Rubber Ducks Measure Ocean Currents
Who knew that “tens of millions” of rubber ducks race rivers for charity. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, in a KUOW radio interview, discusses the popular charity races where people can bet on (or “adopt”) a rubber duck for...
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Should Debaters Privatize the Oceans?
Rognvaldur Hannesson’s Privatization of the Oceans is a fascinating story of the development of property rights in ocean fisheries… Hannesson sets the tone with an interesting comparison between the development of property rights in...
Maybe the Most Valuable Ocean Resource
The most valuable marine natural resource in the world’s oceans may be what isn’t there rather than what is. What isn’t there is state regulation. Just offshore, beyond the reach of state and federal...
Sea Food Map for All the Ocean’s Fish and Mammals
Plants and bugs are food for land animals and birds. Out in the world’s oceans, plankton are the common food for everything up the ocean food chain. A map of the world’s ocean plankton...
The Wild World of Open Ocean Farmed Fish
Jay Fidell, writing in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, argues against proposed state legislation that would block open-ocean fish farms. (State must save, not end, open-ocean fish farming, Feb. 6, 2011) Fidell notes: One-third of ocean...
Transportation Policy Reform
Transportation policies are local, state, federal. The coming year’s NCFCA topic calls for reforming federal transportation policies: Resolved: The United States Federal Government (USFG) should significantly reform its domestic transportation policy implemented by the...
Federal Water Resources: Farming the Deep Blue Sea
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...
Oyster Reefs Clean Water and Protect Coastal Resources
BigThink features a video by Mark Tercek of The Nature Conservancy, titled Green Infrastructure Outperforms Gray. I thought it might be about bicycle paths vs. roads or forests vs. gravel pits. Instead, the topic...
Robots & Rubber Ducks Explore Offshore Waters
Liquid Robots to Measure the Seas “If it matters, measure it” argues The Fraser Institute, a think tank in Vancouver, BC. Good public policy requires good data and constant measurement. Measuring water resources matters,...
More Water for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
However ongoing Middle East and North Africa conflicts are resolved, most families in the Middle East and North Africa will still be living in or next to deserts. Water scarcity and conflicts within and...