The Majestic Plastic Bag

"...co-existing with billions of other petroleum species before breaking into ever-tinier plastic pieces."

Ugh.

Wag of our finger, COSTCO

It has come to my attention, thanks to my fellow activists in the Greenpeace network, that Costco continues to stock their freezers with fifteen of the twenty-two red list seafood items flagged by the EPA. Help us take action by writing CEO Jim Sinegal (via this online form) to request that the company stop selling unsustainable seafood starting immediately with orange roughy and Chilean sea bass.

Pollution is Not Sexy

The National Surfrider Foundation commissioned a mock swimsuit calendar to remind everyone that sexy photo shoots on the beach will be a thing of the past if we don't clean up our act. I think they're talking to you, BP. Just saying. What do y'all think?

Sweet Sea Lions

It's video week on the blog, huh?! These Galapagos sea lions are currently on the list of threatened species. Traditionally, wildlife experts have observed them breeding and living on the islands near Equador but since ocean temperatures in Peruvian waters have increased 11 degrees over the past decade, the sea lions have begun setting up colonies outside of their native island chain. Hopefully their new home is also off the beaten path of traffickers and those awful people responsible for the January 2008 massacre. Read more here.

Eat low on the food chain

Sylvia Earle's new book, The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One, recieved the "Colbert Bump" Tuesday night and this interview alone has caused me to re-examine the fish that remain in my own diet. Of course, many of you have seen me whip out my trusty EPA Pocket Seafood Selector at meals and likely chosen the fish or shellfish with the smallest finprint on our oceans and collective environment right alongside me - but perhaps that isn't enough. Check out the stats Sylvia drops on Stephen:



So whattaya say, folks? Can we all commit to choosing fish that are low on the food chain? Vote with our forks?