The Blue Beat

April 8th, 2005 By David Helvarg On Friday, April 8th the Blue Frontier Campaign, with the support of the Living Oceans Foundation, Clean Ocean Action, the Baltimore Aquarium, Common Counsel, Coast Alliance and others held its first regional Blue Vision Conference in Baltimore. It drew some 50 people from 30 seaweed groups active in the […]

April 8th, 2005 By David Helvarg On Friday, April 8th the Blue Frontier Campaign, with the support of the Living Oceans Foundation, Clean Ocean Action, the Baltimore Aquarium, Common Counsel, Coast Alliance and others held its first regional Blue Vision Conference in Baltimore. It drew some 50 people from 30 seaweed groups active in the […]

July/August 2005 By David Helvarg Sierra Magazine Flush with victory after a one-vote win in the Senate that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, the fossil-fuel industry and its friends in Congress are already working to carve up the coasts. House Resources Committee chair Dick Pombo (R-Calif.) and Senator Lamar Alexander […]

August 2005 By David Helvarg Thanks to high-tech cages and a better understanding of fish biology, aquaculture is moving offshore and into the open ocean. Peering through the taut weave of polymer netting, a diver could easily believe the sea holds a limitless supply of fish. Inside the submerged cage, tens of thousands of sleek […]

September 9, 2005 By David Helvarg “There’s a 9-11 waiting to happen in the oceans if we let it,” Admiral James Watkins (Ret.), chair of the Bush-appointed U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy warned two years ago. With Hurricane Katrina we just let it happen. A huge natural disaster was hugely magnified by greed, folly and […]