Ten years ago, I wrote a book called The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea. Back then, I suggested that California, with almost forty million people and the world’s fifth largest economy, was proof that you could grow a progressive society while protecting your coast and ocean—and that the two are intrinsically linked. The San […]
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How We Put the Blue in the Green New Deal
The ocean was the hottest ever recorded last year according to a report from a team of international scientists. Half the world’s oceans may experience marine heat waves by September according to NOAA. July 4 was the hottest day in our blue planet’s recorded history. Those findings are alarming but not surprising given that the […]
An Ocean Film Festival for an Ocean in Trouble
Not surprisingly San Francisco Bay is home to the largest ocean film festival in the world, one that mixes wonder and warning. But the warnings are growing louder. There’s a documentary on deep sea mining slated for the Pacific with Jason Momoa, another on plastic pollution narrated by actor Tim Robbin, also a film on […]
Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll
The black-and-white motion-triggered video looks like an outtake from a cheap horror movie: A handful of rats circle a smooth, platter-sized mound of sand. Suddenly a sea turtle hatchling appears, digging out of the nest. A rat grabs it by its head and quickly drags it off-camera. A second hatchling is snatched by another rat, […]
Get Ready for the Post-Legislative Phase of the Climate Battle
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act came decades too late to stop climate change impacts this century. What now? In October, Nigeria, with over 600 dead and close to 1.5 million displaced, joined a growing list of nations, including Pakistan, Thailand, and Australia, that have recently experienced unprecedented flooding linked to climate change. Floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves, […]