The news is grim: overfishing, pollution, coral reefs in trouble. But around the world, unsung heroes – scientists, conservationists, local communities – are hard at work inventing and implementing solutions. Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina is not just another doom and gloom TV show; it’s about people solving problems. Saving the Ocean’s 10 half-hour [...]
On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary, Orion asked thirty writers and thinkers to name one thing we will increasingly need over the next thirty years if humans are going to find a way to live happily, sustainably, redeemably on earth. Carl contributed an essay on energy future. He wrote, “Big Energy has left us [...]
The BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Event, a 7-day festival showcasing the world’s finest ocean films and award winning marine photography selected Carl Safina’s Saving the Ocean: The Sacred Island episode as a finalist in the Innovations and Solutions category. Airing on PBS, Safina’s Saving the Ocean series chronicles the unsung heroes who are [...]
Grand Turtles of Grand Riviere Grand Riviere, on Trinidad’s northeast coast, is a narrow strip of shoreline backed by mountainous emerald jungle that tumbles to the broad sea. Almost as soon as the sun goes down, dark shapes dot the gleaming surf. And you realize those shapes are big, and they’re moving up the beach. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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