ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales are threatened by oil drilling and exploration, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Native Village of Chickaloon, Center for Water Advocacy and Center for Biological Diversity. The suit challenges a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service to Apache Alaska Corporation to allow oil and gas [...]

I found out about United By Blue while roaming the net looking for Oceanminded sites. I am a big believer that things get done the right way when businesses tackle directly an environmental issue rather than just giving part of their profits to a non profit. I borrow this idea from Richard Branson and his great book “Screw Business As [...]

Coral Reef Report Further reading on the matter check out the center for biological diversity website Even though this report is pretty bleak it is never too late NOAA Invites Comment on Coral Status Review Report and Draft Management Report go to this website and see how you can help

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While we abuse every square inch of our beautiful Oceans they in turn keep giving. Reading more and more about algae based biofuel I realize that this might really well be a good alternative to our retarded ways (read polluting, overpaying and going to war for crude oil). I am very well aware that we will need,not just one, but [...]

After a year online a great steady grow,Oceanminds although still a small fish is now swimming in the big blue ocean. I never wanted to bug peeps with annoying flashing ads, I find them very annoying when I surf the interweb and figured I did not want to expose your poor brain to yet more ads while getting your Ocean News. OM [...]

It is called an Incubator, a place where you grow and nurture things. The live kind of things. In the Oceanminded world it is a place where we nurture and grow new ideas to efficiently protect the blue that we love so much. The Incubator idea came from reading Sir Richard Branson’s brilliant new book “Screw Business as Usual”. So far the [...]

I got an invite from the good peeps at TheBlu.com this morning. Buzz has been propagating around the interweb about the 3d animation version of our oceanminded planet. Academy award winner, animator extraordinaire Andy Jones (Avatar) is one of the board member of this amazing new online adventure. As we speak beloved Dr. Sylvia Earle jumped onboard the underwater bandwagon [...]