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Last call at the oasis: or are we screwed?
I don’t normally go in for depressing documentaries. But when the local art house is showing a documentary on water around the world (“Last Call at the Oasis“) followed by a panel discussion with some of my friends and board members at Heal the Bay, I will make an exception.
Moving stories from Las Vegas, Midland Texas, Australia, Israel and right here in California painted a pretty grim picture…
Survey for marine debris draws connection with Japan
Survey for #MarineDebris draws connection with Japan
Earlier this week, as the mercury hit 90 degrees by the beach, I headed out to Carbon Beach with another Heal the Bay staffer to conduct a marine debris survey – part of a west-coast wide effort by NOAA to monitor for debris from the devastating Japanese tsunami of March 11, 2011 . Spoiler alert: I didn’t find any soccer balls with Japanese script. But I did find an interesting connection to…
Goodbye Santa Monica Bay: Hello San Francisco Bay
Goodbye Santa Monica Bay: Hello San Francisco Bay
Last week, I was driving along PCH listening to Katy Perry sing about plastic bags floating in the wind and wondering whether that song was about to become history with the stroke of Gov. Brown’s pen. I looked right at the ocean just before Temescal Canyon in Pacific Palisades, and there a few yards out two dolphins enjoyed the waves in the light of the early morning. It’s a sight I will…
My Fair Trade journey
Last year I joined a remarkable group of individuals working to transform the Fair Trade movement to benefit more of the world’s working poor. I’m on a steep learning curve and will be sharing some of the successes, challenges and my learnings at Fair Trade USA.
In six months I have spent time in Côte D’Ivoire visiting cocoa farmers with leading chocolatiers. Bumped up rocky tracks in Costa Rica…