A couple of weeks ago, Orion announced that my recent book, THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Picador, January 2012) was among the finalists for the 2012 Orion Book Award. On May 3 THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT was named the winner! View the announcement here. I could not [...]
Originally posted on Huffington Post on April 1, 2012. A couple of years ago, Whole Foods Market invited my not-for-profit outfit, Blue Ocean Institute, to help them inform their customers’ selections of wild-caught seafood. Whole Foods wanted to display our seafood rankings in their stores, to show customers which seafood we’d rated green (abundant and [...]
Today Javier took us to a gorgeous estuary called Estero Coyote. There’s a little tourist place here called Camp Rene that has very cheap accommodations and was almost empty when we were there. But beautiful! The fishermen here grow oysters (they’re delicious and cost about 25 cents apiece). The estuary is filled with migratory and [...]
Blog previously posted on Huffington Post on Feb 7, 2012: How naive I was to have thought, back in my relative youth, that the 1986 global ban on whaling was, well—a global ban on whaling. Whaling not only continues, it’s intensifying. Each year now, Japan, Norway, and Iceland kill about 1,600 whales (mostly Finback and [...]
Snowy Owl Photo: Carl Safina For reasons not entirely certain and yet almost certainly related to high numbers of lemmings in the Canadian Arctic during 2011, thousands of Snowy Owls are visiting the lower 48 states this winter. The phenomenon was featured on national TV on NBC news, and it has been written about in [...]
Netflix now offers Carl Safina’s PBS series Saving the Ocean. Join host Carl Safina as he chronicles the unsung heroes who are hard at work inventing and implementing solutions to save the world’s oceans. Most of us have heard about the effects overfishing, pollution and industry are having on the world’s oceans. It’s time for [...]
After a manic six months over-occupied with two book launches, perhaps a hundred interviews, and our TV show launches, this trip is mainly a rare chance to simply unwind. I’ve been invited as a guest by Bluewater Adventures owner Randy Burke and bear expert Barrie Gilbert, who in the early 1970s was “killed,” as he [...]
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