World Environment, 6/5, & Ocean, 6/8, Days
Busy week this week with World Environment Day on Monday, 6/5, and World Ocean Day on Thursday, 6/8. While World Ocean Day we are well familiar with as we are a supporter, World Environment Day is new for us even though it has been taking place…
The Blue Economy
Over the last few years, we keep hearing about the Blue Economy so thought it made sense to unpack this a bit to bring more clarity to the concept. The Blue Economy is not new as humans have been profiting from the ocean, lakes, rivers and stre…
Memorial Day Weekend (aka start of Summer), World Reef / Ocean Day & miscellaneous thoughts...
Welcome to Memorial Day 2022 and the unofficial start of summer. Hope folks are planning on a beach weekend, whether the ocean, lake, pond, river or stream, but if not that doesn't mean you can't take a day trip to the beach sometime this weekend.&nb…
Earth Day 2022 + other stuff
So here we are at Earth Day 2022 where the theme is invest in the planet. I have to be honest, I think the tag line is overly optimistic as we, humans, as a species, don't seem to grok the damage we are doing to the earth. Silly humans.&n…
World Water Day 2022
Today, March 22, 2022, is World Water Day. While this year's theme is Groundwater - Making the Invisible Visible, before we drill in on that let's step back and take a look at how much water is on earth and what shape does it take.Roughly 71% o…