQcVrZ9bNRE6O11mWOJYmGCVURQUkROblWwk/s200/OR.V.4a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330739345754799010" /></a><br />June 5th<br /><br />Save the Date!<br /><br />Details to be announced soon!OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-69263592751626671652009-04-30T23:25:00.000-07:002009-04-30T23:26:12.214-07:00FEATURED COLUMN: Message in a Bottle: The Problem is PlasticFEATURED COLUMN: Message in a Bottle: The Problem is Plastic<br /><br />By Dr. Wallace J. Nichols<br />Monday, April 27, 2009 1:19 AM EDT<br />PostStar.com<br /><br />"Walked out this morning, don’t believe what I saw, a hundred billion bottles, washed up on the shore." -Sting Last month, the leaders of a global coastal cleanup network 400,000 strong, spanning 104 countries and 42 states, met in Washington, DC coinciding with the release of the expansive report, "A Rising Tide of Ocean Debris." <br /><br />After almost a quarter-century of garbage and data collection from creeks, bays, lakes, reefs, beaches and oceans of the world, the results are crystal clear: The problem of debris in the ocean is not "debris," but plastic. Debris is what blows off trees onto the grass, or the driftwood and kelp that have naturally washed up on our beaches for millennia. The term "marine debris" is a euphemism—an Orwellian framing device promoted by plastics industry public relations pros.<br /><br /> The mess in our ocean is made almost exclusively of plastic—plastic ropes, fishing nets and traps, plastic bags and bottles, plastic food containers, bottle caps, rubber ducks, flip-flops, plastic syringes, toothbrushes, diapers, tampon applicators and condoms, plastic cigarette filters and lighters. Gazillions of nurdles—those little tiny pellets that are the raw industrial material for many molded plastic items—are mixed with seawater and sand wherever the currents can take them. Depending on where you are in the world, plastic makes up nearly 100% of what washes up on the beach both in terms of the number of items and their mass. <br /><br />While the public involvement and growing attention on this issue so evident in "A Rising Tide" are hopeful signs of a solution, plastic in the ocean remains an expanding threat to both human and animal well-being. In his new book, "Flotsametrics," oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer writes that samples of just about everything ever made of plastic can be found washed up on the beaches of the world. <br /><br />Plastic and water just don’t mix for two main reasons: plastic floats and it doesn’t go away for a very long time. By plastic, of course, I’m referring to the wide range of synthetic organic solid materials used to manufacture myriad consumer products. They are typically polymers of high molecular weight that often contain additives to improve things like flexibility and/or reduce costs.<br /><br /> Plastic comes in many shapes, sizes and uses; it originates from every corner of the globe; and, it is a ubiquitous product of most every industry. Since the 1950s, one billion tons of plastic has been discarded. In the past two decades, plastic use has simply exploded across the planet. It is a blight on coastal villages around the world, invading in thousands of new forms, without an exit strategy. Since the 1960s, the number of plastic items in the stomachs of leatherback sea turtles, minke whales and Laysan albatrosses has spiked. <br /><br />Recently, on a research expedition to Indonesia, I witnessed a line of plastic on remote island beaches that are nesting grounds for endangered sea turtles. I saw walls of burning plastic sliding down cliffs into the sea. I found plastic fishing gear wrapped around reefs. Plastic bags clogged the intake of our outboard motor every fifteen minutes.<br /><br /> In the bluest heart of ocean biodiversity floats a sea of plastic. <br /><br />Granted, plastic "falls from our hands, not the sky," but manufacturers who churn out more and cheaper plastic at an alarming, increasing pace are spreading the problem irresponsibly. Recycling has proven difficult. The biggest problem is the labor-intensive sorting of plastic waste into its various types for reprocessing; the costs far exceed the value of the recycled plastic. The plastic foam polystyrene, for example, is rarely recycled because it is just not cost effective. <br /><br />We could just wait on Mother Nature for a solution. Two types of nylon eating bacteria were found in 1975, raising the hope that other bacteria will evolve the ability to consume other synthetic plastics. But Mother Nature is slow and plastic is piling up in the ocean by the day, particularly in the North Pacific Gyre, or the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or the "Pacific Trash Vortex" as it is sometimes known. <br /><br />So, what is the solution to plastic in the ocean? Simple answer: Don’t use petroleum-based plastic. <br /><br />Human behavior is remarkably flexible when it comes to finding alternatives to plastic. Recently, new biodegradable plastic substitutes have come on the scene. Many of the items removed from the world’s beaches have reusable or non-plastic, biodegradable and compostable substitutes such as those made from plant-based bagasse, the fibrous residue remaining after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed to extract their juice. Seek them out when you need a container, they go by the names of EcoTainer, NatureWorks and Worldcentric and can be easily found online. Encourage local leaders and businesspeople to follow China, India, Ireland and dozens of U.S. cities, by banning certain disposable plastic items and taxing others. Reusable bottles, utensils and shopping bags are a simple solution. Wax paper is a good choice for many household and lunchbox needs. Avoid plastic "to go" containers. See if you can make it through a single day without using any disposable plastic. It’s not as hard as you might think. <br /><br />Who knows, if we succeed, maybe one day our beaches will be full of real, old-fashioned marine debris. The kind the original beachcombers used to collect: driftwood, kelp, seashells and the occasional message in a bottle—a glass bottle, of course. -<br /><br />Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is a Research Associate at California Academy of Sciences.OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-40753864037022914172009-04-22T15:11:00.000-07:002009-05-04T15:14:11.373-07:00Shark Break!<embed src="http://www.sharkbreak.com/widgets/mini-sharkbreak-widget-13.swf" width="360" height="490" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><a href="http://www.sharkbreak.com/redirect-widgets.php" target="_blank">Click here to get more mini-SharkBreak widgets</a> - <a href="http://www.sharkbreak.com/redirect-sharkbreak.php" target="_blank">www.SharkBreak.com</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-604635280166041637.post-36396818767668607072009-04-21T08:10:00.000-07:002009-04-21T08:11:16.887-07:00Mission Sea TurtleHere’s your mission should you choose to accept it: hold you breath for a month, eat an entire salad bar, swim a marathon a day for 2 weeks, while figuring out how to get to a place you haven’t been to since you were a baby 30 years ago, without the help of signs, GPS, maps, helpful policemen or Google Earth, then at your destination mate non-stop for a few weeks, lay a few hundred eggs at night in a hole you dug with your back feet without looking, now swim back to where you came from to eat some more salad bars and get ready to do it again. Each year. For the rest of your life. Which is long.<br /><br />I forgot to mention that all along the way you need to be sure that the food you eat isn’t made of plastic that just looks like food (which can mess you up real bad), you should avoid getting run over by a speeding boat (which can crack your shell), you better not get caught in a net or on a hook (which are everywhere these days), and last but not least you have to hope and pray you’re not eaten as turtle soup (sounds gross, but some people like it A LOT).<br /><br />Did I mention that you are a sea turtle (and your brain is the size of a pea)? Impressed? You should be. Sea turtles are AMAZING animals!<br /><br />Read More <a href="http://blog.conservation.org/2009/04/mission-sea-turtle/">HERE</a>OCEANREVOLUTION.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811907603555971776noreply@blogger.com0