EVENTS
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It became pretty clear to me that conservation had changed, that it wasn’t about hugging trees and saving sharks and pandas, it was about saving humans.
—Rob Stewart (Summit ’15)
Ocean Days of the Year
Int’l Children’s Book Day 2
ADEX Singapore 2019 11-14
Sustainable Diving Think Tank 12
Sustainable Diving Dialogue 13
Mote Marine Lab OceanFest 13
EarthX Film Festival 19-28
World Fish Migration Day 21
Earth Day 22
World Book Day 23
World Penguin Day 25
Inland Ocean Action Summit 27-28
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Featured Event
Pope Advises COP23 Forum “Don’t Be Stupid”
The COP23 Sustainable Innovation Forum was held in Bonn, Germany last week and the Pope had a strong message for the forum's negotiators. Warning them to avoid "four perverse attitudes" regarding climate change and its impact on our planet. “denial, indifference,...
Song of Silence
Song of Silence – Water, Spirit, Energy, Life “Mother Nature is the greatest artist and water is one of her favorite brushes. The element of water alters our vision and impressions. Known forms transition into new, unique and often startling creations, often beyond...
Mikki McComb-Kobza and Ocean First win Go Blue Award
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...
Blue Ocean Network at DEMA 2017, Nov. 1-4 in Orlando, Florida
One of our co-founders, Laurie Wilson will be at DEMA 2017 (Dive Equipment Manufacturers Association} held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, starting November 2 thru November 4.Laurie will be walking the convention floor getting the scoop on...
November 16: International Day For Tolerance
And do we need more of it!!! I must admit that in today’s hot, over-the-top political climate I have had less than perfect patience. So maybe an International Day For Tolerance will cause some of us (including myself) to take a deep, slow breath and reflect on some of...
November 24: Evolution Day
November 24, is celebrated as Evolution Day, and commemorates the anniversary of the first publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin’s masterwork On the Origin of Species. In 1837 when Darwin was only 28 years old he penned the famous line “one species does change into...
Nov. 29 – Dec. 1: Sustainable Ocean Summit
From November 29 - December 1, 2017 the World Ocean Council will present the Sustainable Ocean Summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. SOS 2017 will bring together leadership of companies and organizations representing the diversity of the Ocean Business Community....
DAN Announces 2018 Dive Medicine Research Grant
The Diver’s Alert Network or DAN has just announced they are accepting applications for its 2018 R.W. “Bill” Hamilton Dive Medicine Research Grant. DAN offers a grant of $10,000 to provide a year of support for new or ongoing research projects into diving...
Plastic Pollution Solutions
This is the second of Heather Kuhlken's articles from the Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit held in conjunction with the 2017 Our Ocean Conference that took place in Malta earlier this month. In Heather's first report, Hope For Our Ocean, she focused on the young...
$8 Billion Pledged at Our Ocean Conference
The fourth, Our Ocean conference recently held in Malta produced some amazing results, in particular, over $8 billion pledged from international leaders to fight climate change, plastic pollution and other threats to our ocean’s vital marine ecosystems. Top executives...
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