Latest Oceans podcast Podcast Episodes
Plastic: Cycle and Recycle
World Ocean Radio - July 10, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsPlastic. It is ubiquitous. It is everywhere in our lives, yet we do not possess the cycle or recycle to continue production in a sustainable or environmentally friendly way. If offsets and recycling do not provide the answer, what does? About World Ocean Radio World Ocean Radio is a weekly se...
How Old is Water?
World Ocean Radio - July 04, 2024 21:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsHow old is water? Where on earth is water found? How is it circulated, cycled, and recycled? We know where water is distributed on the planet down to the fraction of a percentage. We know that water is finite in volume and its utility is constant. What happens when we pollute water? What happens...
An Ocean Literacy Declaration
World Ocean Radio - June 27, 2024 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWorld Ocean Observatory is ever in search of new systems that convert knowledge into action, especially as they relate to ocean education and communication. Here on World Ocean Radio we often discuss the concepts and principles of ocean literacy, and the ways in which they can be distilled into ...
My Meeting with the Alewives
World Ocean Radio - June 19, 2024 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWorld Ocean Radio offers five-minute weekly insights that dive into ocean science, advocacy and education, hosted by Peter Neill, Director of the W2O, author, and lifelong ocean advocate. Episodes offer perspectives on global ocean issues, today’s challenges, marine science and policy, and exemp...
The State of the Ocean, 2024
World Ocean Radio - June 18, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratings"The state of the ocean is not good." So states Vidar Helgesen in the forward to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) State of the Ocean Report that was released in May. This week on World Ocean Radio we are summarizing the findings. About World Ocean Radio World Ocean ...
What is World Ocean Day Meant to Do?
World Ocean Radio - June 07, 2024 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsOn June 8th each year we come together as a global community to celebrate World Ocean Day, a date set aside to recognize our relationship with the ocean. Public awareness of ocean issues in the United States barely advances year on year, despite consistent efforts by conservation, ocean, and oth...
A Rescue Blueprint: How the Ocean Can Save Civilization pt 2 of 2
World Ocean Radio - May 29, 2024 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWe have launched a Substack to share a plan for specific action and public participation. In this two-episode arch we reintroduce listeners to RESCUE: a 33-part series outlining a plan for specific action and public participation, providing a blueprint for how the ocean can save civilization. In...
A Rescue Blueprint: How the Ocean Can Save Civilization
World Ocean Radio - May 22, 2024 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWe have launched a Substack to share a plan for specific action and public participation. This week and next on World Ocean Radio, we will reintroduce listeners to RESCUE: a 33-part series outlining a plan for specific action and public participation, providing a blueprint for how the ocean can ...
Looking East from West
World Ocean Radio - May 15, 2024 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsAfter a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, locally, and nationally to our purchases, foodways, institutions, public relations, our life choices? Look from the East, look from the West: are we ...
Bio-Regional Thinking and the Deep Sea
World Ocean Radio - May 08, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsBio-regions on Earth are organized into types, then realms, and are further distinguished and mapped for planning, strategizing, developing, and as a tool for protection of the planet. A major trouble with bio-regional mapping is that it neglects nearly 83 percent of the ocean–beyond marine prot...
What is Profit?
World Ocean Radio - May 02, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we're defining new ways to consider profit as a return on investment--not as an enemy of change but as a catalyst for a sustainable strategy for the future. An effective sustainability strategy must include the true asset cost of natural resources and the post-prod...
Tactics for Change
World Ocean Radio - April 24, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we're sharing some methods and means to make small and large changes that can have effects on the climate and sustainability challenges that are caused in large part by the consumer choices we make every day. About World Ocean Radio World Ocean Radio is a weekly...
Regulation
World Ocean Radio - April 19, 2024 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a recent trip to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Economist Ocean Summit. One such conversation we participated in was on the topic of regulation--those systems and structures that frame best practices and are designed to control abuse. Regulation is...
Nocturn
World Ocean Radio - April 09, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsA nocturne is a short musical composition: dreamy, romantic, suggestive of the night, a passage from one place to the next. This week we're asking: What comes next for our collective energy and focus? What it is that will get us safely from this place of climate crisis and uncertainty to another...
Distillation
World Ocean Radio - April 09, 2024 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWhat are the five areas of our collective existence on earth where the ocean matters most? If we are looking for a context to drive motivation and action, we have in our view the necessary clear focus through these absolutes--water, energy, food, health, and exchange--that can guide us toward a ...
Nature's Balance Sheet
World Ocean Radio - March 20, 2024 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsIn business, as in life, there is a balance sheet, a statement of assets, profit and loss, income and expense, showing whether our accounts are in balance, or not. In a consumption and production driven society, we must understand the asset value, balance and imbalance of our planet's natural re...
What About the Land?
World Ocean Radio - March 13, 2024 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratings40% of the planet is used for farming and livestock, often degraded by unsustainable or destructive practices. Coupled with coastal, wetland and reclaimed land development in the name of urban expansion, we are fast-approaching a tipping point wherein infrastructure exceeds demand. What to do? A...
Aqua-Cultural Thoughts
World Ocean Radio - March 07, 2024 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsSeafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing issue in coastal communities. What are we to do? This week we explore two Maine-based successes in aquaculture that are building local supply chains, in...
Ecological Overshoot, part two
World Ocean Radio - February 22, 2024 21:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratings"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely. With climate conditions constantly in the news, public awareness must follow," says Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory. This week ...
Ecological Overshoot, part one
World Ocean Radio - February 14, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsIn this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, December 2023. While many millions of dollars and intentions were pledged toward solutions, the focus and associated resp...
Global Climate Events
World Ocean Radio - January 24, 2024 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsDevastating weather and water events abound worldwide. Rain, flooding, strong winds, extreme high tides, coastal erosion and inundation have caused havoc in ports and on waterfronts. These events are neither new nor are they going away any time soon. While we will continue to rebuild and revive,...
700 Episodes of World Ocean Radio: Thanks for Listening!
World Ocean Radio - January 10, 2024 18:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we are celebrating our 700th episode of World Ocean Radio--5-minute reflections featured as podcast and interstitial radio syndicate for 14 years. From these ongoing observations have come four books and continuous contribution toward a strategy to communicate the importance of healthy...
An End-of-Year Reading of "At the Fishhouses"
World Ocean Radio - December 27, 2023 19:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsAt each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem, a perennial favorite, was chosen not only for its relevance for the New Year, but also because it distills years of Bishop's seaside meditations and evokes the clarity of meaning cont...
Christmas At Sea
World Ocean Radio - December 20, 2023 19:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Stevenson, the son of a lighthouse engineer, had intimate knowledge of nor'westers... Merry Christmas to all from the World Ocean Observat...
Marine Biomimetics, part three
World Ocean Radio - December 15, 2023 02:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsIn part three of this 3-part series, we continue to explore the recent publication related to marine biomimetics and the deep sea, identifying the seven broad categories of biomimetic design, discussing each with examples of application, technological invention, and as effective solution models ...
Marine Biomimetics, part two
World Ocean Radio - December 08, 2023 14:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsIn these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomimetics and Inspiration from the Deep Sea,” authored by Robert Blasiak from the Stockholm Resilience Center in Sweden. The article identifies seven bro...
Marine Biomimetics, part one
World Ocean Radio - November 08, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsOver the next few editions of World Ocean Radio we will be discussing a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomimetics and Inspiration from the Deep Sea,” authored by Robert Blasiak from the Stockholm Resilience Center in Sweden. The article identifies s...
Two Steps Forward in a Changing Climate
World Ocean Radio - November 02, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio are two forward-looking government-proposed initiatives that offer opportunities for progress in climate policy, investment, resiliency and sustainability. The first is Bridgetown 2.0, proposed by the Prime Minister of Barbados, to urge UN member states to consider...
Insurance in a New Climate Era
World Ocean Radio - October 18, 2023 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWe are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are signaling policy and coverage shifts, and there is a growing realization that existing policies and programs are not adequate to the new realities. Insur...
Megaphonics: Ocean Communication Heroes
World Ocean Radio - October 12, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about the megaphonics of ocean communications. How do we as communicators break through? How do we create messaging that resonates and reaches the millions of citizens whose lives are so dependent on the ocean’s bounty? We highlight two ocean heroes, ...
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