Oceans - Resources

Links

• Tidepool.org http://www.tidepool. org
  Outrageous resource of current and archived information about the world's troubled waters
• Got Mercury www.gotmercury.org
• Waterkeeper Alliance www.waterkeeper.org
  Protect your water from pollution
• Oceana www.oceana.org
• Reef Check www.reefcheck.org
• Heal The Bay - http://www.healthebay.org/
• National Coalition for Marine Conservation http://www.savethefish.org
• Bluewater Network's mission is to champion innovative solutions and inspire individuals to protect the earth's finite and vulnerable ecosystems. Bluewater Network promotes critical policy changes in government and industry to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and eradicate other root causes of air and water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. http://www.bluewaternetwork.org
• Oceanic Research Foundation http://www.orf.org
• PEW Oceans Commission http://www.pewoceans.org/
• Marine Environmental Research Institute - http://www.meriresearch.org
• Ocean Conservancy http://www.oceanconservancy.org
• The Desert Development Foundation uses seawater-based agricultural and forestry technologies to grow plants that have many uses, including food, oil, and housewares. Check out this multi-purpose solution.
  http://seawaterforests. org
• Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society Water is the only condition of our lives...No other commodity, except the air we breathe, bears the weight of our survival.
• The idea of Nature Network is to relay live imagery and sound from cameras set up in Nature throughout the world.
  "My hope is to bring people closer to Nature without disrupting her"
• www.healthyoceans.org
   

Articles

• Bringing Coastal Dead Zones back to Life http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/howarth.html#Primer
• We Sell Sea Shelves http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9342
• What's Gone Wrong? A 450 page report on America's Oceans - http://oceancommission.gov/documents/prelimreport/
  00_complete_prelim_report. pdf
• America's Wetlands in Danger, from the NRDC http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressReleases/020723.asp
• Ocean Pollution and Cruiseships from EarthJustice http://www.earthjustice.org/factsheets/Cruiseships_041803.pdf
• "Fear In The Fields: How Hazardous Waste Becomes Fertilizer"

Books

• In A Perfect Ocean,
  by D. Pauley and J. Maclean
• Song For The Blue Ocean,
  by Carl Safina
• America's Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change,
  a comprehensive report from PEW Oceans Commission
• The Empty Ocean,
  by Richard Ellis, Island Press
• The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling,
  by Kieran Mulvaney, Island Press
• Oceans 2020: Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability,
  Edited by John G. Field, Gotthilf Hempel, and Colin P. Summerhayes
• The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity,
  by Boyce Thorne-Miller