Two Minutes on Oceans: Blue Carbon

June 9, 2012

Famed cartoonist Jim Toomey is best known for his comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon, which stars a lazy great white shark named Sherman and his undersea pals.

Recently Jim Toomey teamed up with the United Nations Environment Programme to create a series of six two-minute videos intended to raise awareness of the importance of oceans and the coastal environment.

We are pleased to present the first video in the series, “Two Minutes on Oceans: Blue Carbon” here.

The video was launched on World Oceans Day, June 8th, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as part of a special World Oceans Day presentation, “Drawing Inspiration from the sea.” The presentation included a brief talk about why Toomey writes a comic about the ocean and where he gets his ideas. Kids and Adults participated by helping Toomey create four giant murals, depicting different ocean ecosystems.

We are looking forward to the next five videos in the series.