There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.