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Future 500 + Mission Blue Unite To Preserve Oceans

At Future 500, stakeholder engagement is a fundamental belief and the key to our success. Our mission is to engage and align diverse stakeholders in multiple sectors to achieve systemic solutions to urgent global issues—including major threats to our oceans and coasts.
Want to learn more about stakeholder engagement? Check out our animated video below:

Did you know 5-14 million tons of plastic enter our ocean each year from land-based sources? By 2025, for every three tons of finfish swimming in the ocean, there could be one ton of plastic in marine waters as well. Our team of social responsibility advocates work with brands, retailers and NGOs alike on one of the greatest challenges facing our ocean— plastic pollution.
Through this work, we’ve engaged over 200 stakeholders on this issue.…

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Dive into the Underwater World of Coral Reefs with the New Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum

Mission Blue is proud to announce a partnership with the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation to bring marine science education to students around the world through the Foundation’s new Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum. This custom-built online platform contains educational videos, interactive exercises and games designed to educate people about life on coral reefs. It is free to anyone with an internet connection. Try it now to be one of the first people to get full access to this state-of-the-art educational resource.
‘Our curriculum provides an exciting opportunity for students, teachers, and the general public to explore the natural world of coral reefs’ says Amy Heemsoth, Director of Education at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
The Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum uses marine science, conservation, and coral reefs as examples to teach broad themes relating to the natural world and our environment.…

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Fresh Perspectives on Aquariums and the Life Within

A response by Melanie Knight to Sylvia Earle’s Twenty-First Century Aquariums and Zoos: Windows into the Wild
SCUBA divers are lucky. They have the unique opportunity to breathe beneath the surface and see the ocean and its inhabitants at eye level.
Unfortunately, much of the world’s human population is surface-bound as they can’t swim or have health limitations, some kind of phobia or just can’t prioritize the costs.
As much as diving is the ultimate immersive experience, aquariums have long been the most accessible way to experience the ocean without getting wet. But aquariums are changing. They are no longer just for big cities with big animals.
Love at first glance
My first memory of marine life was when I went face-to-face with a sea star, in as much as it is possible to determine if a sea star even has a face.…

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9th Annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards Coming Up

The 9th Annual Awards event weekend will take place May 20 – 21, 2016 in beautiful Monterey, California. 
Mission Blue founder and National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earle will be master of ceremonies for the Peter Benchley™ Ocean Awards – the world’s preeminent honors for ocean conservation that will recognize a diverse group of global leaders for 2016.

Often called the ‘Academy Awards for the Ocean,’ the Peter Benchley™ Ocean Awards will honor a diverse group of eight ocean leaders including the President of Palau, a New York Times investigative journalist, a French sailing expedition, and the Mayor of a San Diego border town.
Past winners have included four Heads of State, U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense, senators, leading marine scientists, journalists, explorers, youth leaders and citizen activists.…

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True Value of Healthy Oceans & Waterways

An open letter to world, national, political, business, union, religious, media, educational, environmental, peace, NGO and philanthropic leaders.
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It’s a familiar refrain that water covers three-fourths of the planet and provides food, jobs, energy and oxygen and is a major driver of the Blue Economy. Indeed, it’s a fact that water is the source, matrix and sustenance of life.
But just as music and art, water also makes life worth living.
“That’s where I first discovered my love for music, through the motion of water. My imagination ran wild.”
~ Musician Pharrell Williams
“There is something about being in water and swimming which alters the writer’s mood, gets his thoughts going, as nothing else can.”…

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Mission Blue And Citizens’ Climate Lobby Join Forces to Advocate for a Price on Carbon

The fundamental solution to combating ocean acidification and warming is to make a fundamental transition to a carbon-free future. Though it doesn’t have the support of the United States Congress, the most generally recognized solution is to put a price on carbon. At the Paris climate talks last December, countries around the world affirmed carbon pricing as essential. The chart below shows the countries that already embraced pricing. Unfortunately the U.S. is not one of them, and that’s because the U.S. Congress is in denial.

Mission Blue is proud to be partnering with Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL), the only NGO whose sole grassroots advocacy focus is educating Congress about the imperative for responsible Congressional action on climate. Recently, CCL volunteers in 13 districts succeeded in breaking the dam of denial by catalyzing 13 House Republicans to sign the Gibson Resolution, calling on the House to study the causes, effects and solutions to climate change.…

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The Sandwich

So many thingsyou’d not have thought ofuntil they were given.
Even the simple—a cottage cheese sandwich,a heron’s contractable neck.
You eat. You look.Then you look back and it’s over.
This life. This flood—unbargained for as lasting love was—of lasting oddness.

My Sandwich by Jane Hirshfield 
Maybe it was because after giving up eating sea food…
Seafood indeed! — Not that we don’t love it in all it’s iterations: sushi, canned, scallops quick-fried in butter, oysters, chowder, even gefilte fish, but—For God’s sake!! Its sea life not sea food, as our friend Sylvia Earle calls it — who encouraged us to give up eating things that come out of the water; to give the ocean a break. We’d sooner eat a rabbit than a halibut.…

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Innovative Technology Fights Wildlife Crime

The illegal wildlife trade is a $20B black market based on corruption—a global crisis that pops up in news headlines with heartbreaking stories of endangered species being poached and confiscated at customs. These activities are driving species of elephants, rhinos, tigers, pangolins, turtles, parrots and others towards extinction. Rhino poaching has increased by 9,000% since 2007; 100,000 elephants were killed in just three years; and the tiger population has decreased by 40 percent in the last decade. Our partners at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge (WCTC), a partnership with National Geographic, Smithsonian, and TRAFFIC, is finding solutions to this global crisis through innovative science and technology.
Corruption is the key enabler of wildlife trafficking, creating illegal supply chains and fueling criminal networks that devastate vulnerable species and harm livelihoods.…

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Sculptural sea creatures invade the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

COURTNEY MATTISON: SEA CHANGE
january 30 — april 17, 2016virginia museum of contemporary art • 2200 parks ave • virginia beach • va • 23451
Hundreds of intricately hand-sculpted ceramic marine invertebrates currently inhabit the main gallery of Virginia MOCA, comprising two large wall installations and 11 sculptural works that explore the fragile beauty of ocean ecosystems and the human caused threats they face — especially the impacts of our greenhouse gas emissions on coral reefs — in a solo show by Courtney Mattison, a self-described ocean “artivist” (artist/activist) and part of the Mission Blue team.

aqueduct
What if climate change causes tropical sea creatures to migrate towards the poles and invade terrestrial spaces as seawater warms and sea levels rise?…

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Bringing Ocean Science into the Classroom

Here’s a word from Mission Blue’s fabulous new partners, Ocean First Education!

Ocean First Education and Mission Blue share a passion for educating the public about the criticality of the ocean and a vision for developing greater respect for it. Because of this shared passion and vision, Ocean First Education has joined Mission Blue as an affiliate partner.

We are all connected to the ocean, no matter where we live. Ocean First Education teaches that connection through our online marine science education courses. Our innovative, interactive curricula bring the ocean to life for middle school to adult learners, regardless of where they live, and teach students how the ocean impacts the entire planet.
According to National Geographic, the ocean generates 70 percent of the oxygen in the air and absorbs much of the carbon dioxide.…

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