By The Blue Frontier Campaign America is and always has been an Oceanic society. From the Bering Sea Land-bridge to the Jamestown Settlement to the processing lines of Ellis Island we have been a tempest tossed people, a saltwater people, a coastal people. We have lived well on the abundance of our seas and coastlines […]
A Blue Movement is Spawned
July 11-13th, 2004 By David Helvarg “They call themselves seaweed rebels, their logo an upraised fistful of the stuff that almost militantly declares the oceans an issue that the United States can no longer handle in half measures.” So reads the opening paragraph from one of a series of articles in the Naples (Florida) Daily […]
Blue Frontier President Receives Coastal Living 2005 Leadership Award
January 3rd, 2005 By Coastal Living Blue Frontier Campaign announced today that it had received the prestigious 2005 Coastal Living Award for Leadership. Each year Coastal Living Magazine honors a select group of people and organizations who have contributed to protection of the shore. The awards recognize achievements in the areas of Sea and Shore […]
Commentary — LA Times — Sponge Bob and Friends: Splendor in the Kelp
By David Helvarg Under the waves, the teeming ocean is one kinky place. David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign, editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide (Island Press, 2005) and author of “Blue Frontier — Saving America’s Living Seas” (Sierra Club Books, 2005) January 26, 2005 James Dobson of Focus on […]
Blues Find Harmony at the Aquarium
April 8th, 2005 By David Helvarg On Friday, April 8th the Blue Frontier Campaign, with the support of the Living Oceans Foundation, Clean Ocean Action, the Baltimore Aquarium, Common Counsel, Coast Alliance and others held its first regional Blue Vision Conference in Baltimore. It drew some 50 people from 30 seaweed groups active in the […]