

Blue Beat, Arctic Heat, Worlds Collide & Changing Tide September 20, 2007 By David Helvarg The Blue Beat Rocks On I moderated a marine panel at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference at Stanford University in early September. Major thematic tracks during the four-day meeting included climate, environmental health, and the ocean (the…

Dirty Water, Bodysurf, Killer Squid, and Other Summer Delights August 21, 2007 By David Helvarg LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER I just spent a day at Lifeguard Tower Two in Ocean Beach, San Diego, a place where I once lost a decade, lulled into euphoric distraction by the sun-dappled waves and bracing water. This time the…

Ocean Week, Slime Eels, Mermaids and a Cormorant June 25, 2007 By David Helvarg OCEAN WEEK BUT GETTING STRONGER In 2004, when we held our last Blue Vision Conference, the Pew Ocean Commission had published its report and the US Commission on Ocean Policy was about to publish theirs. There was a lot of speculation…

I WISH THEY ALL COULD BE CALIFORNIA May 10, 2007 By David Helvarg I WISH THEY ALL COULD BE CALIFORNIA It’s not just that I’m returning to California to set up Blue Frontier’s West Coast Office this summer. California (state marine fish — the garibaldi) really is beginning to embarrass other coastal states and federal…

An Occasional Ramble by the Sea Including Loss, Adventure, bad news and blue news April 3, 2007 By David Helvarg Who hears the fishes when they Cry? That’s what poet Henry David Thoreau wondered. My answer would be Ransom Myers who died of brain cancer on March 27 at the age of 54. One of…
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