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OCEAN 50

Lucy Hughes, a student at the University of Sussex, has received the prestigious James Dyson Award for designing a plastic alternative made out a fish waste.

Lucy Hughes, a student at the University of Sussex, has received the prestigious James Dyson Award for designing a plastic alternative made out a fish waste.

Editor’s Comments:

This 50th Issue of OCEAN commemorates an idea I had ten years ago: to create an innovative, environmental e-newsletter, linking us together through our shared challenges. Our readership now reaches about 5,000 readers worldwide. With this hallmark issue of OCEAN 50, I am renewing my commitment to be self-funded, with no advertising. Thank you to our readers, for your continuing support, in sharing our new and newer ideas. Your comments are always welcome. Thank you for reading and sharing OCEAN.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 50 articles

Wind Energy Update

Lobsters and Whales

A Better Oyster

Vertical Kayak Storage

Cape Cod Dead Zone

England Halts Fracking

Flood Zone Communities

Green Roofs for Honeybees

Microplastic Solutions

OCEAN 40

In New York City, the roof of the old Brooklyn Naval Base has been turned into two and a half acres of green rooftop farms

In New York City, the roof of the old Brooklyn Naval Base has been turned into two and a half acres of green rooftop farms

Editor’s Comments:

Our first issue of OCEAN was published in 2006. This 40th issue begins our 12th year of maintaining our core values of creating an advertising free, educational platform for environmental issues. OCEAN 40 investigates an inspirational, multi-acre, “Organic Farm In The Sky”, on huge rooftops in Brooklyn N.Y. We take a new look at defining the term “Bad Egg”. We also explore recent meso-scale firestorm and hurricane events, which will directly and indirectly, impact our lives. And cold shocked FL has had to endure the specter of lizards falling out of trees.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 40 Articles

“Living” shorelines on Martha’s Vinyard

Severe storm in Poland

Salt marsh restoration on Cape Cod

Green roof farms in NYC

Hurricane Harvey & Irma

Air freshener chemicals cause explosion

Insecticide in eggs

California wildfires

Abnormal freeze destroys peach crop in Georgia

OCEAN 38

An “edible water bottle” designed by the Skipping Rocks Lab in London

An “edible water bottle” designed by the Skipping Rocks Lab in London

Editor’s comments:

OCEAN 38 explores an extraordinary concept we all wish we had thought of: Edible water containers. We are also sharing an innovative technology we had never thought of, which grows vegetables from trash. We are continuing to track the Pacific Ocean's incredible thermal energy near Peru and updating our readers on how the neonicitinoid pesticides we were concerned about with Bees, seem to be appearing in some of our drinking water.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor.

Ocean 38 Articles

Carbon capture to enhance vegetable growth

Flooding in Peru

Edible water container

Neonicotinonids found in US drinking water

Conserving water: tips

Drinking seawater

New law in France requiring green roofs