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Upgrade Morro Bay's Sewage Plant Now!

Daniel Hinerfeld tells the sad and shocking story of the Morro-Bay Cayucos sewage plant that the city refuses to upgrade asap.
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Pacific Environment and Petro-Politics in Russia

Royal Dutch Shell's oil development project on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East is the largest such project in the world, and has wrecked havoc on the fragile marine biodiversity of the region and damaged the way of life of Sakhalin's citizens. The Russian government has recently revoked Shell's permit to work on the project, but that's not the whole story.Pacific Environment's Sara Moore has been to Sakhalin, and tells Betsy what she's seen, who she's talked to, and what she knows about Royal Dutch Shell. LISTEN (12 min)

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Cruise Pollution

A single cruise ship generates as much air pollution as 12,000 cars. One cruise ship of 3,000 guests and crew also plow through 11 tons of garbage per day. And 23 gallons of toxic waste. And 270,000 gallons of bacteria-contaminated graywater. Shall I keep going? No, better to let Gershon Cohen of the Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters tell you, because he is not only an authority on the cruise industry but is also armed with workable solutions to this Titanic-sized problem, such as Alaska's successful state ballot initiative that demanded that Cruise Ships play by the same rules as everyone else. LISTEN (11 min)

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lce Collapse in the Arctic

Last week, as we sipped on cups of cider with family and friends, an ice shelf the size of Manhattan fell into the sea off of Northern Canada. Being that ice shelves, once fallen, tend not to hop back up and reattach themselves, we were left fretting over what such a fall portends. Luke Copland, a bonafide Glaciologist at the University of Ottawa, stopped by to tell us. LISTEN (7 min)

Stefan Forbes: One More Dead Fish

Stefan Forbes talks about his immensely moving documentary One More Dead Fish, the story of fishermen in Nova Scotia who took over five federal buildings to protect their way of life, and the earth's sutainable cycles from industrial fishing and the destructive practice of "bottom trawling."
If you eat fish, or even if you simply value the sustainable cycles that have kept us alive for all time, you must see this film. PART 1 (11 min), PART 2 (7 min)

Greenpeace: Iceland Harpoons Deep-Sea Protection

Greenpeace Ocean Policy Expert Karen Sack says that the final UN agreement on the destructive practice of bottom-trawling "has more loopholes in it than a fisherman's sweater." Find out more about this brutal method here. LISTEN (10 min)

David Helvarg: 50 Ways to Save the Ocean

Surfer, Diver, Environmental Journalist, and President of the Blue Frontier Campaign, David Helvarg talks about his book 50 Ways to Save the Ocean.
LISTEN (11 min)

Julia Whitty about the Fate of the Ocean

Julia Whitty has been making nature documentaries for the past twenty-five years specializing in underwater films. Her story in the March/April issue of Mother Jones is entitled The Fate Of The Ocean :"Our oceans are under attack and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go silent?" LISTEN (12min)
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This is a rerun of our March 11 show.

Saving the Coral Reef

Brian Huse isExecutive Director of the Coral Reef Alliance. He talks about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Monument and the threat of commercial overfishing and global warming. LISTEN (12 min)

The Fate of the Ocean

Julia Whitty has been making nature documentaries for the past twenty-five years specializing in underwater films. Her story in the March/April issue of Mother Jones is entitled The Fate Of The Ocean :"Our oceans are under attack and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go silent?" LISTEN (12min)

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