World Ocean Radio

We are failing to manage successful response to climate challenges on land, along the coast and deep in the ocean; we are failing to manage within the structures that are already in place that might enable solutions. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will assert that we must embrace best management practices now and use new management tools to renovate and build for the future—not by resisting change but by embracing it for the better with renewed certainty and enthusiasm. __________________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

In our capitalist society we can look to the sea for places where we seek wealth through natural resources. We consume oil, gas, energy, coastal wetlands, marine species and minerals at the core of the supply system on which we all rely. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss this system, which does on occasion fail us, if we don't fail it first. And he'll ask, "By what measure might we take to make this different?" and, "What are we doing when we take resources without care or concern for their integrity or longevity simply to benefit ourselves?" _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

Research and scientific inquiry must increase in order for us to best understand the ocean and address its critical problems, and there is a responsibility of researchers and policy organizations to make public recommendations beyond the predictable and limited audience within the scientific community. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that scientists and organizations should advocate through responsible research and discovery in the public forum and will ask, "How long can we reject responsibility for our indifference to the damage to human life and community?" _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

When confronting the challenges to today’s ocean we make passage from micro to macro and return. An instance may become evident on a local level (a red tide, for example, or a fishing conflict) which may in time appear resolved, yet the larger questions remain, requiring a universal explanation beyond the micro-perspective. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss our perceptions of a local problem used as the stimulus for worldwide investigation and creative thinking, codified into responsible policy, reforms of behavior, a new awareness applied through political will into direct action and change where we live. Photo: Local Malagasy Women taking a Participatory Approach to Marine Conservation Management. Andavadoaka, Madagascar. Credit: Anne Furr | Marine Photobank _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

In 1998, Mario Soares, former President of Portugal, organized an Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans, producing a report--"The Ocean, Our Future"--with a set of recommendations for the sustainable ocean which supports the estimate of the influence of a natural system on fundamental social behavior. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system to one with social implications; that our very culture and civilization are at risk, not just the dying fish and poisoned places. “We need...to forge a new ethico-political relationship between humanity and the oceans, a relationship with a political and juridical basis which creates an atmosphere of sharing and solidarity and which provides for a new universalism centered on the knowledge of the oceans; a relationship capable of unifying the citizens of the world under one banner, a common, unique and irreplaceable asset: the sea which all the continents share, and which to a certain extent equalizes them.” ~ Mario Soares _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to seep into the underground aquifer or be distributed via lake and stream. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will remind us that the ocean is at both ends of the water cycle; and essential to the sustainable ocean is the protection and conservation of the vast, fluid passage that each of us on this earth relies upon. _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. More information available at http://www.thew2o.net/world-ocean-radio.

The reports on Rio+20 are in, and they are not good for the ocean. Many experts and activists from around the globe worked hard to formulate serious policy recommendations and priorities, and went to Rio to advocate for inclusion of ocean sustainability in the final report. Many of these hard working individuals and groups left Rio disappointed. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest ways in which we might move beyond Rio+20 and will invite us to mobilize as CITIZENS of the OCEAN in order to begin to demonstrate our commitment through individual responsibility and collective action. Take the CITIZENS of the OCEAN pledge today! http://thew2o.net/content/citizens-ocean _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

For the UN Rio+20 Conference in June, ocean leaders published a declaration intended to inform delegates and to advocate for ocean issues to be included in the conference outcome and the global development agenda for the next two decades. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will outline the seven action items of the declaration in order to share the scope and limits of the concerns being addressed by experts and agencies working on these issues every day. _____________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.

Life's firsts set the standard for our experience and help to define the things that we value and determine what we wish to conserve and sustain. Many of us across the globe have opportunities to derive reward, solace and peace from the ocean: a first sail of the season aboard a small boat, visiting a crowded beach, pilgrims submersed in a sacred river--the ocean provides a source of renewal, quiet reward and communion with Nature. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss his concept of Hydraulic Society and how, if we can understand the direct relationship of the ocean to our most basic requirements for successful living, understanding has the power to help us protect, preserve and value a new water-directed way of living. _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues. Available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.