SustainableSeas's Blog (8)

I've been a bit remiss the past few months in attending to The Sea Suite. My missing persons work, combined with family and job responsibilities and more than a bit of emotional turmoil in the second half of 2009, forced some important choices -- and also provided some much-needed motivation. Through it all, I have been having conversations with activists, scientists and entrepreneurs and have come away more convinced than ever tha… Continue

Business Lessons From the Spiny Dogfish Crisis for one is opportunity for another. Commercial fisherman and the fish-eating public exploited an abundant resource (the Atlantic cod) to near extinction, and the dogfish raced in to fill the niche thus opened up. The cod's (and cod fishermen's) crisis created opportunities for the dogfish and for fishermen in other parts of the world who… Continue

Turn Old Oil Rigs Into Eco-Friendly Resorts? Approximately 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico are set to be decommissioned within the next century. Instead of blowing them up at a cost of millions of dollars and lots of sea life, how about turning these rigs into exclusive, self-sufficient eco-friendly resorts? Community-Supported Fisheries: Now, THAT'S What I'm Talking About! Community-supported fisheries - an emerging trend analagous to community-supported agriculture - offers… Continue

In keeping with the spirit of OurWorld, I have launched a new blog called The Sea Suite (www.seasuite.blogspot.com) as a place to discuss in depth the business issues and approaches that will help save our oceans, which are truly in crisis. I hope everyone at OurWorld will take a few minutes to check it out and, if it proves interesting, sign up to receive updates. I am not leaving OurWorld...just branching out. I hope the relationsh… Continue

The Oceans are like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. As long as it was alive it laid a golden egg each day but then the greedy farmer decided to kill it to get all the gold inside and found nothing and the Goose laid no more golden eggs because it was dead.

For centuries, the oceans have fed humankind. But in the last century, human greed has raped and pillaged oceanic eco-systems remorsefully with an ecological ignorance that is staggeringly insane.

I don't eat fish because I a… Continue

I'm finding Twitter to be a good place for connecting with people concerned about sustainable seafood. If you're interested in joining the conversation, please follow me @SustainableSea and use the hashtag #SustainSea. Continue

Bottom Feeder was the book that opened my eyes to the importance of ethical seafood consumption. Here is an interview with the author, Taras Grescoe, in which he spells out the problems associated with unsustainably sourced seafood and some of the things you and I can do about it.

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Full Disclosure: SustainableSeas is also known as Jeff on OurWorld - I just found that the amount of posts I've been doing on the topic of marine ecology and sustainable seafood consumption was beginning to warrant some differentiation from the rest of my posts in the community - so, this is the name under which I will be doing my periodic "Sustainable Seafood Updates", as well as other posts to build awareness and promote solutions to the massive destruction to our oceans caused by our i… Continue