Aside from the continuation of our dependence on fossil fuel, the “Macondo Deepwater Horizon” blowout was probably the worst fossil-fueled environmental disaster ever.
Earth Day 2026
Taking a day to celebrate those who have dedicated their lives to supporting our blue planet.
Dolphin Awareness Month | A Different Way of Knowing
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that in 1953. Most people read it as a philosophical puzzle. For most of the twentieth century, we treated it as one. The question we asked about…
Celebrating National Woman’s History Month
Belva Ann Lockwood, the first woman to be nominated for President in 1884 by the “Equal Rights Party.” If women had the right to vote in 1884, she may well have been our Nation’s first woman president. But Women’s right…
Bright News from the Blue | What We Choose to Pay Attention to
Pages from the Ocean’s Story Much of what we know about the ocean begins with a signal. A whale’s call moving through dark water. A life form thriving where sunlight never reaches. A legal protection that holds — because people…
Bright News from the Blue | Continuity Beneath the Surface
Welcome back to Bright News from the Blue. In times of fracture—when change outpaces adaptation—our attention returns to systems that have long navigated complexity without collapse. Across deep time, the ocean endures through evolutionary intelligence, shaped by coexistence and continuity rather than extraction and…
Don’t say “Fire.”
The Department of Energy wants to excise terms like “climate change,” “green,” “clean/dirty energy,” “emissions,” “carbon/CO2 footprint,” and “decarbonization,” from their internal and external communications.
What’s next?
We have not yet seen how the current administration has synthesized any of the EIS comments we submitted this year, but given their proclivity to pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with, my suspicions are that they will ignore all public input and just see what we’ll do about it.
This is really not the best time to pull long-planned power generation projects offline. It is bound to kick the US back into the “Dark Ages.