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 […]
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 […]
Big Oil’s March to the Sea
July/August 2005 By David Helvarg Sierra Magazine Flush with victory after a one-vote win in the Senate that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, the fossil-fuel industry and its friends in Congress are already working to carve up the coasts. House Resources Committee chair Dick Pombo (R-Calif.) and Senator Lamar Alexander […]
Farming’s New Wave — Popular Mechanics Feature
August 2005 By David Helvarg Thanks to high-tech cages and a better understanding of fish biology, aquaculture is moving offshore and into the open ocean. Peering through the taut weave of polymer netting, a diver could easily believe the sea holds a limitless supply of fish. Inside the submerged cage, tens of thousands of sleek […]