Bandon Public Library

"Ocean Frontiers features on-the-ground reporting from places across the country that are at the forefront of implementing promising new approaches to ocean and coastal management. With Earth's burgeoning populace facing an uncertain future on our beleaguered blue plant, never before have the world's oceans been called upon to serve so many, while suffering so much. But from the troubled waters now rises a new hope - a blossoming brand of stewardship...

[This book] addresses daily choices we can make to restore, preserve, and ultilmatly respect the great seas ... (back cover.).

An examination of the issues around protecting Oregon's marine environment, intended to educate the viewer through interviews with scientists and fishermen; includes "rare underwater images of marine life filmed right off the Oregon coast."--container sleeve.

"This chapter provides background information for the scope, purpose and structure of this book. Here, we introduce the main themes that are explored in the book, and provide information that is common to all of them. We discuss the need for taking a holistic view of threats to the global ocean. We also introduce the background and boundary conditions for the economic analysis of the potential savings that could be accrued by acting now to mitigate...

Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz Cunningham crisscrosses the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our dazzling but endangered...

Explorer, global green leader, and eco-TV host David de Rothschild recounts the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, an innovative and mostly untested sixty-foot catamaran that floats on 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. It was a voyage that took de Rothschild and a five-person crew 10,000 miles from the U.S. to Australia, sailing through rarely traveled, dangerous waters, risking their lives to call attention to our fragile oceans. Their exploration...

This follow-up to Common Ground: Oregon's Ocean, focuses its lens on the rich, diverse marine ecosystems of Oregon. The film features views of Oregon's underwater wildlife and habitats, and includes discussion by state policy makers, local elected officials, marine scientists and fishermen on the need for a network of marine reserves and marine protected areas in Oregon's state waters