April 15th, 2013 
Justin Manger 
From the Ocean Conservation Society, using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), this infographic is full of staggering and somewhat depressing facts like fishing line lasts up to 600 years before it biodegrades. We’ve posted about this before but it is worth remembering. This is especially true as we run around with hectic schedules that leave [...]
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Tags: Environment, Water Conservation 
No Comments » March 23rd, 2013 Eric Wilson 
In a sign that security may best be achieved not through militarization, but rather ensuring access to the basic needs for life (food, water, shelter), defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently received a patent for a revolutionary desalination process. The numbers are pretty familiar to all by now, but they bear repeating. Some 71% of the [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, News, Oceans Tags: Desalination, Water, Water Resources No Comments » January 7th, 2013 Sean Connell A dock that washed up along a remote stretch of the Pacific coast in Olympic National Park in December is the most recent herald of one of the most important environmental issues of 2013 facing the Pacific U.S. states and Canada’s province of British Columbia. The tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011 [...]
Posted in Japan, Local Energy/Food, Oceans, Sustainability Tags: Aquaculture, Environment, Food, Fukushima, Hawaii, Invasive Species, NOAA, Oregon, Sean Connell, Tsunami, Washington State No Comments » January 5th, 2013 Justin Manger 
After finally getting to a point where I feel settled into my new apartment, I spent an hour this afternoon surfing the 10 or so digital TV channels I and everyone else who lives in Japan gets for free. On NHK there was a program titled クジラ対対シャチ Killer Whales vs. Whales, showing incredible video of a [...]
December 28th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
The devastation wrought by hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters is mindblowing. To wreak the havoc that the these acts of nature unleash on the earth requires an immense amount of energy. Just how much? More than humankind can generate. Here are a few earth shattering facts from PBS’s Nova series, which highlighted hurricanes [...]
December 10th, 2012 Sean Connell Stunning recent pictures of the Elwha River valley on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where the world’s largest dam removal project is currently under way, show the beginnings of nature’s reclamation of a landscape altered vastly a century ago to power industrialization. The Elwha’s transformation, unthinkable two decades ago, in some ways mirrors that of public perceptions in the [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Local Energy/Food, Oceans, Policy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Environment, Salmon, Sean Connell, Washington State No Comments » November 16th, 2012 Justin Manger When it comes to fresh water “reserves,” there is no competing with Greenland. You can drink some of its bottled water from the ice sheet for a mere $52 per bottle. Below are the volumes of fresh water, in millions of cubic kilometers: Total worldwide: ~40.0 Antarctic ice sheets: ~24.7 Groundwater: ~12.0 [...]
Posted in Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, News, Oceans Tags: Environment, Water, Water Conservation No Comments » November 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
Books about sustainability, often touch on food. Recently, Megan reviewed Hope’s Edge and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod earlier this year. Drawing in part on the latter, Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, explores the state of salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. In the guise of many other natural histories of [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Conservation, Economics, Eric Wilson, Oceans, Reviews, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, Food No Comments » October 10th, 2012 Eric Wilson Last month marked the first American system to produce electricity via tidal energy. On September 13th, Bangor Hydro Electric Company received power from Ocean Renewable Power Company’s (ORPC’s) Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project. According to the press release from ORPC, “This is the first power from any ocean energy project including offshore wind, wave and [...]
October 3rd, 2012 Justin Manger We all know the massive amounts of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the Macondo deep-water oil spill of 2010. Since then scientists have been working overtime trying to come up with unique ways to remove oil from water. Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University may be on to something. [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Green Products, Justin Manger, Oceans Tags: Conservation, Environment, Oil Consumption, Pollution No Comments »
