Category: Economics

Melding BOEM and BSEE together again…

by mstocker • June 1, 2026 • 0 Comments

When Barrack Obama was elected in 2008, and seated in 2009, he appointed Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI). This brought an end to eight years of the DOI being run at the convenience of the extraction industries.

Earth Day 2026 Part 1

by mstocker • June 1, 2026 • 0 Comments

For most of modern economic history, the ocean has been valued by what can be taken from it: fish landed, oil extracted, minerals surveyed. The living systems that produce those things, and the much larger web of processes that sustain the planet, have been treated as background. Free. Assumed.