Interested in starting a company likely to make millions while creating jobs and providing Americans with high-quality, nutritious, and tasty meals? Step one: take your entrepreneurial energy and investment capital to another country and...
If wetlands and other marine ecosystems are such a good thing, why not pay for them? Most people think attending college is a good thing, so families are willing to pay and students are...
This April 25, 2013 Wall Street Journal article, “Chilly North Sea Comes Back to Life: New Technology Is Set to Liberate Natural Gas That for 25 Years Was Trapped Beneath Sea Floor,” tells the story...
This Michael De Alessi Freeman article is from 1997, but private ocean reef construction continues. Here is an article on a state-mandated Edison artificial reef in California. De Alessi notes that: private ownership of...
Vast amounts of energy are available from falling water, especially from major rivers here in the Pacific Northwest. About the only place in Washington state where water doesn’t have a vertical fall to generate...
Who knew that throwing a banana peel in the river might help remove toxic metals? (Though I advise further research before trying this). From this Learn and Teach post on research into buried pumpkins...
User Fees To Restore and Preserve Scarce Coral Reefs Early affirmative cases call for new federal regulations designed to protect coral reefs. However, federal regulations tend to be a less than ideal approach to...
Interesting post from Sea Grant Washington, though with broken links, on using microbes to clean up pollution in marine ecosystems: Experts in bioremediation, the technology that uses living organisms to break down hazardous materials...
Fresh water is scarce and has alternative uses. Should oysters in Florida to be valued more highly that watering lawns and growing crops in Georgia? This June 2 New York Times article, “A Fight...
