One of the important ideas in recovering from this dramatic marine debris program is “lifecycle management” or “cradle to cradle” (formerly -“to grave”). Sounding like a Sante-Fe inspired new age health plan, this is actually a very engineering oriented look at managing out use of materials. The intellectual premise is […]
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No Island
One of the toughest parts of conservation, business, family life or any human endeavor seems to be facing reality. We all spend alot of time looking around the issues, skimming the surface and fighting on the margins. Staring down the problem in its unvarnished truth is as tough as it […]
Read MoreNuke it…well sort of…
As hard as we work on observation, research and education….at some point we need to get to solutions. Dr. Marcus Eriksen and I recently went up to Montreal Canada to look at a promising new solution. Something called a Plasma Resource Recovery System – or PRRS promises exciting potential as […]
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Today is important. It is the 100th anniversary of a man, and frankly, an era that has driven so much change in our relationship with the sea. Born in the south of France on June 11, 1910 Jacques Cousteau would have been 100 today. He lived close enough to that […]
Read MoreMixing Art and Science
That’s it, right there, the first time I saw the ocean- only 14 years old… We recently had a chance to sit down to eat, talk and learn with a man that has been an inspiration to many of us in ocean conservation- and a one that thinks very differently […]
Read MoreReflections of a three time crosser
Stephen Amato served as crew for almost nine months on Sea Dragon. A bit like the young man in Jack London’s Sea Wolf, he went to sea and came home a changed man. Have a look at this video…
Read MoreDifferent thinking
This week we had several great examples of the value…perhaps even necessity of different thinking. We don’t just mean different ideas, but a completely different set of skills, and perspective.. and different approach to the same problem. First Portia and I were fortunate enough to sit down with the world’s […]
Read MoreMonday, 19 April 2010 Why Town to Town, why not national?
Through the course of my research I have discovered that many countries around the world including France, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Somalia, Germany, Belgium, Bhutan, India, Sweden, Malta and Japan, plus many more have banned free plastic bags, some have imposed an outright ban […]
Read MoreMonday, 19 April 2010 Roving blog – ever present reminder
Helping a friend launch his boat today I found myself afloat once again surrounded by plastic evidence. A plastic bottle pieces of tape and plastic particulate. Remembering that unless someone does something that bottle could be there for up to an estimated 1,000 years I plucked it out of the […]
Read MoreMonday the 19th April 2010 First step towards Banning the Bag Converting words into action.
Today is the day that I start in earnest to Ban the Bag in my own home town of Lymington, from here other awareness projects and campaigns will sprout. In Lymington we are very much in touch with nature, with the sea, marshes and beaches to the south and a […]
Read MorePlanning- always Planning
We know the glamorous, intense, emotional parts of expedition work. We are at sea, heading out over the horizon with a big rolling swell and steady breeze off the port quarter. Science team is working hard, hauling in nets, readying dive gear, small boats over the side, crew calls […]
Read MoreThe Reality of Exploration and King Tut
The part we remember about exploration stories is the sudden glory of discovery- typically beyond what the determined travelers even imagined. Howard Carter finding the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 is a great example. Today the Sea Dragon crew filed a brief note on the Sat Phone more typical of […]
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