MAKING WAVES: Monthly News from the W2O
OCEAN OPTIMISM: A World Ocean Radio Multi-Part Series
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy.
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean Radio episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy. In this episode we discuss the need for more funding and energy directed toward the still largely unknown ocean, and the importance of scientific endeavor and observation, and we highlight the General Bathymetric Chart for the Oceans (GEBCO), a #Seabed2030 project dedicated to completing the full mapping of the world ocean by 2030.
In this episode we're talking about the history of oysters, New York Harbor, and the Harbor School—an innovative high school on Governor’s Island in New York City, highlighting their Billion Oyster Project, designed to revive the defunct oyster populations through an ambitious goal of restoring no less than one billion oysters to New York harbor. Harbor School's restorative ecosystem service activities are reconnecting the harbor to the 30 million people living within its vast urban watershed.
In this episode we discuss potential approaches that include protection of resources and new regulations against abuse and irresponsible consumption, and we propose expanding the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a multi-lateral trust fund, to include a new ocean sustainability bank that incentivizes change and lends funds based on sustainability principles and a new definition of return on investment.
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Each year on June 8th we celebrate World Oceans Day, a day set aside to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection. What is Oceans Day meant to do? Is it working? Are the voices and the will of the people translating into a voice for change toward a healthy ocean and a sustainable future?
This week we discuss the work of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance and their "222 Solutions to Heal, Restore and Sustain Our Ocean". We break down the report's accomplishments, results, facts and figures. The full report can be read at impact.soalliance.org.
INDIGENOUS CULTURAL EXCHANGE: W2O IN GREENLAND
In June, in collaboration with the Arctic Futures Institute, the W2O lead a delegation of indigenous artists from Maine to explore living cultural traditions and potential exchange with indigenous artists and institutions in Greenland. Mihku Paul Anderson, poet and artist, and Jennifer Neptune, basket maker and curator of the Penobscot Indian Museum, joined with W2O director Peter Neill and artist Mary Barnes to discuss and develop future collaboration in the form of shared exhibits, workshops, residencies, youth training and experience, and educational programs relating to a shared landscape, history, and cultural tradition for 2023 and beyond. In addition, W2O tested its smartphone interpretation app (available in the App Store), created in 2020, as a information tool for visitors to Kujataa, the southernmost Heritage Site in Greenland. The app is being marketed and distributed by Visit Greenland and other tourist promoters at no cost to users. Future apps were discussed for the Sisimiut Heritage Site and for the National Museum and local cultural environs in Nuuk. The project was supported by two foundations and anonymous donors from Maine.
W2O BOARD MEMBER PROFILE: MATT MURPHY
Our board member highlight this month is Matt Murphy. Matt joined the board of W2O in 2016 and serves as a voice for and liaison to prospective partnerships and collaborations at in Maine. Matt is the long-time editor of WoodenBoat Magazine in coastal Brooklin, Maine, and recently purchased WoodenBoat Publications with a partner. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, Matt spent summers of his youth sailing both contemporary racing sailboats and classic yachts. He is a world traveler, a consultant, a freelance writer, and is author of a number of books including Glass Plates and Wooden Boats: The Yachting Photography of Willard B. Jackson at Marblehead, 1898 - 1937. He lives in downeast Maine with his wife and three children. We are grateful for his wisdom and council.