• Climate Change

Climate Change Matters: Why I’m Speaking Out for our Earth’s Sake

By Arjun Marwaha Climate change is real. Fires have ravaged many communities in my home state of California and unusually powerful storms have flooded other parts of the United States. More volatile climate events cannot be disputed. But, what ultimately drove me, a teenager, to channel this into a book? It is a little more […]

• Ocean

Georges Bank Should Not Become Exxon’s Bank

• coastal tourism
• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• endangered species
• fishermen
• Massachusetts
• North Atlantic Right Whale
• ocean
• oil and gas drilling

By Senator Edward J. Markey (D- MA) This week, a court ruling forced the Trump Administration to put its plan to massively expand offshore drilling for oil and gas on hold. The Trump Interior Department’s record is one of blatant disregard for the ocean’s living marine resources and the people and coastal economies that depend […]

• People

Special Earth Week Bonus EXCLUSIVE Interview with Gary Knell, Chairman of National Geographic Partners

• climate change
• Disney
• Free Solo
• National Geographic
• Sea of Shadows
• The Hot Zone

It has been a huge year for National Geographic, including winning an Oscar for “Free Solo” as Best Documentary film and merging forces with Disney.  We caught up with Gary to talk about all that, plus his vision for National Geographic’s next phase. ODP:   At a time when content is limitless, what has kept National […]

• Land

Earth Day Starts in Your Own Back Yard

• conservation
• Georgia
• St. Simon's Land Trust

By Raleigh Kitchen, Membership and Outreach Manager, St. Simons Land Trust Earth Day is usually associated with big demonstrations, laudable corporate commitments and remarks by national figures encouraging us to keep persevering in the fight for our planet. Those are all important actions, but we can’t forget that the most impactful things we can do […]

• Green Finance

Making the Green New Deal Real

• carbon tax
• climate change
• Green New Deal
• socialism

By Monica Medina The hearing this week before the House Reform and Oversight Committee on the national security implications of climate change was an eye-opener.  The goal of the hearing was to be non-partisan, with one Republican and one Democrat witness – both former Senators and members of the National Security team.  But the Republicans […]

• Ocean

The Blue New Deal  

• Blue Economy
• Navy
• New Deal
• ocean
• ocean economy
• Ocean Plastic
• research

I just heard from a longtime friend on the Hill that “soon” Congress will introduce a “Blue New Deal” in both chambers with support from the President and all ocean agencies. Congress and the Administration are joining forces to create a strategic, cost-loaded plan that will address ocean science and technology needs nationwide, bringing together federal agencies with their partners in academia, industry, state and local government, and NGOs to work on key common goals.