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Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastAmy Bowers Cordalis and a River’s RebirthIn the latest episode, David Helvarg and Natasha Benjamin speak with Amy Bowers Cordalis of California’s Yurok Tribe about her life and her new book, The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. Amy, the former general counsel for the Yurok Tribe, the largest tribe in California, living along the Klamath River, shares the story of her family’s leadership in the historic effort to remove four dams on the Klamath following the devastating 2002 fish kill. She reflects on how the Yurok and neighboring Klamath Basin tribes mobilized, organized, and pe...
2025-11-1728 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastMinistering to MarinersIn the latest episode, David Helvarg & Vicki Nichols Goldstein talk with the Reverend Robert Wilkins about how his faith led him to his work with the Seafarers Ministry, serving ship crews arriving at the Port of Oakland, California. Wilkins and his team make ship visits, help crew members connect with families in places like the Philippines and Bangladesh, and check in on conditions such as time spent at sea and food quality — often doing follow-up when issues arise.
They also support mariners on shore leave with recreation, transportation, and other needs, and even coordinate doctor visits when ne...
2025-11-0328 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastAndrew Zimmern’s Blue FoodsIn the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein speak with Chef Andrew Zimmern — the award-winning host and producer of numerous acclaimed radio and television programs, including the Food Channel’s Bizarre Foods and the PBS documentary series Hope in the Water, which explores ocean farming and restoration.
Zimmern, who began working in the food industry at age 14, has authored several books, including the forthcoming Blue Food Cookbook, co-written with Cod and Country author and longtime Blue Frontier friend Barton Seaver.
A recipient of multiple James Beard Awar...
2025-10-2028 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastBalancing Wonder and Warning: Dr. Ben Halpern on the Future of Our OceansIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David and Natasha speak with Dr. Ben Halpern. Along with being a past Peter Benchley Ocean Award winner, Ben serves as Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also a professor of marine biology and conservation science. Among his numerous honors and research papers, he’s contributed to a new report published in Science magazine warning that the world’s ecosystems could be permanently altered – meaning degraded – by mid-century if the present trend in greenhous...
2025-10-0628 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastLabor is for ‘Revolution’ in Offshore WindIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David speaks with Erica Hammond, Legislative Director of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO. They represent most of the roughly 1,000 workers who’ve been out of a job since the Trump administration issued a stop-work order in August on the ‘Revolution’ wind farm project. That’s a 5 billion-dollar 80 percent completed offshore wind farm that was slated to bring clean power to New England next year while saving ratepayers money.
Erica talks about how groups like ‘Climate Jobs Rhode Island’ helped bring unions, environmentalists and low-income communities together to promote an energy transitio...
2025-09-2228 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastDrew Harvell — Exploring the Secrets of the SeaIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein of the Inland Ocean Coalition interview Dr. Drew Harvell, an esteemed professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. The discussion delves into the recent breakthrough in identifying the bacteria responsible for sea star wasting disease, which has decimated starfish populations and kelp forests on the West Coast. Dr. Harvell reveals her journey into marine biology, highlights her research on marine ecosystem health, and discusses her influential books, including ‘A Sea of Glass’ and ‘The Ocean’s Menagerie.’ Dr. Harvell emphasizes the impact of...
2025-09-0828 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastKirsten Donald — A Voice for the Ocean’s MammalsThe latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast features a conversation with Kirsten Donald, a marine mammal biologist, educator, and ocean advocate with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California. This renowned rescue center responds to whales and dolphins in distress while rehabilitating and releasing hundreds of sick and injured seals and sea lions each year.
Before joining the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Kirsten spent 18 years at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, where she also co-founded and directed the College of Marine Mammal Professions.
Learn about the current state...
2025-08-2528 min
Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastThe War Against the Greens - Stronger than EverThe latest episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast features an excerpt from a recent conversation between David Helvarg and Chris Clarke of the desert podcast 90 Miles from Needles. Clarke discusses Helvarg’s first book, The War Against the Greens (1994), which was highly influential in exposing a violent environmental backlash funded by western industries such as hard-rock mining, beef, and timber.Helvarg draws parallels between that earlier backlash and today’s top-down right-wing attacks on environmental laws and agencies under President Trump. He explores how violent rhetoric and climate denial merged within a Republican Part...
2025-08-1128 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastThe War Against the Greens – Stronger than EverThe latest episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast features an excerpt from a recent conversation between David Helvarg and Chris Clarke of the desert podcast 90 Miles from Needles. Clarke discusses Helvarg’s first book, The War Against the Greens (1994), which was highly influential in exposing a violent environmental backlash funded by western industries such as hard-rock mining, beef, and timber.
Helvarg draws parallels between that earlier backlash and today’s top-down right-wing attacks on environmental laws and agencies under President Trump. He explores how violent rhetoric and climate denial merged within a Republican Party that once cham...
2025-08-1128 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastGeorge Leonard on Trump’s Anti-Ocean BillIn the latest Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast David and Vicki talk with former Ocean Conservancy Chief Scientist and policy expert George Leonard about the Trump administration’s approach to our public seas. In taking a closer look at the BBB (‘Big Beautiful’ or ‘Big Brother’) mega-bill that Congress just passed, George breaks down many of the vital services from ocean observation and weather labs to protection of salmon, parks in the sea and public education, fishing regulation, beach pollution warning systems, deep-sea exploration and coastal management that will be gutted or terminated under this law.
Listening to area exp...
2025-07-2828 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastMeaghan Brosnan – Ocean Sheriff
Protecting Wildlife, Enforcing Change: A Global Dive with WildAid’s Meaghan Brosnan
In the latest episode David & Vicki talk with Wildaid CEO Meaghan Brosnan who, when it comes to marine wildlife and protected areas, is all about the enforcement. Wildaid is a leading international non-profit dedicated to saving the world’s declining wildlife species, perhaps best known for its decade-long media campaign that helped turn China from a consumer to an opponent of shark finning.
Since taking over in 2017, Meaghan has expanded Wildaid’s ocean programs 10-fold with an emphasis on putting the bad guys away. N...
2025-07-1428 min
90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection PodcastS4E17: The War Against The Greens, UpdatedChris discusses the intersection of environmental activism and political challenges with activist and investigative journalist David Helvarg. The discussion revisits Helvarg's prescient 1994 book, "The War Against the Greens," exploring the evolution of anti-environmental movements from the Wise Use agenda to current political dynamics. They examine threats to democracy, public lands, and global environmental activism amid escalating misinformation and violence. Listeners are given a break mid-episode with serene sounds recorded in Grapevine Canyon, Nevada.Become a desert defender!: https://90milesfromneedles.com/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-05-2754 min
Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastFrom Jaws to Jubilation: The Legacy & Return of The Peter Benchley Ocean AwardsIn this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean podcast, Vicki Nichols Goldstein discusses the return of the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards with co-founder Wendy Benchley and Rising Tide co-host and co-founder David Helvarg. After a 7-year hiatus, the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards are set to return on May 8, 2025, at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, backed by the nationwide Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP). Their conversation covers the origins of the awards, their impact on the ocean conservation community, and the excitement surrounding their return. Wendy and David share memorable moments from past awards and highlights t...
2024-11-1829 min
Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastThe Ocean and the Elections - A talk with Mark SpaldingOn the latest episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein talk with Mark Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation and an expert on international law and policy about the Ocean and the Elections. They discuss how starkly different the two 2024 presidential candidates are when it comes to marine conservation and climate issues. Also why, after the hottest summer in human history, there’s been so little talk about climate and the environment. Vicki and David also look at the record of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and pull some rec...
2024-09-2328 min
Resilient Earth Radio & PodcastHear how they help! Blue Frontier's David Helvarg Rising Tide - The Ocean Podcast & Natasha Benjamin Filmmaker Sequoias of the SeaSend us a textIn this episode, meet American award-winning journalist David Helvarg & Natasha Benjamin of the Ocean conservation and policy group, Blue Frontier in the San Francisco Bay Area and hosts of Rising Tide, The Ocean Podcast. David is an Award-winning American journalist, author, and an environmental activist. Natasha is a Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentary Sequoias of the Sea is being created Ana Blanco, the Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. That’s up next, right here on Resilient Earth where we talk about critical issues and posit...
2024-09-0854 min
Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #105 - Nancy Rabalais is the Mother of Dead ZonesIn the latest episode of Rising Tide, along with Blue News, David and Vicki talk with Dr. Nancy Rabalais from Louisiana State University. Nancy’s been called ‘the mother of dead zones’ in that her decades of research has helped define the Gulf of Mexico’s seasonal oxygen-depleted waters generated by polluted agricultural runoff from the Mississippi. These dead zones can grow to the size of New Jersey. She’s also studied the long-term impacts of the BP oil spill. Plus, we’ll hear about her encounter with an offshore alligator.'Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast...
2024-03-2527 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #85 – From Paddle boards to Spy Whales with Rich GermanToday we speak with Rich German –photographer, paddle boarder, podcaster and founder of Project O. Along with thousands of hours stand up paddling with Orcas, Blue whales, dolphins and seals, Rich has been instrumental in creating blue city standards for coastal communities while also working on the establishment of a whale sanctuary in Norway plus seeking to protect a Beluga spy whale presently swimming off of Sweden. And yes, it’s as strange as it sounds. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-G...
2023-06-1928 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #84 – Congressman Jared Huffman is an Ocean ChampOn today’s show we speak with Rep. Jared Huffman (D – CA) whose congressional district runs up California’s coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. A long time ocean champion he talks about laws he’s helped pass to protect salmon and kelp forests, the removal of dams on the Klamath river and how offshore floating wind farms could be the greatest boom to the area’s economy since logging but with better outcomes. He also talks about what’s unique on “the redwood coast.” Join us in a hopeful conversation.R...
2023-06-0529 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #83– Rob Moir's Ocean RiverOn today’s show David speaks with Rob Moir, sailor, scientist and founder of the Cambridge Massachusetts based Ocean River Institute. Rob talks about his experiences as a sailor, his first encounter with a right whale and how it changed his life, and the work and meaning of Ocean River. We discuss ocean planning, the fate of whales and how what you put on your lawn could impact marine wildlife. He also explains how he has fun working with politicians to make them into ocean champions.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue F...
2023-05-2227 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #82 – Chad Nelson is a SurfriderToday we’re talking with Chad Nelsen, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation. Raised by the beach in southern California, Chad was a lifeguard and student of coastal science before connecting with Surfrider, the grassroots organization committed to protecting the world’s ocean, waves and beaches. With more than 50,000 members including surfers and other ocean lovers and campaigns ranging from protecting surf breaks to fighting plastic pollution, climate disruption and working for diversity and equity in the sport, Chad has faith that bottom-up change can still turn the tide. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hoste...
2023-05-0828 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #81 - Sequoias of the SeaToday we’re talking with Natasha Benjamin: Filmmaker, marine scientist, diver, surfer, Communications Director for Marine Applied Research & Exploration, and, oh yes, Associate Director at Blue Frontier. Natasha is now working on a documentary film project – Sequoias of the Sea - covering the collapse of 95% of northern California’s Kelp Forest and its impact on a fishing community where the fishermen, divers, scientists and environmentalists have all begun to collaborate to try and restore the kelp forest that they all value and depend on. Dive in with us. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted...
2023-04-2428 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #80 - A Historic Ocean Treaty!Join us as we talk with Greenpeace Ocean Campaign Director JohnHocevar. John, who has piloted small submarines in the Arctic andAntarctic, talks about the new and historic High Seas Treaty thatsome 190 nations agreed to in March.It represents a 20-year battle to protect two thirds of the ocean orbasically half the planet by allowing for the establishment of vastmarine protected areas for ocean wildlife and habitats includingthe deep ocean.So take...
2023-04-1028 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #79 - Healthier than Fish Oil!In our next episode we speak with Andrew Hebard, president and CEO of Nature’s Crops International about how plant products rich in omega oils can improve your body, health and mind without damaging the ocean.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!Learn more...
2023-03-2727 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #78 - Linda Behnken is Fishing for the FutureThis week we talk with Linda Behnken, Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association. Linda has fished commercially for over 40 years. An outspoken advocate for her state’s fishing communities and the marine environment they depend on, she has led fights against industrial scale trawl net fishing and for climate change action and adaptation. We’ll discuss safety at sea, the threat of gold mining and widespread logging and her many other efforts to turn the tide. This episode will really hook you.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's...
2023-03-1328 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #77 - Kramer Wimberley is Diving with a PurposeThis week we talk with Kramer Wimberley lead dive instructor and board member of DWP – Diving With a Purpose. Through citizen science DWP is a leading force in identifying, surveying and documenting shipwrecks from the Atlantic Slave Trade and honoring the people who were lost to it. Kramer, along with his underwater archeology work also leads DWP’s youth program restoring coral reefs in Florida, bringing a new generation of African American and other young divers into the struggle for a better future for humanity and the sea. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted...
2023-02-2727 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #76 - David Shiffman’s SharksThis week we talk with David Shiffman, a marine biologist with Arizona State University, and fun science communicator who speaks with wit and knowledge about sharks and the ocean, their evolution, strange and varied reproductive strategies and the politics of conserving them. Hearing from a shark expert like Shiffman is its own kind of thrill. So dive in with us on this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean podcast. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information...
2023-02-1327 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #75 – Francis Lean and The Roatan Marine ParkThis week we talk with Francis Lean Bu, the Executive Director of the Roatan Marine Park one of the jewels of the Mesoamerican reef off the north coast of Honduras. Along with the wonders of her island’s reef life we also learn about ongoing battles with stony coral tissue disease (divers applying antibiotics to the living reef), a training program to hunt lionfish (first you shoot the coconut) and the challenges of balancing tourist development, climate change and hope. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland...
2023-01-3027 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #74 - Up Against the Wall OceansThis week we talk with Tre Packard: art curator, diver and Executive Director of the PangaeSeed Foundation that includes the ‘Sea Walls – Artists for the Oceans’ program. ‘Sea Walls’ has involved hundreds of artists creating over 500 large ocean-themed murals in 19 nations. Tre talks about the role of art in marine conservation, their first mural project and its impact on a Mexican island (and on the artists who swam with whale sharks), also more challenging projects including in the ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World.’ So join us for a fascinating discussion.Rising Tide, th...
2023-01-1629 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #73 Mariner Nick Landon’s life at seaThis week on Rising Tide I talk with Nick Landon, a young mariner who decided to turn his love for the ocean into a career. Nick tells us about his four years at the California Maritime Academy, his day-to-day activities as a third mate aboard an oil tanker, the ship’s time in Dry Dock in the Bahamas and more. We discuss environmental changes taking place in the fleet, marine wildlife he’s spotted and what he tells high school students about the advantages of a life at sea.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co...
2023-01-0228 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #72 – Carleen Lyden Walker’s Maritime Industry VisionA co-founder and Executive Director of the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA), Carleen Lyden Walker talks to us about the challenges of transitioning the world’s shipping industry into an ocean and climate friendly sector of the blue economy. Among key issues we discuss are public education about ports and shipping, decarbonizing the global fleet of 90,000 plus large vessels, dealing with whale strikes and offshore pollution and what it means to be a woman leader in a historically male industry. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Fr...
2022-12-1934 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #71 – NOAA’s Rick Spinrad works from the Sun to the SeaUndersecretary of Commerce Dr. Rick Spinrad, Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) talks with us about his responsibilities from the surface of the sun to the bottom of the sea. He discusses NOAA’s varied resources and people working for our public seas plus ongoing challenges including sea level rise, overfishing and ocean acidification. We also discuss its billions in new Infrastructure and climate funding and how he came out of retirement for “the best job in the world.”Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the In...
2022-12-0542 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #70 – “Who hears the Fishes When they Cry?” Carrie Wall!Henry David Thoreau asked the question in an 1849 book. Actually, fish are more likely to hum and croak according to Dr. Carrie Wall, NOAA Fisheries Acoustic Archivist at the University of Colorado. Carrie not only studies and collects the sounds of fish - she knows how to imitate them. In our version of NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ we learn about ocean acoustics, human caused ocean noise and how there are still some areas of ocean quiet. So enjoy our conversation with Dr. Wall. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Fron...
2022-11-2128 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #69 – Alexandra Morton vs. the Salmon FarmsIn this episode we talk with Alexandra Morton, who’s been called the Jane Goodall of Canada. After spending years studying the language of resident Orcas along a remote stretch of British Columbia she turned her attention to the salmon farms that displaced the Orcas and harmed the wild salmon they feed on. Morton discusses Orcas, her decades long fight with the industry and ultimately how she –with Indigenous first nations - helped shut down the industrial fish farms. Plus she imitates what Orcas sound like when they’re talking. Rising Tide...
2022-11-0733 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #68 – Capt. Paul Watson’s New CommandIn this episode we talk to leading ocean warrior Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. We talk about his background fighting for beavers, seals and whales and his recent break up with Sea Shepherd over its purpose and direction. We also discuss his new Paul Watson Foundation, his biocentric religion, phytoplankton and the planet and how his time at the siege of Wounded Knee taught him not to fear for the future. Join us for this very special episode.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by...
2022-10-2428 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #67 - Sherman’s 2 Years Before the MastIn this episode we reconnect with our friend 'Sherman’s Lagoon' creator Jim Toomey to talk about his new book, ‘Family Afloat – Two Years Sailing the World with Two Kids and Two Captains.’ Along with a bit of history of his popular shark-based cartoon strip, Jim shares some of the rollicking, inspiring and even frightening moments he and his family (and two hamsters) experienced sailing the Med, the Caribbean and crossing the Atlantic. It’s a whale of a tale that of course includes a whale encounter.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontie...
2022-10-1029 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #67 - Sherman’s 2 Years Before the MastIn this episode we reconnect with our friend 'Sherman’s Lagoon' creator Jim Toomey to talk about his new book, ‘Family Afloat – Two Years Sailing the World with Two Kids and Two Captains.’ Along with a bit of history of his popular shark-based cartoon strip, Jim shares some of the rollicking, inspiring and even frightening moments he and his family (and two hamsters) experienced sailing the Med, the Caribbean and crossing the Atlantic. It’s a whale of a tale that of course includes a whale encounter.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontie...
2022-10-1029 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #66 - Nancy Knowlton’s Ocean OptimismIn this episode David talks with renowned marine scientist Dr. Nancy Knowlton about her background, her work on coral reefs and her launching of a multi-disciplinary, solution oriented marine program at Scripps. She also talks about her expanding work on ocean and earth optimism at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and why that’s not an oxymoron but a starting point. This and more on restoration and realism makes for an engaging and, dare we say, hopeful segment. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean...
2022-09-2632 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #65 – Oysters in a Troubled BayIn this episode we have a hopeful but challenging talk with Linda Hunter, founder and director of the Wild Oyster Project that’s working to restore San Francisco Bay’s once abundant oyster reefs. Linda tells us why oysters are “working class heroes” keeping estuary ecosystems healthy. We discuss the major fish-killing Algal Bloom now occurring in the bay and how her oysters are faring, plus discuss the community volunteers working to restore SF bay oysters. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coali...
2022-09-1228 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #64 – Isabella Kirkland’s Art of NatureIn our conversation with artist Isabella Kirkland we talk about her detailed paintings of biodiversity both terrestrial and ocean-based and the exacting research that goes into her beautiful works. The late biologist and author EO Wilson called her works “classic in the original and best sense of the word.” Join us in a lively informative talk as we discuss nudibranchs large and small, what inspired her to do a portrait of squat lobsters and why she finds shrimp hard to paint. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland O...
2022-08-2927 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #63 – Ocean Crime Buster Ian RalbyIn this episode we talk with Dr. Ian Ralby founder and CEO of I.R. Consilium, a firm that consults with law-enforcement and navies around the world on maritime law and security issues. As a logical follow up to our last talk with Undersecretary of State Monica Medina we’ll discuss Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing and strategies to defeat it, piracy and armed security at sea, oil dumping, seaborne criminal intelligence and the growing role of China in the maritime sphere. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue...
2022-08-1527 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #62 – The Assistant Secretary of State for OceansIn this extended 40-minute episode we talk with Monica Medina, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. As a lawyer, former army officer and past official with the Department of Defense, U.S. Senate, NOAA and others, she now represents the United States on a range of international issues. We’ll cover a number of them including illegal fishing, plastic pollution, deep-sea mining, coral restoration, the impact of the war in Ukraine on blue diplomacy and more. Listen, learn and gain some hope.Rising Tide, the Oc...
2022-08-0140 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #62 - Dive in with Assistant Secretary of State for OceansThis week we’re honored to be speaking with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Monica Medina. Before winning Senate confirmation to this position last year Assistant Secretary Medina, a veteran of Georgetown, Columbia Law School and the U.S. Army helped link ocean policy and security issues as a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, General counsel at NOAA, a Senior Counsel to a U.S. Senator, a professor, environmental news publisher even an ocean policy director for National Geographic among other jobs.Ri...
2022-08-0140 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #61 – Carl Safina listens to the animalsIn our latest episode David talks with marine ecologist, acclaimed ocean and wildlife author and MacArthur “genius” fellow Carl Safina about his earliest connections with the sea, also his life’s journey, conservation work and writing methods. You’ll learn how defending tuna evolved into his seminal book, ‘Song for the Blue Ocean,’ and his connections to eels, owls and his recent best seller, ‘Becoming Wild – How animal cultures raise families, create beauty and achieve peace.’ Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. T...
2022-07-1731 min
Our Epic OceanDavid Helvarg - Journalist. Author. Founder & Executive Director of Blue Frontier Campaign. | EP 34David Helvarg is the Founder and Executive Director of Blue Frontier Campaign, a collaborative movement committed to healthy coastlines and a thriving ocean. The prolific author of 6 books, including Blue Frontier, Saved by the Sea and 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, he is also the organizer of the Blue Vision Summits and Peter Benchley Ocean Awards. He’s traveled the world as a journalist and correspondent, producing over 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS and Discovery. His print work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, Smithsonian, NatGeo and Popular Science Magazine. Helvarg is also an active body surfe...
2022-07-071h 18Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #60 – In Depth with Farah ObaidullahIn this episode we talk with Farah Obaidullah about her life traveling our ocean planet, her years as Senior Oceans Campaigner with Greenpeace and her founding of Women4Oceans bringing gender justice and equity to the ocean community. We also discuss her work as a leading figure in the global fight for a moratorium on deep-sea mining and how that battle’s proceeding. So, lots to cover and well worth the listen. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you in...
2022-07-0434 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #59 – Going Deep with Explorer Don WalshIn our latest episode we talk with Ocean and Polar Explorer Don Walsh. A Retired Navy Submariner, as a young Captain he and Jacque Picard became the first 2 humans to reach the deepest part of the ocean – 7 miles down in the Challenger Deep aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste. He talks about their journey and a near disaster, why ocean exploration didn’t go on to compete with the space race and today’s new generation of deep ocean explorers. Don also gives his unvarnished take on proposed deep-sea mining and the failure of the UN...
2022-06-1635 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #58 – Engineering Climate RestorationIn our latest episode we talk with Peter Fiekowsky, an MIT trained physicist and engineer who has worked at NASA, on Artificial Intelligence, as an inventor, entrepreneur and more. He’s now authored, ‘Climate Restoration – The only future that will sustain the human race.” We discuss 4 key ideals and technologies he believes can help bring down excess CO2 in the atmosphere generated by the burning fossil fuel and other human activities. Among his more controversial ideas is seeding the ocean with iron pellets. Enjoy this lively and engaging conversation.Rising Tide, the Oce...
2022-05-3031 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #57 – Fabien Cousteau In DepthWe speak with Fabien Cousteau, third generation ocean explorer and documentary producer. Along with talking about his life and adventures – including in a one-man sub disguised as a white shark - we learn about his newest project. Having lived 31 days underwater doing science and education in an aging habitat off Key Largo, he’s now working to build a larger “international space station for the ocean,” to be located in the Caribbean and carry out the next generation of marine science and conservation. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and...
2022-05-1639 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #56 – A “Kelp Princess” dives into its recoveryIn this episode we speak with Francesca Koe, Board Member of the Greater Farallones Association of California. She’ll talk about how she became a dive instructor and free diver and her love of the kelp forest that got her nicknamed ‘Kelp princess.’ Unfortunately kelp is the new coral in terms of being endangered. With 95 percent of northern California’s kelp forest gone Francesca is now playing a central role in efforts to restore it, and shares the who, what, when and why with us.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's...
2022-05-0231 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #55 – Hilton Kelley’s Mission for Gulf JusticeWe hear from activist Hilton Kelley. Raised in the segregated west side African-American community of Port Arthur Texas, the most polluted coastal town in America, he went on to join the Navy and become a successful actor. But at 39 he returned to help restore his community and fight pollution becoming a leading environmental warrior, winning battles around air pollution, PCB incineration and the Keystone pipeline. Along with recalling oil spills he recites a poem that was key to his success, ‘My True History.’ Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and...
2022-04-1827 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #54 – Evolution and Devolution with Les KaufmanWe talk with Marine evolutionary biologist Les Kaufman about his decades of study of ocean and freshwater fish, coral reefs, human behavior and natural systems and the possibility of restoration and hope for heavily polluted and climate-impacted ecosystems from Florida’s coral reefs to Africa’s massive Lake Victoria. Plus he used to teach our Blue Frontier Associate Director Natasha Benjamin who joins us for this conversation. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivatio...
2022-04-0440 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #53 – A Wahine Surfs for ChangeWe talk with Wahine Project director Dionne Ybarra who, raised in an inland Mexican American Farm worker family, discovered surfing at 38. Stoked but concerned the sport did not have a lot of people like her, she launched the Wahine – surfer girl – Project that has taught thousands of young girls - and some boys and adults - from Monterey to Mexico to Gaza and beyond how to overcome their fears and surf for themselves and the Ocean. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichol...
2022-03-2134 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #52 – Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science and FictionWe talk with world-renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson about his life and his novels, including his last, ‘The Ministry for the Future’ that’s been widely hailed as both a riveting story and a plan for how we survive and transcend the climate emergency. We also talk about Ocean themes in his works from New York to California to light years beyond earth, plus his bodysurfing and his non-fiction memoir of years hiking the Sierras. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nic...
2022-03-0638 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #51 - Blue Frontier Turns 20David and Vicki are joined by Wendy Benchley and Margo Pellegrino, both previous podcast guests and both fellow veterans of Blue Frontier, the ocean conservation group that works to give people who care about the Ocean the tools needed to protect their communities both human and wild. The four discuss two decades of Blue Vision Summits, Benchley awards, ocean adventures, marches, celebrations and mobilizations, including to link Ocean and climate solutions. And of course many media projects like Rising Tide. Listen and Enjoy. It’s a birthday party.Rising Tide, the Oc...
2022-02-2141 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #50 The Scientist, Sunscreen and Dead ReefsFor our 50th episode we talk with Dr. Craig Downs, the Hawaiian scientist who discovered and popularized the threat petrochemical-based sunscreens and other skin care products pose to coral reefs, fish and additional marine wildlife. Along with the role of Oreo cookies in his discovery, he talks about the ‘zombification' of reefs and fish exposed to chemicals in sunscreens, what’s being done to address the issue and how you can protect yourself from the sun without killing the Ocean.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland...
2022-02-0634 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #49 - Maria Brown’s California GalapagosWe talk with NOAA’s Superintendent of the Greater Farallones and Cordell Banks Marine Sanctuaries off California, some of the most productive waters in the world. While she “loves the white sharks” for which the Farallones are famous, comparing one to “a school bus swimming by,” she doesn’t want anyone to forget the other fish, whales, deep sea corals, sea lions, seabirds, even an aircraft carrier that was scuttled there. Learn more about the challenges and wonders of one of California and the world’s ocean treasures from its most enthusiastic steward. Rising Tide, the Ocean...
2022-01-2442 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #48 - Brian Tissot’s Life on the EdgeSurfer scientist, writer and long-time Northern California marine lab director Brian Tissot talks with us about the state of California’s declining kelp forests, his years studying endangered tropical corals and more. More includes what he’s taught and learned from the upcoming generation of marine science students in his Trinidad CA. lab, his science-based science fiction, and what it’s like surfing the cold waters of the North Pacific after years in Hawaii’s breakers.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-G...
2022-01-1128 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #48 - Brian Tissot’s Life on the EdgeSurfer scientist, writer and long-time Northern California marine lab director Brian Tissot talks with us about the state of California’s declining kelp forests, his years studying endangered tropical corals and more. More includes what he’s taught and learned from the upcoming generation of marine science students in his Trinidad CA. lab, his science-based science fiction, and what it’s like surfing the cold waters of the North Pacific after years in Hawaii’s breakers.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podca...
2022-01-0928 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #47 – Still an Outlaw OceanWe welcome back Ian Urbina who was on Rising Tide's first episode. The former NY Times reporter’s Outlaw Ocean series became a bestselling book and now The Outlaw Ocean Project. We discuss his latest reporting for the New Yorker magazine on how thousands of climate refugees from Africa seeking to cross the Mediterranean are being seized by Libyan Militias who also kidnapped and beat Ian while he was working on this story. We’ll also talk about lack of law enforcement at sea, the link between music and journalism and more. Rising Tide, the Ocea...
2021-12-2627 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #46 - Poseidon's BibleDive in with Chris Dixon & Jeremy Spencer the co-authors and editors of “The Ocean - the Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge,” that’s also been referred to as ‘Poseidon’s Bible’. A perfect holiday gift with illustrated sections on boating, surfing, diving, how to survive a jellyfish sting, nautical lore and more. We’ll even quiz Chris and Jeremy on what they reported and discuss everything you need to know for a life of oceanic adventure. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstei...
2021-12-1330 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #45 - “Her Deepness” and her Daughter Part TwoJoin us in PART TWO of our Rising Tide conversation with “Her Deepness” National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earl and her daughter and President of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) marine technology company, Liz Taylor. In this second part we will hear about the climate, the carbon cycle and how we will turn the tide in ocean policy and conservation. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few lau...
2021-11-2823 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastTen4OceanRising Tide is a project of Blue Frontier founded by host David Helvarg. Co-host Vicki Nichols-Goldstein is founder of the Inland Ocean Coalition. In this special 20-minute episode we talk with Michael Stocker, Daniela Huson, Wallace J. Nichols and Mary Crowley, leaders of three other groups who’ve joined with us in Ten4Ocean, the unique funding collaboration sea starring ten highly effective grassroots blue groups. If you are not attending the Climate Summit in Glasgow learn about a way you can still make a difference and a splash for our blue planet by supporting Ten4Ocean.org
2021-11-1119 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #43 - “Her Deepness” and her DaughterJoin us in part one of our two part Rising Tide conversation with “Her Deepness” National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earl and her daughter and President of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) marine technology company, Liz Taylor. In this initial talk they’ll discuss how their relationship evolved from parental to professional partnering in ocean exploration, some of the new challenges they see including deep-sea mining and how the generations of her family give Sylvia hope for the future. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inla...
2021-10-3126 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #42 - Fiction for the SeaIf you missed our Writers For the Sea: Fiction For the Sea, we're offering the full panel discussion on this week's podcast. Join us as our host David Helvarg dives into the creative minds of New York Times best-selling author Lisa See and syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, discussing their incredible ocean fiction, and their paths of how they got to where they are today.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along wi...
2021-10-181h 01Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #41 – Andres Soto’s Richmond & Point MolateWe open season two of Rising Tide talking with Andres Soto, community organizer for Citizens for a Better Environment, multi-talented musician (that’s him on Sax) and steering committee member of Richmond, California’s Point Molate Alliance. Andres will introduce you to the diverse shoreline city of Richmond where Rising Tide is based and where he was raised. His insights into local history, organizing, social justice and the fight to keep the last undeveloped natural headland on San Francisco Bay in public hands will leave you inspired. Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Fr...
2021-10-0329 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #40 – Cynthia Barnett’s Ocean of Sea ShellsIf you missed her on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ hear our friend Author and Journalist Cynthia Barnett share stories from her new book ‘The Sound of the Sea – Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans’ including the role ‘feminist science’ played in nature studies and who ‘She sells seashells by the seashore’ is really all about. Also she tells us why, despite Florida’s killer red tides, rising seas and other disasters she still has hope for her native state’s future.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coal...
2021-09-2031 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #39 - Storm reporter Mark SchleifsteinThe day before Hurricane Ida devastated Louisiana, the Gulf and then the Northeast we spoke with New Orlean’s Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Mark Schleifstein (now reporting on the wake of Ida) about his experiences during Hurricane Katrina, failed levees, coastal restoration and how sea level rise and flooding will impact the future of Louisiana and the world. Listen to this timely and alarming interview about life in the Greenhouse Century.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give...
2021-09-024h 29Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #38 – Getting in the Swim with Matt MoseleyWe talk to long-distance adventure swimmer, author and activist Matt Moseley about his first-ever swims in the ocean, rivers and across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, now hit with yet another catastrophic hurricane. He explains about feeling like a fish out of water and what running out of water could mean for 40 million people across the West. Plus he offers some hope and solutions one can pursue.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with...
2021-08-3027 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #37 – Louie Psihoyos’s Ocean visionsFrom Iowa to an Oscar, Louie Psihoyos continues to engage people with his famed National Geographic photography, award-winning films including ‘The Cove’ and ‘Racing Extinction’ and projected images. His larger than life endangered species vying for our attention on the Empire State building and the Vatican and his evolving views on food and social movements are just a few of the things we discuss with him.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laugh...
2021-08-1627 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #36 – Two Sisters Taking On PlasticDianna and Julia Cohen are two of the co-founders of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. Mixing lifetimes of art and activism they talk about the challenges of plastic pollution, including countering industry propaganda about recycling. Along with ocean and human health impacts and actions we can all take, they offer insights, opportunities and solutions to take us Beyond petroleum-based Plastic Pollution.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our...
2021-08-0231 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #35 - Whale Doctor Frances GullandThis week we speak with marine mammal veterinarian and disease pioneer Dr. Frances Gulland. One of three members of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, we speak to her about her decades of unique work from treating sick sea lions to studying dead whales (while avoiding hungry white sharks) to Flipper’s future in a changing world.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and m...
2021-07-1930 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #34 - Wyland’s Art World of WaterWe talk with the renown marine life artist Wyland about his art, his life, his life-sized whaling walls, where he gets his inspiration (hint, he’s a dedicated diver), some of his adventures and the new edgier direction he’s taking his artwork balancing wonder and warning for our blue world.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The oce...
2021-07-0527 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #33 – Jeremy Jackson’s Blue World ViewJeremy Jackson, one of the world’s leading ocean ecologists, paleobiologists and conservationists talks to us about his hopes and concerns about the state of the ocean, the land and human civilization. He also tells us about his work over time, rapid climate change, coral reef migration and the kind of science needed to turn the tide.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and m...
2021-06-2124 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #32 - Ana Blanco’s Ocean FilmsJoin us in conversation with Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. We talk about the ocean in our living rooms and theaters, how documentaries and other media from Cousteau TV specials to this year’s Academy Award winning ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ help connect people to the ocean in both its wonder and its warnings. Join us to learn more about this unique film fest and some of Ana (and our) favorite ocean films.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast a...
2021-06-0724 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #31 - The Scientist and the AbaloneJoin us with Dr. Kristin Aquilino, head of the White Abalone breeding program at UC Davis marine lab in northern California. Find out how a deep-water marine snail almost got pan-fried to extinction and what she and others are doing to reintroduce it into the ocean.
After listening read David’s story on the scientist and the mollusk in Sierra Club magazine
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/abalone-edge
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you infor...
2021-05-2428 minRising Tide: The Ocean PodcastRising Tide #30 – Getting down with Mehgan Heaney-GrierAnother Rising Tide, another amazing, salty woman. This time we’re talking with Mehgan Heaney-Grier, an early record-holding free diver who helped introduce the sport to the U.S. Her latest project is the web-series the ‘Imperfect Conservationist.’ In her long ocean career she’s also been a stunt diver for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and part of the Discovery Channel explorers team for ‘Treasure Quest – Snake Island.’ Curious to hear more? Just tune in.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information...
2021-05-0919 min
Blue EarthEnvironmental Action & Activism in 2020This episode of Blue Earth is a conversation with David Helvarg, an author, journalist, and environmental activist. He is also the founder and president of the Blue Frontier Campaign.
David shares positive constructive thoughts and ideas about topics including “50 Ways To Save The Ocean”, the Ocean Climate Action Plan, why your individual vote does matter, and the relationship between the environment and racial justice.
David is a friend of Future Frogmen. Richard organized Connecticut’s delegation at David’s last Blue Vision Summit held in Washington D.C., which included most state’s delegations meeting wi...
2020-07-1347 min
LabOratory PodcastLab Entry #10 : Ocean Sciences 2020 Episode 1!A Special LabOratory Episode Highlighting the 2020 AGU Ocean Sciences Conference! In this episode we feature interviews from a variety of participants at the Ocean Sciences 2020 Conference in San Diego. We interview a number of Artist/Scientists that attended the conference as well as a diverse group of individuals who represented a wide array of ocean based companies featured at the Exhibit Hall during the conference. Introduction By David Helvarg of the Blue Frontier CampaignArtist/Scientists : Laura GuertinFernanda X. OyarzunDrew HarvellTim LuekerExhibit Organizations:Sean...
2020-04-181h 00Rising Tide: The Ocean PodcastBlue Frontier Rising Tide Pilot EpisodeWelcome to Blue Frontier's new podcast, Rising Tide, hosted by Blue Frontier's Executive Director, David Helvarg. You will meet today's ocean champions, including senators, scientists, surfers, and youth activists. We will cover a range of issues, including climate change, overfishing, and plastic pollution. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
2020-02-2004 min
I Don't Speak GermanEpisode 39: Matt Shea and White Supremacy in the Pacific North West (with Jason Wilson)To round off our first year, Daniel is joined by special guest Jason Wilson to talk about the fascinating figure Representative Matt Shea. Hopefully this edition will please those listeners who've been asking for longer episodes! Content Warning. Notes and links (thanks to Jason for this compilation): Kenneth S Stern (1997) A force upon the plain : the American militia movement and the politics of hate. https://www.worldcat.org/title/force-upon-the-plain-the-american-militia-movement-and-the-politics-of-hate/oclc/1002393469&referer=brief_results Kathleen Belew (2019) Bring the war home the white power movement and paramilitary America https://www.worldcat.org...
2019-12-302h 47
Ralph Nader Radio HourTrumpcare Fiasco/Logic For The LeftMedicare For All advocate, Dr. John Geyman, rejoins us to discuss his latest book “Struggling and Dying Under Trumpcare: How We Fix This Fiasco.” And philosophy professor Ben Burgis explains how to “Give Them an Argument: Logic For The Left.” Plus, David Helvarg comes on in the Wrap Up to explain how he’s “Putting The Blue in the Green New Deal.” Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2019-06-011h 18
Health Matters Sonoma09 - 24 - 15 Author David HelvargDavid Helvarg is an author and Executive Director of Blue Frontier, an ocean conservation and policy group (www.bluefront.org). He has written six books, Blue Frontier (now available on Kindle), The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, Saved by the Sea and The Golden Shore. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthmatters.substack.com
2018-03-0256 min
Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors | Sustainability, Green Business, ConservationEpisode 18: Danni Washington, Nature Knows Best + Big Blue & YouProud eco-geek and science communicator Danni Washington is making waves with her non-profit work and as the host of her own Fox-syndicated television show Nature Knows Best. She also founded her own non-profit called Big Blue and You and puts on a yearly event called ArtSea in Miami.Wanting to bridge the gap between scientists and every day citizens, Danni embarked on a wild adventure that has taken her from recording videos for text books, to YouTube and winning a contest led by clothing brand Roxy, and onto being the star of her own tv show....
2018-02-1928 min
Eco-Warriors Podcast | Sustainability, Environmentalism, ConservationMarine conservation education with Danni Washington @ Nature Knows Best and Big Blue & YouProud eco-geek and science communicator Danni Washington is making waves with her non-profit work and as the host of her own Fox-syndicated television show Nature Knows Best. She also founded her own non-profit called Big Blue and You and puts on a yearly event called ArtSea in Miami.
Wanting to bridge the gap between scientists and every day citizens, Danni embarked on a wild adventure that has taken her from recording videos for text books, to YouTube and winning a contest led by clothing brand Roxy, and onto being the star of her own tv show.
2018-02-1928 min
Ralph Nader Radio HourMarch for the Ocean!/Basic IncomeRalph welcomes back ocean conservationist David Helvarg, who talks about offshore oil drilling and June 9th’s March for the Ocean and Steven Shafarman, author of Basic Income Imperative: For Peace, Justice, Liberty and Personal Dignity. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2018-01-201h 05
Ralph Nader Radio HourTrumpologyIn a busy show, tax expert and Trumpologist, David Cay Johnston joins us to discuss the President-elect’s fitness for office, the “Deal Professor” Steven Davidoff Solomon unveils corporate shenanigans in Silicon Valley, and ocean conservationist, David Helvarg, tells us how Marco Rubio and Rick Scott deny climate change while their state of Florida sinks. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2017-01-1457 min
Ocean Allison PodcastDavid Helvarg: Executive Director of Blue FrontierDavid is an award-winning journalist and author, having written six books on a range of topics relating to our blue planet, including 50 Ways to Save the Ocean and his latest book The Golden Shore.
Hear David's perspectives on ocean policy and change, as he's always on the front lines, getting the ocean recognized in the political arena, with his marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier.
Visit the Blue Frontier website: https://bluefront.org/
Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Helvarg
Find David's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/David-Helvarg/e/B001K7PU34/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1...
2016-10-1800 min
Ralph Nader Radio HourThe Best of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour!In this episode, we present highlights of Ralph’s conversations with activists Lois Gibbs, David Helvarg, and Anna Myers, journalists Jim Naureckas and Bill Curry, and scholars Gar Alperovitz and Paul Pillar. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2016-05-2957 min
Ralph Nader Radio HourArno J. Mayer, David HelvargRalph discusses the history of Zionism in Israel, the nature of empire, and also France’s response to terrorism with distinguished Princeton University historian Arno J. Mayer. And ocean conservationist, David Helvarg, of Blue Frontier returns to tell us all about his latest bipartisan campaign to end offshore oil drilling called The Sea Party Coalition. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2015-11-2257 min
Relationships 2.0 With Dr. Michelle SkeenGuest: David Helvarg author of Saved By The Sea: Hope, Heartbreak and Wonder in the Blue WorldAbout the book:
Acclaimed as “the premier chronicler of America’s complex relationship with our oceans” (Honolulu Weekly), David Helvarg has also been a war correspondent, investigative journalist, documentary producer, and private investigator. The one constant in his adventurous life has been love for the sea. His personal story of love, loss, and redemption, Saved by the Sea is also a profound, startling, and sometimes funny reflection on the state of our seas and the intimate ways in which our lives are linked to the natural world around us.
About the author:
David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campai...
2015-09-2354 min
Ralph Nader Radio HourDavid Helvarg, Ray RogersThis week, Ralph talks sharks to ocean activist David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and talks coke to corporate nemesis Ray Rogers and his Campaign to Stop Killer Coke. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2015-05-1057 min
KGNU - How On EarthSage Grouse Saga // Ocean HealthMale greater sage grouse courting females on a lek.Photo credit: US Fish & Wildlife Service
Sage Grouse Saga (start time: 4:04): One of the most spectacular and flamboyant rites of spring is, arguably, the mating ritual of a the greater sage grouse, a chicken-like bird with a long tail, with spiky tail feathers. Its historic range spans 11 Western states, including Colorado. But that sagebrush-dominated habitat has been chopped up and degraded by oil and gas development, mining operations, cattle grazing and even wind farms–causing grouse populations to plunge. Since 2010 the bird has waited for a milestone dec...
2015-04-2924 min
Lecture Archive 2013Lecture Archive: David HelvargLecture date: February 28, 2013. Author David Helvarg shared the history, culture, and changing nature of California’s coasts and ocean.
2013-08-0100 min
The 7th Avenue ProjectJournalist and Ocean Activist David HelvargThis radio program mostly ignores the large body of water that sits only a short block from our studio. Inexcusable, I know, but it's not too late to make amends. For a start, I spoke to David Helvarg, marine conservationist, head of the Blue Frontier Campaign and author of "The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea." We talked about David's own love affair with the sea as well as his earlier career as a war correspondent in Central America. Also, a history of beachgoing, the popularization of surfing, the future of the California coastline and a defense of...
2013-03-1000 min
Conservation Vol. 2David HelvargAquacast recorded on February 28, 2013. Author David Helvarg shares the history, culture, and changing nature of California’s coasts and ocean.
2013-03-0202 minConservation Vol. 2David HelvargDavid Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of five books: The War Against the Greens, Blue Frontier, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, and Saved by the Sea. An award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others.
2010-11-1503 min
Marine Biology Vol. 1David HelvargDavid Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of five books: The War Against the Greens, Blue Frontier, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, and Saved by the Sea. An award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others.
2010-11-1500 min
The Ocean Doctor - David Guggenheim PhDThe Ocean Doctor – DISASTER, DISPERSANTS & DECEPTION IN THE GULF OF MEXICOThe Administration claims the “vast majority” of the oil is “gone.” But the latest studies and Congressional hearings say otherwise. How safe is Gulf seafood? What does the future hold? The Ocean Doctor continues the work of unspinning the spin. This week’s guest: David Helvarg, president of the Blue Frontier Campaign, author of, “Saved by the Sea,” leader of the Seaweed Rebellion.
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2010-08-231h 09
KEXP Presents Mind Over Matters Sustainability SegmentSustainability Segment: David HelvargGuest David Helvarg, President of the Blue Frontier Campaign, and author of "50 Ways to Save the Ocean" and "The Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness" speaks with Diane Horn about ocean protection.
2006-11-2728 min
DiveFilm Podcast VideoDiveFilm Episode18 - "50 Ways To Save The Ocean"Author David Helvarg discusses his latest book, "50 Ways To Save The Ocean," at a recent event at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to kick off festivities celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Scripps Center for Marine Diversity & Conservation (CMBC). Helvarg shares hope and practical suggestions for making a difference in the future of the ocean and the conservation of marine life. Digital video by Mary Lynn Price.
To learn more about the Blue Frontier Campaign and the Seaweed Rebellion, visit BlueFront.org. To learn more about the 5th Anniversary and work of Scripps Center for Marine Diversity...
2006-05-0700 min