World Ocean Observatory's Podcast
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World Ocean Radio is a project of the World Ocean Observatory, online at www.thew2o.net. World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues. Available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
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172: American Freedom? | The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to destroy the program that has enabled the recovery of six endangered species through a successful regulatory scheme called “catch shares” by which regional fish councils set overall limits on annual harvest and then apportion the catch among individual fishermen. And by the same action, the House voted against a long-overdue and publicly supported National Ocean Policy that would address other problems that lie at the core of the continuing degradation of U.S. inland and coastal waters and the deep ocean. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that we are drowning in these politics and will ask, "Who are the real subversives in this situation? How do we protect ourselves from this corruption of our basic values? Is this how we really mean to define American freedom?" _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues. Available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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171: A Hidden Cost of Oil | Today we are concerned with the rising cost of gasoline at the pump while we struggle with the implications of our demand, argue for or against more drilling, and despair over clean-up costs and restoration in fragile marine environments. Hidden in this situation is a cost beyond our control: the effect of speculators who inflate the cost of oil as they bid up the price in pursuit of financial gain. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share a recent article written by Joseph P. Kennedy II regarding this phenomenon of oil futures and will argue that by continuing to underwrite this process we allow profits to be distributed to the benefit of the few while damaging the financial and social fabric of the many. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory (www.thew2o.net) and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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170: Failed Governance | International climate meetings take place; world leaders converge to address the degradation of our land and sea environment; panels gather to review lack of progress of conservation goals. Yet the work of policy makers, the United Nations and NGOs is seemingly swallowed up by our consumption-based reality. While many countries are at work analyzing the challenges for conservation and management, international and national governance of ocean issues has mostly failed, either directly or by inadequacy of urgency and action. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will ask us to look toward local governance and local contribution as ways to mitigate the larger international challenges that face us. He will ask that we stop clinging to shreds of false optimism and to act individually and collectively to demonstrate by example in order to bring about change to the failure of national and international governance of ocean issues. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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169: Conciliation of Interest | Beneath almost every environmental challenge we face today lie various conflicts of interest. In the context of the ocean there are examples everywhere: subversion of international fishing quotas to gratify voters with a taste for sushi; oil companies' flagrant disregard for the environment, acceptance of subsidies, and record profits; overfishing worldwide. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the relationship of fisherman and customer; market pressure and the necessity for balance, change, and responsible consumption; and fishing in an age when more consumers are willing to live with less as a means to conserve depleting resources. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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168: Waste | Today, one of the most startling manifestations of waste is the vast accumulation of petroleum-plastic thought to be no longer useful enough to even be recycled. Our landfills and beaches are littered with plastic, a material designed to last forever yet used each day for products and packaging that have no value at the end of their short life cycle. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the seemingly endless life of this swirling, slowly dissolving petrol-detritus and will explain how the particulate matter enters the food chain and affects us all. _________________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. Image: Seabirds Surrounded by Plastics Credit: Claire Fackler, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries | Marine Photobank | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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167: Thinking Like an Island | We are a society organized around apparently insatiable consumption of natural resources and products derived from such resources. This drive has created stress on our terrestrial and marine environments. How do we begin to shift our priorities? Change our behaviors? Alter our patterns of consumption? Make different decisions so as to sustain the resources that remain, and assure our future survival? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must begin thinking like an island--wherein communities of individuals live and are defined by different limits, different needs and different utilities. Islands are more reliant on things to hand: water locally drawn, food locally raised or harvested from the sea, local skills required to make and fix things for themselves, circumstances which demand a certain standard for living. If we are able to adopt this standard of living and look at our cities and nations as islands, we may yet halt the bankruptcy of over-consumption. ______________________________________________________________________ About World Ocean Radio: Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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166: Population, Fresh Water and the Ocean | As population continues to grow, the requirements to sustain such numbers of us are enormous. Fresh water demand will increase 70% to satisfy basic water needs, and where will all this water come from? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss outcomes and solutions from the World Water Forum which took place in Marseilles, France in March and will assert that we perhaps need look no further than the ocean as the major contributor to the fresh water cycle and ask that we work to devise a revised understanding of this vast hydraulic reservoir. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. Resources from this episode: World Water Forum: http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/ | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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165: Hydraulic New York | The concepts of water harvesting and management are not new. In communities where water scarcity is a fact of life, the techniques are essential. How do we envision a hydraulic society with a growing world population which has enormous impacts on climate, watersheds, coastal areas and the deep ocean? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real and compelling example for sustainability and increased conservation values, and an illustration for improved water quality techniques which could be implemented by other mega-cities around the world. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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164: Mega-Cities by the Sea | How do we protect the ocean? Perhaps the most popular tactic in play today is the marine protected area, a growing number of places around the globe designated and structured to shelter pristine ocean space. But if we are to look for a primary strategy for ocean protection, we must look beyond these distant places and focus closer to home to the mega-cities that are the true point source of the most dangerous and deadly contributors to the ongoing pollution of the world ocean. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss these places of development, industry, and manufacturing and will argue that we must move beyond the protected areas of our world ocean and look to our cities as visionary laboratories for change, with an eye toward turning coastal mega-cities into exemplary marine protected areas. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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163: Environmental Education in India | In most schools today, understanding of the ocean is a partitioned subject with no coordinated understanding through any single department, and in the United States ocean literacy has encountered continuous resistance due to a number of factors. Even in programs designed toward environmental studies, there is a common terrestrial bias which relegates the ocean to secondary importance. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss his recent trip to India and his meetings with leaders of the Indian Maritime Foundation as well as principals and teachers in the Pune area to discuss the implementation of W2O's One Ocean curriculum. Tune in to hear of some surprising successes and to gain insight into the complex yet amenable world of Indian education. __________________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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162: World Bank and a New Global Partnership for Oceans | At The Economist's World Ocean Summit in Singapore in early 2012, World Bank Group president Robert B. Zoellick announced that they are turning their attention to the ocean, partnering with NGOs to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars in what will be called The Global Partnership for Oceans. This "new partnership" is largely comprised of the same organizations and strategies that have been in play for more than a decade. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the key issues to be addressed by the Global Partnership for Oceans and will pose the questions, "Is this grand design anything more than a new overlay of what already is?" and "Are we merely repackaging the status quo in a new glossy wrapper?" ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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161: The Necessary Renewal | Ocean research and advocacy organizations are alive and well. However, ocean education receives a mere fraction of overall budgets of these organizations. Educational programs are cut and staff positions remain unfilled. We are looking for solutions. If this situation is so dire, why are we not moving beyond understanding of parameters to get to very specific action and ideas? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that the time has come to gather teachers and administrators together to take the necessary steps to bring ocean programs into the classroom--not just once but on a continuing basis. While the inhibiting factors are many, these same individuals must be empowered to take the necessary steps in approach and structure that will enable change. Leaders in ocean science and education, research and policy must accept this mandate for renewal--revitalization of not what we teach but how we teach it. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. Image: Middle school students learn about the ocean from Project Oceanology staff. Credit: Christine Sziabowski | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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160: Sustainability | Sustainability is the catch word we hear most of late for how to deal progressively with the social and economic challenges resulting from population growth, a global economy, and our appetite for non-renewable natural resources. From the broadest ecosystem view, the ocean becomes an enormous contributor to any new strategy of resilience, maintenance, and enhancement of global biodiversity and capacity, essential to the life-support system of the earth. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue for the ocean as the true commons, a reservoir of natural capital without which the mechanics of the earth would break down. He will assert that the green economy will not succeed without the blue economy. When we begin to see the ocean as integral to the land rather than a place apart from it, we may have achieved the means to build a world that is truly sustainable. ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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159: The Point of No Return | With the ocean we are, in all likelihood, at the point of no return. We know it would take half a century to reverse the acid base in sea water if we halted emissions today, decades for forests, coral reefs, and coastal areas to regenerate, for species of fish to return to prior numbers. In some instances it is already too late, some species having passed no return into extinction. How much more evidence will be needed, example-by-example, until we are forced to admit that the time for decision has come? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss these convictions and give examples of observation, research and experience to support the facts of these assertions. He'll discuss the environmental community that has been at work formulating sustainable concepts beyond the point of no return as a collective framework for action. _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues. Available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. Photo Credit: A. Bijukumar/Marine Photobank | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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158: The Sea Around Us | Rachel Carson and Jacques Cousteau's legacies have driven decades of new investigation, research institutes, conservation action and programs in the U.S. and around the world. Their work has inspired increased ocean observation and advocacy and has raised ocean knowledge and planning to its highest level. But is it enough? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the initial phases of the Carson/Cousteau legacy and will argue that if the second phase of that legacy was the definition of questions, then the future of the world ocean will depend upon the next phase: the application and invention of answers. ___________________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. Episode References: Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Marine Biological Institute at Woods Hole, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Jacques Cousteau, WWF, Nature Conservancy, NRDC, Conservation International, Oceana, The Ocean Conservancy, Photo Credit: Better World For Animals | Sea Shepard Conservation Society | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Episodes |
