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Reading In Depth and Passing On Gas Feb. 1st 2005 By David Helvarg Blue Frontier Campaign has finished the final copy-edit on the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide 2005-2006 which will be out with Island Press this June. Their press copy pretty well states what we believe: A new environmental movement is emerging to help […]

Bush’s Happy Oceans January 4th, 2005 By David Helvarg The horrific disaster from the Asian Tsunamis reflects the power of nature and the sea that we, as terrestrial beings on a water planet must endure. But it also highlights the dangers posed by overbuilt coastlines and lack of science-based warning systems that led Admiral James […]

Post Election Blues November 25th 2004 By David Helvarg Even though ocean conservation is a bipartisan issue, the re-election of President Bush and consolidation of Republican one-party control over the House and Senate will certainly make it more difficult for Blue activists to win passage of a comprehensive Ocean Act in the next four years. […]

A Bit Of Reef Relief July, 18th 2004 By David Helvarg Shortly after the Blue Vision Conference in July I went down to Florida for a board meeting of Reef Relief, during their annual Reef Awareness Week in Key West. On the way south for four days of above and below water meetings (with hawksbill […]

An Occasional Ramble By The Sea June 22nd, 2004 By David Helvarg After going through security at the Department of Commerce I buy a $25 dollar ticket and join the long line of some 1,000 people wending their way through one of the building’s high ceilinged marble and granite galleries. It’s June 16, 2004, another […]