…I suspect the oil industry is getting anxious that at some point their stock value may soon hinge on their productivity, and not on their reserve ‘speculations.’
Shell game of the Oilmen
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Negative impacts of negative pressure
Organisms are built to handle compression – positive pressure. But decompression. or “negative barotrauma,” is another matter.
Jerry Mander passes on
Jerry has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s more influential intellectuals, using his systematic thinking to flavor the region’s humanist tendencies, and questioning the many orthodoxies of our western social and economic thought.
OCR 2021 Year-End Progress Report
In February of this year we were sort-of gasping on the shore after having spent four years tossed upon the tempestuous waves of a reckless, and oil-soaked administration…
Getting along!
I look forward to a time in the near future when we can come out from behind our masks and learn from the playful lead of our animal relations!
Northern California kelp stages a comeback!
Systems thinking and the evolution of an idea
In the early 1990’s Physical Oceanographer Walter Munk was proposing the deployment of a technology called “Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate” (ATOC), whereby loud, low frequency sounds would be projected from the Pioneer Seamount across the Pacific Ocean, to Kauai, with the understanding…
Working on the Ocean Climate Action Plan
Back in the darkening days of the previous administration, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020 – a roadmap to advancing our engagement with the ocean with a…
Human Kindness
With much more than a sigh of relief; I can start breathing again more regularly as the wheels of our Republic start pulling out of the ditch they’ve been stuck in for some time now. But there is much more…
(Not so) Critical Habitat
On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed two definitions of the word “habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Both of their proposed definitions limited the agency’s ability…