Blue Frontier’s Writers for the Sea Book Club for ‘Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life’ by Diane Cardwell. The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach, NY. Natasha Benjamin and Diane Cardwell discuss our relationship to the ocean, learning to surf, and the […]
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Blue New Deal Launched
July 13, 2020 – The Center for the Blue Economy and Blue Frontier just issued a unique, comprehensive, Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP)—the Blue New Deal—offering a cure for the battered post-pandemic economy and solutions for the climate emergency. Many of these recommendations appear in the new Democratic climate plan, however, OCAP adds additional and practical solution-oriented […]
Some thoughts on the Crisis and the Ocean
By David HelvargExecutive DirectorBlue Frontier Between the sobering reality of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over 100,000 Americans and put our economy in a tailspin, an expected above-average hurricane and wildfire seasons linked to the ongoing climate emergency and other societal fractures such as racism and other forms of exclusion two responses have become […]