OCEAN 68

Gordon Peabody, OCEAN’s Editor

This 68th issue of OCEAN introduces a very unusual article on “Bio-Receptive Concrete”, on page 7 by Billie Grimshaw, one of Safe Harbor’s summer interns. We also are sharing the extraordinary video of a Whale gobbling a kayaker and introducing an innovative role for mussels; and Liam O’Hara’s micro wind turbine, which is sweeping Europe. OCEAN is the environmental education publication of Safe Harbor, a small interdisciplinary environmental consulting group on Cape Cod. There is no advertising or solicitation in OCEAN, because I wanted to have an environmental publication with no expectations, other than it be shared by friends, with friends. Thank you for your support.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor.

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What’s inside OCEAN 68

What Not to Catch

What are the Odds?

Flexing its Mussels: Nature’s Filter

Gone With the Wind

Don’t Release Your Balloons

Thank you!

Gone in a Flutter: Butterfly Populations on the Decline

Historical Rain Events Are Becoming More Generational

Vanishing Islands: Sea Level Rise Imperils Small Nation

Bioplastics: Turning the Page on Plastic

Bioreceptive Concrete: Living With Urban Moss

OCEAN 43

Why do marine animals eat plastic? Check out article 11 to find out.

Editor’s Comments:

In OCEAN 43, we are proud to share a fascinating idea from the Himalayas and another, “Close to Home” innovative idea for long term coastal erosion management, a hybrid system of living shoreline and ballasted coir fiber. We also find it difficult to imagine Northwest Seafood being able to contain everything they are discovering in them (see Opioids in Northwest Mussels, page 6) and from OCEAN 41 “81 types of drugs and chemicals found in Puget Sound Salmon”). OCEAN 44 will link this article with the micro-plastics being found in Mussels. Plastics are not going away and according to OCEAN Researcher Brigid McKenna, (page 6) when consumed by sea birds, they tragically cannot be digested. Oh, and now, micro plastics have been discovered in our drinking water. (page 3).

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 43 Articles

Salmon in Washington

Contaminated drinking water

Gulf oil spill cleanup

Opioids in mussels

Hawaii protects coral reefs

Eating packaging

Dangerous VOC’s without airflow

Clean water: manmade glaciers

Herring River Estuary restoration

Seaweed as cow feed

Why marine animals eat plastic

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