Latest Oceans podcast Podcast Episodes
Ocean Storytelling
World Ocean Radio - October 05, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill talks about the power of storytelling and the vast catalog of tales of adventure, sailors, song, battle, Captain's logs, letters home, and more that tell the stories of our ocean culture and civilization. About World Ocean Radio Peter Neill, Dire...
Change Is In the Details
World Ocean Radio - September 27, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a topic close to our home waters in Maine: the dispute between the lobster fishery and environmentalists over gear modification and the entanglement of migrating right whales. And we highlight the Maine Coast Fisherman's Association who recently ad...
Rescue, part 33: A Personal Call to Action
World Ocean Radio - September 20, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we wrap up the 33-part RESCUE series with a a checklist of steps and questions for a practical, personal plan and strategy to embrace the transformational change required to sustain the deteriorating world ocean. About World Ocean Radio Peter Neill, Director of t...
Rescue, part 32: World Ocean Ethos
World Ocean Radio - September 13, 2023 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing the means to accelerate the urgent response required to visualize, plan, and implement for a new ocean future. ETHOS is defined as the spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations." About World Ocean Radio ...
World Ocean Culture
World Ocean Radio - August 31, 2023 22:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on the RESCUE series we're continuing our discussion of the water cycle and the ways it defines our cultural identity from global to local. We are surrounded by evidence of our cultural ocean: we see it at all shores both fresh and salt, we see it the location of our settlements, in ou...
Rescue, part 30: Water and World Ocean Health
World Ocean Radio - August 23, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWe are nearing the end of the RESCUE series. This week, in its 30th edition, we're talking about water: the well-spring of world ocean health and the essential natural system that sustains us all, thus its protection and sustainability are the key strategy for RESCUE. About World Ocean Radio ...
RESCUE, part 29: Trans-Generational Urgency
World Ocean Radio - August 16, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsWe are nearing the end of the 33-part RESCUE series. This week we turn our attention to the young people around the world that are approaching outdated conventions with resilience and resolve. Thousands upon thousands of youth activists are having their voices heard and their calls to action hee...
RESCUE, part 28: A Transformational Tool for Ocean Literacy
World Ocean Radio - August 09, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a highlight of the World Ocean Explorer virtual aquarium project of the W2O, an innovative tool by which to present responsible science, innovative education, and a unique virtual experience freely accessible to all. For further information...
RESCUE, part 27: How to Advance Ocean Literacy
World Ocean Radio - August 02, 2023 21:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we continue the RESCUE series with recommendations to further protect the ocean--by building ocean literacy into every level of education and action around the world. About World Ocean Radio Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory and host of World ...
RESCUE, part 26: The Missing Links--Education and Communication
World Ocean Radio - July 19, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a shift from suggestions for change to analysis and observation of those things that are missing from the equation--namely ocean education and communication. And we assert that the need for ocean literacy has never been more important, and ...
A Night Sky
World Ocean Radio - July 13, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio we are re-broadcasting an episode in which we look to the night sky, to ponder the wonder contained therein, and to explore the danger of polluting it forever in the name of modern navigation and instant communications worldwide. About World Ocean Radio Peter Nei...
RESCUE, part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat
World Ocean Radio - July 05, 2023 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with those who fund and communicate ocean programs and projects. RESCUE as an acronym offers a plan for specific action and public participation: Renewal, Env...
RESCUE, part 24: Ocean Finance Reform: Step by Step
World Ocean Radio - June 28, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series by listing some of the most critical changes and improvements required to create a new, sustainable ocean economy--in essence a checklist for step-by-step actions toward future governance, regulation and investment in the world ocean. RESCUE as...
RESCUE, part 23: Financial Instruments for a New Ocean Ethos
World Ocean Radio - June 21, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week on World Ocean Radio as part of the multi-part RESCUE series we revisit the concept of ecosystem services accounting and propose that, in order to create a culture of investment for our future, we must apply energy, imagination and innovation to enable transition and success. RESCUE as...
RESCUE, part 22: What is Net Zero?
World Ocean Radio - June 14, 2023 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThe multi-part RESCUE series continues this week with a discussion of the reality of carbon offsets, corporate accounting, and the concept of net zero. In this episode we lay out three paths forward toward a sustainable future: 1. remove subsidies 2. embrace renewable alternatives and 3. shift f...
Ecosystem Services Accounting: An Example
World Ocean Radio - May 31, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a hypothetical tale of investment, manufacture and accounting, and the financial analyses of both sides of the balance sheet: the initial investments and benefits to investors and the long-term debits of extraction, public health, emissions, ...
RESCUE, part 20: How to Account for an Ocean Economy
World Ocean Radio - May 24, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a breakdown of a 2020 Report by the World Resource Institute High Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy that offered some revised definitions and pathways toward a more sustainable future, including three fundamental questions as a framew...
RESCUE, part 19: Valuing Ecosystem Services
World Ocean Radio - May 17, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a call for a new valuation of ecosystem services and natural resources that reflects the true costs of goods, services and ecosystem functions inclusive to habitat, food, water, regulation and recycling that serve human populations now and in...
RESCUE, part 18: Opportunity for Ocean Finance
World Ocean Radio - May 10, 2023 13:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a turn toward the topic of finance. This episode lays out a plan for future editions that focuses on examples that calculate the value of the ocean including ecosystems services, accounting and practices that calculate the value of goods and ...
RESCUE, part 17: Technology and the Ocean Pharmacopeia
World Ocean Radio - May 03, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an examination of familiar products derived from the ocean that we use to support our ways of life, our well-being and our health: from vitamins and supplements to pain and cancer treatments. And we discuss the future of exploration and explo...
RESCUE, part 16: Technology and Ocean Farming
World Ocean Radio - April 26, 2023 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an advancement of the sub-theme of technology. We're talking about the pitfalls of modern agriculture, examples of sustainable fisheries, and the innovative ways that we might farm the marine environment that positively impact human health an...
RESCUE, part 15: Technology Food and Health
World Ocean Radio - April 20, 2023 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with the topic of seafood consumption. While more than 3 billion people worldwide rely on wild-caught and farmed seafood as a significant source of animal protein, unsustainable and illegally caught seafood harvest threatens a major health crisi...
RESCUE, part 14: Technology and Climate Action
World Ocean Radio - April 12, 2023 14:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with an outline of the four technological focus areas of the recently announced Ocean Climate Action Plan, the organizing connection of which is technology. Guiding the actions of the plan are a commitment to be responsible stewards of a healthy...
RESCUE, part 13: The Democratization of Technology
World Ocean Radio - April 05, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with defined programs and relationships that apply technologies toward public good, such as a universal grid system, battery generation and storage, desalination, and better understanding of natural systems and our relationship to them. RESCUE a...
RESCUE, part 12: Technological Innovation
World Ocean Radio - April 05, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a discussion of alternative energy solutions, battery technology, geothermal energy production, and the adaptation of existing at-sea platforms and rigs to capture energy from the ocean as a less-polluting, renewed, refit utility, taking an...
RESCUE, part 11: Earth Law
World Ocean Radio - March 22, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a discussion of Earth law, a framework built upon the idea that ecosystems have the right to exist and thrive, and that Nature should be able to defend those rights in court. Can we ratify a collective treaty toward the protection of Nature...
RESCUE, part 10: UNCLOS and Biological Diversity
World Ocean Radio - March 15, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a continuation of UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In early March, the UN finalized a consensus agreement to work toward the conservation and protection of ocean resources and ecosystems. RESCUE as an acronym off...
RESCUE, part 9: UNCLOS, A Plan in Hand
World Ocean Radio - March 08, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a highlight of UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a major example of a far-reaching universal agreement that was drafted in 1982 and ratified in 1984. At the recent Davos gathering, a call to overhaul the UNCLOS in...
RESCUE, part 8: Policy Applied
World Ocean Radio - February 28, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a highlight of two policies--the Antarctic Treaty and the Hamilton Agreement for the Sargasso Sea--that are working to successfully engage parties and members and maintain oversight for ocean and ecosystem conservation. RESCUE as an acronym...
RESCUE, part 7: Policy That Works
World Ocean Radio - February 22, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 70 ratingsThis week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series by featuring some successful initiatives and ocean progress, with examples of policies related to Marine Protected Areas that are working and thriving. RESCUE as an acronym offers a plan for specific action and public participation: Renewal, Env...
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