by Meg | Jan 3, 2014 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
This is a call to action for all Portlanders! Go download our restaurant recruitment cards and start leaving them at all your favorite seafood restaurants. Our goal is to get 10 new restaurants on board by the end of May!! . . . Maybe you all can make it 50 or 100!...
by ddishman | Nov 16, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, grass roots, Science, wildlife
Staff scientist Diana with some of her friends in the town of Salvacion, in the rural Philippine municipality of Busuanga We wanted to take a break from the wildlife today to remember that there is no conservation without a community of support. If you’ve been...
by Meg | Nov 1, 2013 | Conservation, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
“Sustainability is complicated, but dinner is a reality that we all very much understand.”
– Barton Seaver, Sustainability Fellow in Residence, New England Aquarium The oceans have changed more in the last 30 years than in all of human history. Decades of intense...
by Meg | Aug 20, 2013 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
If any of you picked up a copy of the Oregonian this weekend you may have seen an interesting article on linking consumers (that’s you) to the people who fish their seafood (that’s the local fisherman catching crabs in Manzanita). The app is called...
by Meg | Aug 5, 2013 | Environmental Impact, Science
Good progress was made on developing a prospectus for the independent field study involving macrofungi. However, I’m learning in science and through this internship that there is always room for improvement (especially as research projects develop). After...
by Meg | Jul 14, 2013 | Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Science, Sustainable seafood
Farming seafood holds great promise as a solution to the ever-increasing pressures on our ocean resources. And guess what? Seafood Watch’s “The State of Seafood Report” found that humans will soon eat more seafood from farms than from the oceans. ...
