Oregon, Oil and Acid Indigestion November 14, 2005 By David Helvarg Oregon’s Finest “In Sea change, new homes swamp Oregon’s coast,” read the front page headline of the Oct 23rd Oregonian, the state’s largest paper. That Sunday was also the last day of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition’s (http://oregonshores.org) annual conference in Newport, Oregon, a […]
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An Occasional Ramble by the Sea October 17, 2005 By David Helvarg With the coastal catastrophe that was/is the 2005 Hurricane Season (and more likely to come) I’ve gotten behind on some other news, developments and fishy rumors worth noting. They didn’t bleach themselves. Warm water and summer long doldrums have turned parts of the […]
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Traveling in the Wake of Disaster September. 29, 2005 By David Helvarg The smell of New Orleans is mostly not of dead bodies but of a dead city that’s lost both its color (literally – its look sepia toned – all mud brown, russet and gray) and its people –a million environmental refugees from the […]
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An Unmitigated Disaster September 9, 2005 By David Helvarg “There’s a 9-11 waiting to happen in the oceans if we let it,” Admiral James Watkins (Ret.), chair of the Bush-appointed U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy warned two years ago. With Hurricane Katrina we just let it happen. A huge natural disaster was hugely magnified by […]
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Blue Frontier Brings Aloha Spirit (and a Blue Movement Guide) to SF Waterfront August 3, 2005 By David Helvarg I knew when I saw the stingray winging its way through the shallows behind San Francisco’s Bay View Boat Club that we were going to have a whale of a party. A few days earlier I’d […]