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Bringing Ocean Conservation to the Web

By Andrew Kornblatt, co-founder of the Online Ocean Symposium
The Online Ocean Symposium is a digital forum that uses streaming video to connect and broadcast different voices from the ocean world. We have guests that speak on issues ranging from ocean acidification to plastic legislation to climate change. Each conversation is not only live-broadcast where the audience can ask questions directly of the participants, but it also is forever housed in YouTube.
For the past two years we have invited guests like Sylvia Earle, Bill McKibben, Don Walsh and most recently, Richard Branson, to discuss their work and passions as they relate to the ocean. We have hosted over 30 different Hangouts. Now the Symposium is honored to become an official partner of Mission Blue.…

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BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit kicks off today!

Here at Mission Blue we love the BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit and we couldn’t be more excited to be on the ground at BLUE 2014 this week! The festivities kick off today in St. Petersburg, FL for seven days of ocean appreciation that will include film screenings, presentations by marine conservation and film industry all-stars, special exhibitions and the “Oscars of the ocean.”
Hosted at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, BLUE draws a diverse crowd from film and TV celebrities to marine scientists and explorers to families and schoolchildren. “Ocean issues urgently need our attention and not just for the well being of future generations, but for the health of our own children,” said Debbie Kinder, Co-Founder and CEO of BLUE. …

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