I snuck out last week and headed off to Washington DC. There is no pending legislation, but we were offered support from “DCO2” – Don’t Cage Our Ocean – who are working on legislation against industrial fin-fish farming. This is…
Last week I participated in a North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) Vessel Strike risk reduction workshop. This issue is really big, because the population of these iconic whales has been falling precipitously in the past few years due to…
After being shredded by the last administration, the National Environmental Policy Act is being put back together again – sort-of….
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…
Regardless of how close or distant, we are all lucky that Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg have been in our lives. I was so fortunate to have intersected their circles by way of a couple of orbits – one through Patricia’s…
It is June 8 – World Ocean Day, we’ve circled the sun yet another time. and the Ocean remains…
In my perfect world, every day would be Earth Day! But if the world was perfect, OCR would not be doing the work we do – trying to make our collective habitat better for all of us that live in…
When talking about de-carbonizing our future, “Responsible Use of Energy” should be in the first paragraph – before we whittle away at what constitutes ‘responsible’ ways of generating that energy.
It was nice seeing the Capitol Building free of banners, beards, and bombs – although January 6 did leave a lot of scars…
While the trumpets and banner-waving around the IRA (“Build Back Better Lite”) highlights all sorts of climate actions and infrastructure support for clean energy systems, buried in the bowels of the bill are a few short clauses that entirely destroy the climate effectiveness of the effort…