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Fixing the Problem
- 1. Make Your Own Online Petition For Free!!
- Best Way to Connect to Congress and Express Your Views about Ocean Issues
- Best Way to Connect to Congress and Express Your Views about Ocean Issues (DEMO)
- Bottom Trawling UN Policy/Regulation
- Coastal Countries Step Up for Sharks
- Coastal States Organization
- Eco-Friendly Fish Choice Guides
- EPA Blog on Environmental Justice
- Geoengineering the Climate (The Royal Society – Science Policy)
- Gigantic Plastic Garbage Patches in the Ocean: How to Help
- How to Write to Congress
- Important Elements to Sustainable Fishing
- List of Social Action Websites
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
- MPAs Marine Protected Areas
- National Ocean Policy 2011
- New Earth Archive
- Ocean Champions
- Open Congress
- Possible End of Overfishing in US Coastal Waters
- Principles for Successful Community Organizing
- Project AWARE
- Saving Sharks – Get Involved!
- Saving Sharks – Get Involved!
- Search for Bills Pending in Congress
- Shark Research Institute
- Sustainability Leadership at US Universities
- Sustainable Fish Finder
- The Billfish Foundation
- Things You Can Do to Help the Ocean
- US Ocean Policy
- We The People Program at the White House!!!
It's My Ocean
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Environmental Ethics – Some History
- Environmental Ethics Overview
- Kids Sue Government under the Public Trust Doctrine
- Pubic Trust Doctrine – NOAA Tutorial
- Public Trust Doctrine from Wikipedia
- Public Trust Doctrine in Coastal Management
- Public Trust Doctrine: Legal Scholarship
- regarding natural ecosystems as capital assets
- White House National Ocean Council Blog
Global Warming
- Acidification Oceanography Journal Special Issue
- Carbon Emission Permit Sale
- Climate Change Tool for Educators – CAMEL
- Climate Change: The Next Generation – Great Blog!
- Climate Data – Recent Records of Sato & Hansen
- Copenhagen Diagnosis- Climate Science
- Coral Reefs – An Interview with Amy Knowlton
- Excellent Teaching Resources on Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation
- Farm Subsidies and Global Warming
- Geoengineering the Climate (The Royal Society – Science Policy)
- GFDL Climate Science Blog
- Global Warming Forcings Other than CO2
- How carbon dioxide melted the world
- How Hard Will It Really Be To Move Away from Fissile Carbon Energy Sources?
- Increasing Subtropical Ocean Deserts
- IPCC Assessment 4 Reports
- Links to the Scientific Literature Regarding Ocean Conservation
- Melting Polar Ice (New York TImes Article)
- NASA Images of Sea Ice Changes in Arctic
- New York TImes Science Pages
- Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidification Has Arrived
- NSF on Climate Change
- Ocean Acidification
- Real Climate Blog
- Role of the Ocean in Abrupt Climate Change
- Role of the Ocean in Climate Change
- Science Journal Articles on Climate Change
- Sea Level RIse of 70 feet with a 2 C Warming
- Senator Kerry: On Eve of Rio+20, An Honest Assessment of Climate Change Challenge
- Skeptical Science
- Socio-Economic Cost of Ocean Acidifiction
- State of the Ocean
- State of the Ocean 2011
- Strong US Public Support for CO2 Regulation and Carbon Tax
- The Anthropocene
- Why Global- Warming Skeptics are Wrong
Marine Pollution
- BP Oil Spill – Articles and Blogs from the Journal Nature
- BP Oil Spill – Articles in the Journal Science
- BP Oil Spill – Excellent Google Earth Interactive Map
- BP Oil Spill – Long Term Impacts
- BP Oil Spill – NOAA Updates on the Containment
- BP Oil Spill – Peer Reviews Papers on the Oil Spill
- BP Oil Spill: What eventually happened to all of the oil?
- BP Spill – Long Term Impacts
- Coastal Pollution Overview
- Dead Zones in Coastal Bottom Waters
- Farm Subsidies and Global Warming
- Farm Subsidies Lead to Greater Coastal Pollution
- Global Fertilizer Use
- Global Nitrogen Policy
- Links to the Scientific Literature Regarding Ocean Conservation
- List of fish that are unsafe to eat because of heavy metals
- Mercury in Tuna Sushi
- NYT Article on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
- Oil and Fish Don't Mix
- Oil Pollution History
- Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
- Reactive Nitrogen Pollution
- regarding natural ecosystems as capital assets
- Sewage Treatment Infrastructure Decline
- Toxic Waters
- Whales and Noise Pollution Blog
fishing impacts
- 4 Dirty Little Secrets About Canned Tuna
- Aquacalypse Now
- Bottom Trawling UN Policy/Regulation
- Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning News (NOAA)
- Coastal Countries Step Up for Sharks
- Conservation International – Sustainable Fisheries
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Death at Sea World – Captive Orca Treatment
- Eco-Friendly Fish Choice Guides
- Eco-Friendly SeaFood Restaurant Guide
- Fish Farming Facts
- Fish Oil is Not Eco-Friendly
- Important Elements to Sustainable Fishing
- International Fisheries Management
- Lost Lobster Gear
- Narrated Photo Essay
- New UN Treaty
- New York Time Archive on Commercial Fishing Articles
- Possible End of Overfishing in US Coastal Waters
- Saving Sharks – Get Involved!
- Shark Whisperer
- State of the Ocean
- State of the Ocean 2011
- The Most Important Fish In the World
- US Ocean Policy Overview
Coral Reef Destruction
Sustainable Future
- 1. Make Your Own Online Petition For Free!!
- American Public Media's Sustainability Page
- Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
- Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (BLOG)
- Back to the Start (Cold Play / Willy Nelson Music Video)
- Biodiversity and Sustainability – A Big-Big Problem Headed in the Wrong Direction
- Building a Green Economy by Paul Krugman
- Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning News (NOAA)
- Conservation International – Sustainable Fisheries
- Conservation Psychology
- Cornell moves beyond coal with opening of new power plant
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecosystem Services
- Encyclopedia of the Earth
- Geoengineering the Climate (The Royal Society – Science Policy)
- How Fast Are We Consuming the Earth?
- How Have Ecosystems Changed?
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
- Millennium Assessment Reports
- National Geographic: Why Oceans Matter
- New Earth Archive
- Pew Oceans Commission
- Really Good Green News Source
- Senator Kerry: On Eve of Rio+20, An Honest Assessment of Climate Change Challenge
- State of the Ocean
- State of the Ocean 2011
- Sustainability Leadership at US Universities
- Sustainable Fish Finder
- TED Conference Video on Sustainability
- Tragedy of the Commons: Science Magazine Archive
- UN 3rd Global Biodiversity Report
- UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report 2007 (PDF)
- UN Sustainable Development Documents
- UNEP Green Economy Blue Ocean
- US Ocean Policy Overview
- Visions of a Sustainable Future
- White House National Ocean Council Blog
- World Resources Institute
Generally Positive News
- Good news on preventing bottom trawling
- National Ocean Policy 2011
- NOAA's "Thank You Ocean" Program
- Obama Administration's Oceans Policy Plan
- Obama Administration's Oceans Policy Plan in the News
- Ocean Hope at Mission Blue
- President Bush Declares Vast Region on the Tropical Pacific A Marine Conservation Area
- President Obama's Executive Order Regarding a New Ocean Policy
- UN Biodiversity Summit 2010 Makes Progress
Beauty
- Beautiful Seabirds!!!
- Beautiful Videos from the European Space Agency (ESA)
- Census of Marine Life Photos
- Deep Sea Volcanic Eruption
- Dolphin Intelligence
- Drew Harvell's Friday Harbor Blog
- Movie Trailer for "Oceans"
- National Geographic Oceans Website
- National Geographic Photo Contest
- Nice El Nino Site
- NOAA Mission Blog
- NOAA Ocean Data Viewer – Very Cool!
- Octopus' Use of "Tools"
- Pretty Cool Sea Creature Pics
- Pristine Cuban Coral Reefs
- Shark Whisperer
- Sharks : More links to information than you can imagine
- Smithsonian Museum's Oceans Pages
- The Secret Life of Plankton
Bottom-Up Action Archive
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Project AWARE: An Ocean Conservation Organization Making a Difference
Julie Szabo asked if I would post a short article on my blog to let folks know about Project Aware – an ocean conservation group devoted to organizing divers to help clean…
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“If we want a world that works, we’re going to have to raise our voices”
Bill McKibben has an interesting article HERE where he writes about the failed politics of US Climate Change Legislation. In so many words he says that politician have compromised far too much…
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Jacques Cousteau’s 100th Birthday
I was surfing my usual blogs this morning and discovered that Jacques Cousteau was born 100 years ago today. The blog also included this video clip whose message I think is more…
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James Hansen’s New Book: Storms of My Grandchildren
James Hansen has a new book out called Storms of My Children that I recommend to everyone.
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Protesters and Whalers Collide in Antarctica
Pretty dramatic news footage of whale protester boat that was hit by a Japanese whaling vessel. For additional information: click here Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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Cornell University Climate Action Plan
Here is a movie that was created by Cornell University Freshman Elizabeth Henry (Arts and Sciences 2013). The short clip explains Cornell’s plan to reach a carbon neutral status by 2050. For…