147: Citizens of the Ocean
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 04:51
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How do we build a new global constituency for the ocean?
This world is connected, not divided, by the sea – through the circulation of protein, goods, people, and ideas. Storm impact and sea level rise can threaten any time, anywhere, making environmental refugees of us all. The ocean contains an enormous, unexplored inventory of medicinal cures, unlimited energy, and the desalinated drinking water that each of us needs in exactly the same amount each day to survive.
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill talks about the W2O, the Subscription Service, and asks how we might connect and unite the citizens of the ocean worldwide, and to change how we understand and use the ocean’s bounty. Listeners are encouraged to voice opinion about what more we can do. Send an email to citizens@thew2o.net with your ideas.
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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.
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How do we build a new global constituency for the ocean?
This world is connected, not divided, by the sea – through the circulation of protein, goods, people, and ideas. Storm impact and sea level rise can threaten any time, anywhere, making environmental refugees of us all. The ocean contains an enormous, unexplored inventory of medicinal cures, unlimited energy, and the desalinated drinking water that each of us needs in exactly the same amount each day to survive.
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill talks about the W2O, the Subscription Service, and asks how we might connect and unite the citizens of the ocean worldwide, and to change how we understand and use the ocean’s bounty. Listeners are encouraged to voice opinion about what more we can do. Send an email to citizens@thew2o.net with your ideas.
_______________________________________________________________________
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.
Broadcast History
WERU-FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport.
Transcript
WOR 157
Citizens of the Ocean
I’m Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory.
How do we build a new global constituency for the ocean? That is, of course, the purpose of the not-for-profit World Ocean Observatory, to be a place of exchange about the ocean defined as “an integrated, global, social system,” thereby transcending conventional focus on species and habitat to relate the ocean to other things that matter to us – fresh water, climate, food, energy, public health, trade, transportation, international finance, policy, planning, governance, economic development, and cultural traditions – all the human involvement inherent in ocean systems that have direct and indirect implication for our future.
Since 2006, the Observatory has done just that – advocated through information and science and provided educational services to an on-line audience that has doubled every y...
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Additional Credits
Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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