Strandbeests on the Shore

SOURCE: CW Uhlinger (bill@nshaonline.org)SUBHEAD: Amazing work, but is this our legacy? Recycled plastic that stalks the shorebreak like living plastic?By Staff on 20 December 2010 for the BBC -(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vt1xp)Image above: Theo Jansen and one of his strandbeests. Stillframe from video below.Wallace and Gromit explore the wonders of the natural world and look at

Sea Water Farming

SUBHEAD: Stark contrast to industrial aquaculture, where they throw cheap energy on unsustainable systems to maximize profit.By Oyvind Holmstad on 30 March 2011 in Permaculture RI - (http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/30/sea-water-farming/#more-5369)Image above: Closed loop shrimp farm where effluent goes to farmland. Still frame from "Eritria - Part 1" vedio below.The two videos below are much

Plastics Now and Forever!

SUBHEAD: The only way to limit the amount of plastics in the oceans is to use less plastics.By Daniel Pargman on 27 March in Life After Oil - (http://life-after-oil.blogspot.com/2010/10/plastics-now-and-forever.html)Image above: Display photo for all plastic Little Tyke's Cozy Coupe II ride-on toy. From (http://www.plioz.com/redesigned-cozy-coupe-is-now-better-than-ever-for-your-kids).This is

Protect Kauai's Resources

SUBHEAD: Kekaha shrimp farm is an environmental and economic disaster for the county.From: In Our Opinon on 27 March 2011 in The Garden Island -(http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_63f6adc6-5842-11e0-97fa-001cc4c03286.html)Image above: Sunrise Capital employee adding chemicals to test pit in March 2010. Photo by Juan Wilson.As if flushing up to 20 million gallons a day of

Radioactivity in Seawater Soars

SUBHEAD: Radioactivity levels in ocean water soars near Fukushima Dai Ichi as U.S. rushes fresh water to nuclear site.By staff on 25 March 2011 on MSNBC -(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42280076/ns/world_news-asiapacific)Image above: Wrecked reactor buildings #3 and #4 at Fukushima Dai Ichi. From (http://liberalironist.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/meltdown-at-fukushima-i-nuclear-power-plant).Japan's

Radioactive seawater enters ocean

SUBHEAD: Radioactive runoff from damaged nuclear fuel rods leaking back into sea from reactor buildings.By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada on 22 march 2011 in Bloomberg - (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-22/nuclear-plant-s-fuel-rods-damaged-leaking-into-sea-tokyo-electric-says.html)[Editor's Note: It has become obvious that sea water pumped over damaged radioactive fuel rods are is making

Winter Begins and Ends

SUBHEAD: A challenging winter bookended by two special moons. Let's hope this spring ends like a lamb.By Juan Wilson on 21 March 2011 for Island Breath - (http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2011/03/winter-begins-and-ends.html)Image above: Full moon with rainbow halo similar to moon observed in the wee hours of 3/20/19. From (http://www.angelvillanueva.com/en/photography/index.htm). The winter of

Oppose extending fish farm leases

SOURCE: Shannon Rudolph (shannonkona@gmail.com)SUBHEAD: Proposed Hawaii bill would increase ocean fish farm leases from 35 years up to 65 years.Image above: Inside fish farm off the coast of the Big Island. From (http://www.noaa.gov/features/resources_0109/images/aqua1.jpg). See also (http://www.lib.noaa.gov/retiredsites/docaqua/reports_noaaresearch/hooarrprept.htm) and (http://eatdrinkbetter.com

Paradise Ranch Rationalization

SUBHEAD: It would seem lessee Bruce Laymon is the perfect stooge for owner plans for high end development at a later date.By Leo Azambuja on 14 February 2011 for The Garden Island - (http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/article_acd6849e-38c6-11e0-84a9-001cc4c002e0.html)[Editor's note: This whole dance of the absurd is not about Bruce Laymon's shyness regards nudity or need for cow pastures -

Namibia Coast National Park

SUBHEAD: Namibia has become the first country to designate its entire coastline a national park.By Mark Rowe on 12 February 2011 for the Telegraph -(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8318338/Whole-coastline-of-Namibia-is-designated-a-national-park.html)Image above: Gate to Skeleton Coast Park. From (http://media.photobucket.com/image/namibia%20coast/Charles_Ansdell/Namibia%202010/

Not Saved from Paradise Ranch

SUBHEAD: As often happens, just when you think you have secured access to a public resource, somebody thinks of another way to screw it up.By Hope Kallie on 19 January 2011 for Free Larson's Beach -(http://freelarsensbeach.com/2011/01/21/new-fenceposts-in-lepeuli-alaloa/) Image above: Fence posts installed on alaloa (traditional Hawaiian lateral bech access right of way). From original artical.We

The Search for BP's Oil

SUBHEAD: Found - Recently deceased coral, oiled crab larvae, bizarre sickness in the phytoplankton and bacteria.By Naomi Klein on 13 January 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/article/157723/search-bps-oil)Image above: Weather research vessel The Weatherbird II at dock. From (http://www.eyefetch.com/image.aspx?ID=986345).Dolphins off the bow!" I race to the front of the WeatherBird

Ocean Swell Wind Generator

SUBHEAD: Using the physics of the blowhole to generate electricity for Hawaii in the ocean.By Henry Curtis on 14 January 2011 in Disappeared News - (http://www.disappearednews.com/2011/01/blowhole-energy.html)Image above: Oceanlinx swell driven generator prototype at Port Kembla, near Sidney, Australia. From (http://www.mywindpowersystem.com/2009/09/ocean-wave-energy-alternative-energy-part-7/).

Small Ocean in Back Yard

SUBHEAD: Simple to build and easy to operate, aquaculture is becoming popular as small-scale sustainable intensive food production.By Glenn Hontz on 13 January 2011 in the Garden Island - (http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/article_997ecef8-1e1b-11e0-a65e-001cc4c03286.html)Image above: Aquaculture in Pago Pago, Samoa. From (http://www.spc.int/aquaculture/index.php?option=com_countries&view=

US and Japan versus whales

SUBHEAD: America proposed Japan reduce whaling in exchange for help cracking down on the Sea Shepherd group.By John Vidal on 6 January 2010 for The Guardian - (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/06/wikileaks-secret-whaling-deal)Image above: Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil after a confrontation with a Japanese whaling ship in 2010. From original article. Japan and the US proposed to

COP16 as Cancun disappears

SUBHEAD: The UN climate conference in Cancun is sited near ground zero of climate change damage in Gulf of Mexico.Image above: Cancun beach erosion undermines hotel seawall in 2009. From (http://www.cancuninfo.net/2009/12/cancun-beach-recovery-update-dec-82009).By Mark Stevenson on 30 November 2010 for Huffington Post - (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/30/un-climate-change-confere_n_790129.

Kekaha Shrimp Farm Hearing

SUBHEAD: We should not endanger the reefs with the risk of another shrimp farm discharge disaster.[Publisher's note: Editor Brad Parson's identified that the period for accepting testimony on this issue was extended to December 3rd 2010. The e-mail address for your comments is cleanwaterbranch@doh.hawaii.gov]Image above: One of several shrimp ponds being prepared in March 2010 for use in Kekaha.

NOAA rebuilding Fisheries

SOURCE: Kenneth Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: NOAA policy encourages catch shares to end overfishing and rebuild fisheries.[Editor's note: Here in Hawaii NOAA would be working with the Western Pacific Regional Management Council. In accordance with full disclosure, I, Juan Wilson am now completing a contract to provide WesPac with maps of traditional ahupuaa and moku areas. A

Noisy Ocean Harming Whales

SUBHEAD: Whales, ae forced to "shout" as ocean's get noisier with human activity.Image above: "Whale Song" by Ansley Nisbet, From (http://cherylktardif.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-whale-song-inspired-artist-aynsley.html).By Stephen Messenger on 14 November 2010 for TreeHugger.org - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/whales-forced-to-shout-as-oceans-get-noisier.php)As anybody who's ever gone to