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Tesla Delivers in South Australia and Powering Up Puerto Rico

Last March, Mike Cannon-Brookes, an Australian IT billionaire issued a challenge to anyone that could fix South Australia’s woefully inadequate, electrical system. Elon Musk of Tesla fame accepted the challenge, pledging to deliver a 100-megawatt system, fully...

Life Beyond Plastics: How Fashion is Killing Our Rivers

by Robert Frerck

Pollution has many ugly faces and one of them is very unfashionable. As Lorraine Chow in EcoWatch reports “the shirts off our backs leave a devastating planetary impact.” According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new report the fashion industry’s...

Life Beyond Plastics: How Yoga Pants Are Destroying the Ocean!

by Robert Frerck

Here’s your weekly update in our series “Life Beyond Plastics” reporting on the harmful environmental effects of plastics: How Yoga Pants Are Destroying the Ocean! “With New Age names like Awake, Enlight, Balance and Align and a $100 price tag, you’d think...

Life Beyond Plastics: Bee Kind Wraps

by Robert Frerck

We should all be aware by now of the serious threat that plastics pose for the world’s oceans. Blue Ocean has published numerous articles describing the problem and others that suggest solutions like recycling. But these traditional solutions have shortcomings. For...

Tesla Tune-Up: The Latest on Electric Vehicles!

by Robert Frerck

As we have learned to expect, Elon Musk and his electric vehicles company Tesla have been busy. Tesla responded quickly to the unfolding drama in the aftermath of Maria, the Category 4 Hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico. Five weeks after Puerto Rico took a...

Mikki McComb-Kobza and Ocean First win Go Blue Award

by Robert Frerck

Congratulations to our Ocean Ally Mikki McComb-Kobza and the Ocean First Institute on receiving the Blue Friend of the Year Award at the Go Blue Awards Gala held in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on Friday, October 27. Mikki is Executive Director of Ocean First Institute...