Ocean Awareness

It's our intention on this page to help bring attention and awareness to the issues regarding the world's oceans, the marine creatures, and the people who subsist off them. We will hopefully make this page into an educational resource base filled with not only facts, but ideas and practical solutions on how we can all help to work towards a more positive future.

A few ocean-oriented environmental/conservation organizations we support
What you can do to help?
What kind of fish should I eat?
Carbon Offsetting

SOME OF THE BIG OCEAN ISSUES:

*PLASTIC! Our friend Cara's Blog outlines the issue well

*Shark-Finning. So much to say about this issue. Start here at this link for a good overview.

INSPIRATION:

Paul Hawken's 2009 commencement speech at the University of Portland

HUMOR:

What kid's say about the ocean

" We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich."
--Paul Hawken