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Alison Chase and Sarah Chasis talk with Rob about “a recipe for smart ocean management that could set our oceans on track to long term health.”
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Terry Gibson, Senior Editor of Fly and Light Tackle Anglers talks with Rob about stewardship, fishing and changes he’s seen over the years.
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Lew Hastings executive director of the Boca Grande Chamber of Commerce tells of a most remarkable fish the tarpon.
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Marty Baum is alarmed by deaths of 58 manatees that followed that followed massive die-off of sea grass last summer. Pelicans are suffering like never before. More than half of the Lagoon dolphins are sick. Wildlife is weakened by nitrogen pollution and poisoned by methyl mercury produced by nitrogen fertilizer.
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Mike Joshua, WFNX rock radio host talks with Rob about Sustainable Thinking on air segments and his philosophy for saving the planet. At the time Mike had no idea that WFNX.com would be shut down by the Boston Phoenix a week later.
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Lenni Armstrong talks about two men with a passion for measuring lead in the environment and for getting it out of our bodies.
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Leesa Souto talks with Rob on how to save the ocean from nitrogen pollution.
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On this episode of Moir’s Environmental Dialogues Rob talks with Cris Costello in Florida. No one has worked harder to defeat harmful algal blooms and to stop red tide outbreaks in Florida during the last six years than has Cris Costello of the Sierra Club.
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MA state Representative Jay Kaufman talks with Rob about a new bill called the Act for Healthy Families and Businesses. Second half MA state Senator Mike Barrett talks about Concord’s ban on plastic water bottles and his reduce Styrofoam food and beverage containers bill.
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Bristol Bay Alaska fishermen Katherine Carscallen and Brett Veerhusen talk with Rob about the world’s finest salmon fishery for indigenous people, for commercial fishermen and for recreational anglers.
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Sue Reid, Vice President of Conservation Law Foundation, spoke with Rob about the actions being taken to address climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, funding of agencies, and transportation.
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Elizabeth Saunders talks with Rob about Clean Water Action’s work to prevent harm from toxic chemicals and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow.
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Laura Henze Russell was once a lifeguard and then she suffered from debilitating mercury poisoning from dental amalgam in her mouth. Laura's health has improved. At her town meeting Laura has 3 articles to pass and more.
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Mike Dunmyer of Ocean Champions talks with me about how oceans benefitted from the Nov 6 2012 National Election.
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Mike Barrett for MA State Senate talks about the
creation of the original hazardous waste super fund and the need today for Beacon Hill to pass the Safer Alternatives to Toxic Chemicals bill.
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Eric Jay Dolin talks about his newest book: When America First Met China, an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money in the age of sail.
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John Williamson, charter boat captain, former commercial fisherman, fellow member of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary talks with Rob about ocean policy planning, fisheries and seafood. Go to episode page for why Ali is pictured here and her connection to the National Ocean Council.
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Mike Dunmyer, Executive Director of Ocean Champions talks with Rob about advancing ocean conservation in Washington DC.
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George Divoky, founder of Friends of Cooper Island, talks with Rob about his work studying the Black Guillemot seabird in Arctic Alaska. Lori Wark, web producer for Friends of Cooper Island, joined the conversation to explain how to get involved in Arctic bird research.
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Erik Hoffner reports on Swedish logging practices and old growth forests.
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Michael Hopper, President of the Sea-Run Brook Trout Coalition talks with Rob about saving sea run brook trout.
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Peter Alexander, MS, Bath, Maine
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Dr. Edie Widder, ORCA, Indian River Lagoon, FL
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Chatham fisherman Darren Saletta of the Massachusetts Commercial Striped Bass Association
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Vicki Osis, marine education professor of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State U, tells how increasing acidity of the ocean destroyed oyster growing businesses in Oregon, and other deaths by ocean acidification.
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Mayor Lisa Wong takes Rob down to the Nashua River that is the reason for this New England industrial town.
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Jud Crawford, Pew Environment Group talks menhaden;
Ben Kalina, producer of the film Shored Up.
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E. K. Khalsa, Executive Director of the Mystic River Watershed Association talks about the challenges river hearing confront in the sea and in the river. He spoke on behalf of herring to the New England Fisheries Management Council and offers concrete actions one can take to save herring.
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Rob’s guests are Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Craig McDonald and John Williamson, Fisherman, New England Fisheries Management Council former member representing fishermen from two states, and now president of Stellwagen Alive.
After nineteen years of Sanctuary management and research, a proposal to close 14% of the area to fishing has been developed. Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary in its entirety has four bottom types, one third gravel, one third sand, one third mud and a bit of boulders. Subarea A, the 89 square miles to be closed (14% of 640 sq mi Sanctuary) also contains a third gravel, sand and mud plus boulders.
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Matt McKenzie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator, University of Connecticut, Avery Point and Patrick Paquette, a community organizer who represents bass fishing organizations in Massachusetts talk with Rob about where have all the herring gone and how Cape Cod has changed over two centuries from a vibrant fishing community to something completely different.
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Les Kaufman, CI and Boston University professor along with John Williamson,
president of Stellwagen Alive talk with Rob about their whale watch voyage
onto Stellwagen Bank August 5th where forage fish were running strong and
humpback whales feeding voraciously.
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Charlotte McDevitt, Executive Director of GreenVI.org, is working towards a vision of a green, clean, healthy and prosperous British Virgin Islands.
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Ed Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution (Harper Collins, May 2011).
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Leslie Cox, Hampshire College Farm Center Manager talks with Rob about cow and grass management for happier cows, healthier consumers and a greener nation. The Farm, created by Prof. Ray Coppinger, is a place where college students and faculty integrate science and alternative technology for testing sustainable farming methods. The cows are Dutch Belted, a very rare and highly esteemed breed, developed in the Netherlands in the 1600s.
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Pam Lyons Gromen, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Marine Conservation and Earthjustice’s Roger Fleming talk about where have the herring gone. When NMFS and NEFMC failed to stem the decline of sea herring, river herring and shad populations, a recreational fishing advocate, charter boat captain, and the Ocean River Institute filed suit, represented by Earthjustice.
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Molly Bolster, Executive Director of the nonprofit Gundalow Company http://www.gundalow.org and Jeff Bolster, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, talk with me about marine environmental history informing today’s ocean conservation and stewardship. We must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. According to a recent report the state of rivers and Great Bay that flow into Portsmouth NH are declining according to 11 out of 12 indicators. Molly Bolster addresses these trends by using a replica boat, modeled after the last gundalow, as an educational platform. A new gundalow is being built which poses challenges of its own. Jeff Bolster describes how skewed visions of the past have led to disastrous marine policies and why historical perspective is critical to revitalize fisheries and ecosystems. In "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer Jeff gives us new insights into ocean conservation.
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Eric Jay Dolin tells us about the history of whaling with a bit about the beginning of the whale watching industry and Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
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Citizens of Massachusetts are outraged that U.S. Senator Scott Brown has voted repeatedly to eliminate clean air legislation. Erik Blasbaugh, Acting Executive Director of the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, Ben Wright, Advocate for Environment Massachusetts, Vanessa Rule, Director, The Better Future Project and Jason Kolwaski, Policy Director, 350.org add their perspectives on the Senator's recent actions against environmental legislation.
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In a special Earth Day edition Rob spoke with Olivia Newton-John and her husband Amazon John Easterling about their work to save the Amazon Rainforest. Olivia tells why this rainforest is so important for the planet. Free iTunes podcast
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Five Native Americans describe the 2011 Mother Earth Water Walk to Wisconsin from 4 directions. The walk with copper pail of seawater has begun at Olympia, Washington, under the watchful eyes of loon and bald eagle. Walkers will gather sea water in Gulfport, Mississippi, Machias, Maine and Churchill, Manitoba and walk to Bad River, Wisconsin. Telling me of the epic endeavour are Dawnis Kennedy, Joanne Robertson (coordinator) Sharon M. Day (South), Tina (West) and Madeleine Huntjens (East).To learn more and to assist please visit http://www.motherearthwaterwalk.com or view their progress at http://emptyglassforwater.ca/map/ Click here for more information and biographies of Rob's guests.
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Carl Safina talks about, and reads from, his book The View from Lazy Point. To sail these complex and opaque waters with treacherous shores looming large to leeward, we must be more nimble in our steering and find our way with a “compass of compassion.”
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In 1979 Raffi was kissed by a beluga whale. Raffi’s original philosophy of Child Honouring: How to Turn This World Around has become, more than a book, a covenant of nine principles: Respectful Love, Diversity, Caring Community, Conscious Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Nonviolence, Safe Environments, Sustainability, & Ethical Commerce.
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Kelly Mitchell, Greenpeace Coal Campaigner and Chicago resident discusses the citizen-led efforts to shut down the Salem Harbor coal plant in Massachusetts and the Fisk and Crawford coal plants in Chicago, IL.
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Dr. George Divoky has traveled to remote Cooper Island in the Arctic for nearly 30 years. Braving the elements and the occasional polar bear, his mission is to study the Black Guillemots — seabirds closely related to the extinct Great Auk.
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Rob talks with Dr. Jamie M. Cournane about herring. Jamie mapped "hot spots" of riverherring bycatch by trawlers and seiners that target Atlantic herring. Where fish are more likely to be found during specific months of the year was charted. Fisheries managers can use this spatial/depth/time information to better manage for survival of river herring.
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Dyan deNapoli, author of the newly released book The Great Penguin Rescue, tells the remarkable story of the largest and most successful wildlife rescue ever mounted.
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Peter Thomson, Environment Editor at the public radio program The World, describes visiting the world’s deepest, oldest, and largest supply of fresh water in his new book, “Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal.”
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Vanessa Rule and Eric Becker of the Somerville Climate Action explain how one goes from rallies to taking up pick ax to de-paving an urban core.
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Eric Jay Dolin’s latest book is Fur, Fortune and Empire, an epic history of beaver, buffalo, seal and sea otter.
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Friends of Casco Bay (Portland Maine and north by east) BayKeeper Joe Payne and Associate Director Mary Cerullo say how with increasing regularity and alarming spread green algal mats are covering clam flats and gobbling up oxygen making life difficult for ground fish and ground dwellers including lobsters.
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Margo Pellegrino is paddling an outrigger canoe along the Pacific Coast to bring attention to the urgent need for ocean conservation and to address ocean health issues.
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Executive Director, EkOngKar Singh Khalsa tells us about one of the most urban and densely populated watersheds in the Commonwealth.
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Mary S Booth, PhD ecologist discusses the problems and drawbacks to rushing to biomass power without proper safe guards and respect for local environments.
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Rob talks with four New England Climate Summer Riders, who recently rode into Somerville. Margaret Fetzer-Rogers, Sara Finkle, Yingying Chen, and Bliss Parsons, all college students coming from different schools, share a common desire to combat the climate crisis with education.
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The growing oil spill disaster in the Gulf - now the largest spill in U.S. history - is at the top of everyone's concerns these days. Mike Dunmeyer of Ocean Champions talks about turning this disaster into some positive actions.
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Dr Boyd Kynard returns as my guest with tales of sturgeon and other migratory fish beyond New England.
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Dr Boyd Kynard tells how sturgeons and lampreys are truly ocean river dwellers.
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Alanna Mitchell author of Sea Sick will take us on a dive 3,000 feet into a far Tortuga
sinkhole where no one has gone before to discover new life forms, new
chemical compounds, and new insights into how it all comes together on the ocean planet.
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Grab a paddle and pull. Lara Hansen, PhD, will talk of how we can no longer disregard the inevitability of drastic climate change.
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Amanda Leland and Tom Lalley of the Environmental Defense Fund will tell what is wrong with overfishing and how management efforts frequently fail.
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Sarah Chasis and Alison Chase, of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), tell we may achieve a vision of collaborative ocean stewardship and an Executive Order for healthy seas.
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Sherman’s Lagoon syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey and Blue Frontier Campaign president David Helvarg talk about the goals and accomplishments of the National Ocean Policy Task Force.
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Peter Alexander of the Gulf of Maine Restoration and Conservation
Initiative talks about a new effort to tackle the growing
impacts of human activities in the Gulf of Maine.
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Discover how to reduce our carbon footprint, reverse rates of greenhouse gas build-up while creating green jobs and healthier environments with Professor William Moomaw, Senior Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute; and Lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2003.
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Randy Olson, marine biologist and filmmaker talks about “shifting baselines” for ecosystems and his newest film Sizzle.
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Roz Savage rowed 3,158 miles solo across the Pacific Ocean, west from Hawaii, to arrive at the low coral atoll islands of Kiribati, Eastern Pacific. 104 days at sea. Hear Roz describe close encounters with a whale shark, large seabirds and flying squid.
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