• The Blue Beat

  Our Ocean Crisis — Solutions Are the Easy Part

  June 3, 2015

  Over the last 64 years, the geologic nanosecond in which I’ve lived my life, 90 percent of the largest pelagic (open ocean) fish — including hammerhead sharks, bluefin tuna and black marlin — have been wiped out, along with close to half the world’s tropical reefs. Our global ocean faces a cascading disaster from industrial…

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  The Blue Beat

  California’s New Parks under the Sea

  June 1, 2015

  In 2012 after 13 years of heated debates, name-calling, lawsuits and public hearings, California finally created the network of underwater wilderness reserves mandated by the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA). These reserves, which encompass 16 percent of the waters along California’s spectacular 1,100-mile coastline, include some of the best dive sites on the planet.…

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  The Blue Beat

  Blue Vision Summit 5 Keynote Address

  May 29, 2015

  Opening speeches at the 5th Biennial Blue Vision Summit, hosted by Blue Frontier at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington, D.C.  

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• The Blue Beat

  Op-Ed Lesson of Santa Barbara oil spill: Leave petroleum in the ground

  May 22, 2015

  Memorial Day marks the beginning of high beach season, but there are miles of coastline near Santa Barbara that will be out of commission this weekend thanks to a pipeline oil spill. This is how most offshore oil works: You drill miles off the coast, pump the oil onshore to be processed and pipe it…

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• The Blue Beat

  The Sea Party Rebellion

  May 4, 2015

  Gas is cheap. America is pumping more domestic oil than at any time in the last 30 years. But two newly released science reports have reached disturbing conclusions. One in the journal Science states human activities threaten mass-extinction of marine life in the ocean, the other in the journal Nature tells us that to avoid…

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How To Listen

You can listen to our podcast on a variety of platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Android, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Blubrry, Podchaser, Gaana, the Podcast Index, and Deezer.

Additionally, our podcast is broadcast on several radio stations:

• KGUA Radio – Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast
• KWMR – Point Reyes West Marin Community Radio
• KGNU & KGNU-FM – Denver & Boulder Community Radio Stations
• KKRN – Round Mountain California Listener Supported Radio
• G-TOWN RADIO – Germantown Community Radio, Philadelphia.
• KAKU – The Voice of Maui
• KQUA – Roseburg’s Community Radio Station
• KXCR – Community Radio Florence
• KEPW – Peaceworks Community Radio

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Each episode navigates insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous, it’s a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world!