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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...