No Blue,  No Green...

                            About 80 percent of all life on Earth lives in the ocean. 

The Oceans create over half of the oxygen we breath and make this planet livable for us.

 ... Industrial pollution is diminishing the health of our oceans. According to a report done by Greenpeace International, the key threats people pose on the fate of our global oceans are: industrial fishing, deadly by-catch, unfair industrial fisheries, unsustainable aquacultures, industrial pollution, and global warming.

http://LinkTV.org/oceans
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Finally... we know why the whales are beaching: Read Article 

Tell Big Oil to Stop the Lies

Greenpeace exposed a secret oil industry plan to organise fake rallies against US climate legislation, and to exaggerate concern over the cost of action on climate change. The plan, stated in a leaked internal memo from the API (American Petroleum Institute) shows that they are reverting back to old tricks - spreading misinformation about climate change and pressing politicians towards inaction.

While Shell Oil have said they won’t participate in this plan - they still give money to the API which continues to lobby the US Government using deceptive tactics.

Climate protection policy is needed urgently. Politicians should listen to climate scientists and the people - not big corporations with vested interests. The API is threatening our future, and our children’s future with their lies.

We need you to tell the oil industry to come clean and support real climate action.

The following letter will be sent to the CEOs of: BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon, General Electric, Halliburton, Shell and Petrobras.

( Click here to auto create letter )

 then check your confirmation email

"Dead ocean, dead planet"...

The Greenpeace Defending our Oceans campaign sets out to protect and preserve our oceans now and for the future by setting aside swathes of the global oceans from exploitation and controllable human pressure, allowing these areas the respite they so desperately need for recovery.

http://Greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans

Philippe Cousteau, is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father and grandfather through EarthEcho International, the non-profit organization he founded with his sister and mother and of which he serves as CEO.  Philippe serves on the Board of Directors of The Ocean Conservancy, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, and the National Environmental Education Foundation, as well as the Advisory Board of Discovery Communications Inc.'s Planet Green and is a member of the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Initiative Council. 

Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname "the other carbon problem." As they do so, the oceans become more acidic with terrible consequences. 

Who cares you might ask? Well, we all should because simply put, ocean acidification could spell the end of oceans as we know them. Since oceans are the life support system of our planet, regulating the climate, providing most of our oxygen and feeding over a billion people; what's bad for oceans is bad for us, very bad. 

I wrote earlier that the last 50 yrs have seen the greatest amount of damage to our environment. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is the next 50 that will define the course of human history and decide our fate. If we are to build the just and sustainable world we all dream of we must act now. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "we have no time for the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." The next 50, those are our years and we have the power to change course, to stop our abuse of this planet, to fight for clean energy, healthy food, and the protection and restoration of nature. Only then will we be able to pass on to our children the hope of a better world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philippe-cousteau

Special thanks to Elliott Norse, John Guinotte and Lance Morgan of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) for their support and research.

Learn more all month long as my sister Alexandra and I co-host the exciting programming event BLUE AUGUST on Planet Green Channel which includes a special world premiere of the documentary Acid Test, hosted by Sigourney Weaver who explores ocean acidification and what can be done about it at 10:30PM ET/PT on August 12. To learn more about BLUE AUGUST,

visit  http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/blue-august/blue-august-videos.html

Follow Philippe Cousteau on Twitter: www.twitter.com/pcousteau

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