From New Orleans after Katrina to a Daring San Francisco Bay Rescue, up-from-below Leadership Took Center Stage In the book turned Disney action movie “The Finest Hours,” out Jan. 29, Chris Pine plays real-life Coast Guard hero Bernie Webber. In February 1952 Webber and his crew of three saved 32 of 33 sailors trapped on […]
Victory after Victory – Pirate Fishing Bill becomes Law
The day before President Obama rejected the terrible idea of pumping oil tar sands through the Keystone Pipeline he signed into law a bill to protect our ocean from illegal, unregulated and unreported (pirate) fishing. Blue Frontier is particularly thrilled not only because it’s the right thing for our ocean (as is getting off of […]
Writers for the Sea Is the Next Wave in Literature
Writers for the Sea is a professional organization for authors writing about the sea and committed to increased understanding and conservation of the greater part of our blue planet.
Alien Invaders Support Arctic Drilling
Now that NASA has identified our “earth like” planet, what you call Kepler 452b and we call what sounds to you like an alligator puking, I guess we no longer need to pretend that we’re just oil company CEOs working to make you energy independent of your puny sun and flaccid winds. We’ve been doing […]
Go to the beach: We protect the things we love, and our oceans are in dire need of help
Restoring a healthy ocean is possible, if we have the political will to grow the solutions faster than the problems When I was 15 my mother took my sister and me to Key West, Florida, for my sister’s 18th birthday. Crossing the two- lane overseas highway I looked out at the clear blue, turquoise and […]