Ocean Plastics: Time for A New Convention?
…about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world’s oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River,...
…about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world’s oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River,...
In explaining the economic way of thinking, we start with the problems and opportunities of scarcity. For every person, family, and society, life confronts us with both problems to be solved and wonders to...
“Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says” Has a groundbreaking analysis “from hundreds of sources” of the world’s oceans unearthed signs of human-caused global catastrophe, as this New York Times story claims? Or is this just...
What if giant offshore oil platforms created more long-term value as marine habitats than from pumping oil from deep under the sea? Consider the case of oil platforms off the coast of California. A...
National Geographic features a short video on “The World’s Largest Open-Ocean Fish Farm”: Open Blue’s operations off the coast of Panama (May, 2014): A five minute CNN 2012 segment on Open Blue below (from...
Oceans are a lot like land, just wetter. Wet is good for life, and the world’s oceans covering 70% of the planet can be a source of vast new wealth or conflicts. A May,...
Civilization began as societies learned to plant and raise grain, fruit, and vegetables in farms, orchards, and gardens rather than wander the countryside gathering them, and learned to raise and herd cattle rather than...
The House of Representatives and Executive Branch disagree on the federal role for marine natural resource policies. Doc Hastings Chairs the House Committee on Natural Resources and lists the new bureaucratic layers established by...
But it is important that the conservation community and the public learn to think skeptically about messages of a forthcoming apocalypse as well as about messages of “everything is wonderful.” — Peter Karelva, Nature...
Researching marine natural resource policies for an Economic Thinking workshop in Huntsville, I surfed into Alabama’s entrepreneurial artificial reef program. Alabama’s limited coastline is listed as just 53 miles, except on the Encyclopedia of...