Dive in with Blue Frontier’s Executive Director David Helvarg to learn why he founded the organization. For two decades Blue Frontier has worked to bring the economic, environmental, recreational, and spiritual benefits of healthy and abundant seas to the public. We’ve done this through books, articles, videos and media trainings, a decade of Ocean Awards, […]
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Op-Ed: California law needs to catch up to sea level rise
Last year, California’s massive wildfires were impossible to ignore. Four million acres burned. People and animals died, homes were lost, power faltered for days at a time, air quality deteriorated, the sky over San Francisco turned orange. And yet as massive a challenge as wildfire presents — especially as we face another drought year — […]
Op-Ed: California law needs to catch up to sea level rise
Last year, California’s massive wildfires were impossible to ignore. Four million acres burned. People and animals died, homes were lost, power faltered for days at a time, air quality deteriorated, the sky over San Francisco turned orange. And yet as massive a challenge as wildfire presents — especially as we face another drought year — […]
Charting a Sustainable Course for the Blue Economy
Ocean industries are often even more polluting than their terrestrial counterparts. By David Helvarg and Jason Scorse In 2008 the United Nations designated June 8 as World Oceans Day, “a day for humanity to celebrate the ocean.” Since then, it’s had about as much to do with the ecological economic and human rights disasters affecting our seas as […]
Biden’s climate plan can work if it’s sea to shining sea
Last week President Biden made a firm commitment to transition America from polluting fossil energy to clean renewable power. We and other coastal residents are heartened by his “whole government” approach to tackling the climate crisis, especially his focus on the positive employment impacts of making smart climate investments. However, we get concerned when the president identifies a million jobs linked […]